It is a mixture of personal anecdotes, observations, skites about my son, Thomas and sometimes some things vaguely intelligent. For much more intelligent comments on education, social software and the like check out the blogs of my colleagues at www.core-ed.net
A walk through Ecchinswell’s St Lawrence churchyard, with the smell of the yew trees reminded me of this poem-
The curfew tolls the knell of parting day,
The lowing herd winds slowly o’er the lea,
The ploughman homeward plods his weary way,
And leaves the world to darkness and to me.
Now fades the glimmering landscape on [...]
Stopped on way to Devon to show Derek one of the ancient sights of the South of England. I tried to find that pasasge from Tess of the D’Urbervilles, that so eloquently describes the mystique of Stonehenge, but could not find it so have made do with these more earthy comments from Bill Bryson.
“I know [...]
Friend Sonia reminded me of this poem by the wonderful author Maya Angelou
A WOMAN SHOULD HAVE .
enough
money within her control to move out
and rent a place of her own,
even if she never wants to or needs to…
A WOMAN SHOULD HAVE .
something
perfect to wear if the employer,
or date of her dreams
wants to see her [...]
One of the keynote speakers today was Tom Kelley, general manager of IDEO and author of the best-seller The Art of Innovation. IDEO have worked with Apple transferring a number of their ideas into products, such as the Apple mouse and Palm V,
The focus of his talk was on how to use innovation to transform [...]
Had I the heavens’ embroidered cloths,
Enwrought with golden and silver light,
The blue and the dim and the dark cloths
Of night and light and the half light,
I would spread the cloths under your feet:
But I, being poor, have only my dreams;
I have spread my dreams under your feet;
Tread softly because you tread on my dreams.
W.B. Yeats (1865–1939)
from [...]
We celebrated the new year with SingStar at friends Juanita and Philip’s house. We tried Singstar Abba, 80s and Rock Legends, but to no avail we were pretty useless at all of them.. not helped by the fact that the Reddish famaily can all sing! Although I think it would be safe to say that [...]
This book was written by fellow New Jerseyite and long-term Springsteen friend Robert Santelli and was written with the full co-operation of the band. The result is this fully illustrated informal biography combines rare photographs with 30 removable facsimiles of E Street memorabilia, including Bruce Springsteen’s first business card and hand-written set list, and even [...]
It is almost Spring and flowers have started to appear everywhere- bright yellow daffodils, lovely pink blossom and little bluebells starting to show through in the park. It reminded me of this poem by Jessica Maness, so for all of you a flower…
I will give you the flower of song and dance
I will give you [...]
