via Brainpickings, Bertrand Russell’s ten commandments of teaching: Perhaps the essence of the Liberal outlook could be summed up in a new decalogue, not intended to replace the old one but only to supplement it. The Ten Commandments that, as … Continue reading
A poem by Baron Wormser What a person desires in life is a properly boiled egg.This isn’t as easy as it seems.There must be gas and a stove, the gas requires pipelines, mastodon drills, banks that dispense the lozenge of capital.There must be … Continue reading
I was interested in the following quote from Lynda Gratton from London Business School, in a Lunch with the FT Interview (several weeks ago). Not much more comment to make on it but it feels, intuitively, like a nice way … Continue reading
A while back Transport for London ran a neat little film which challenged viewers to spot something obvious but easily missed – a bear walking through the middle of a set of basketball players. The point being that cyclists are … Continue reading
This book is a perfect little addition to that pile of books next to the toilet which require little concentration but demands something absorbing (if not also absorbent): Indexed. It joins that ever-growing section of the bookshop which is 'Books … Continue reading
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Go here (Priory Bay, Isle of Wight) Take on of these Get the kids one of these And you have yourself a proper British seaside holiday…til the end of July.
Picture cred You learn something new everyday. Today, I learned a new word – DEMONYM. Sounds ghoulish but is actually “a word that denotes the members of a people or the inhabitants of a place”, according to this definition. The … Continue reading
Well, I'm not in my salad days – "…My salad days, / When I was green in judgment, cold in blood…" – but my children are and looking back on the last, long, hot days this phrase came to mind. How … Continue reading
So this is where all the Rubik’s Cubes went… via curate
On a recent trip to Laytown, a large sandy beach north of Dublin, I stumbled upon a group of friendly, hardy and enthusiastic land yachters. There were some very sleek and fast looking models. And there were a number of … Continue reading
Saying goodbye to my five year old son this morning, I asked what he wanted from America by way of a present (to assuage my guilt at being away for 10 days). I loved his answer (I use the word … Continue reading
Call me old fashioned and rather English but there’s something wonderful about the change of seasons and a sense of anticipation in getting out the woollies for another autumn / winter. Yesterday evening in Ireland was the first with that … Continue reading