Blaugust 2026

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As today is the last day of my holidays I’ve been trying to suck every last minute of my freedom – but the heavy rain this afternoon thwarted my plans for one last walk and confined me to the house. As I mooched around my various social media haunts I remembered that I’d seen a link to sign up for Blaugust 2026, so here’s my intro post. In case you don’t know:

Blaugust is a month-long event that takes place each August which focuses on blogging primarily and has started to include other forms of serialized content over the last several years. The goal is to stoke the fires of creativity and allow bloggers and other content creators to mingle in a shared community while pushing each other to post more regularly. Above all the goal of Blaugust has always been to prove to folks that they can in fact sit down every day and create something fresh and then share it with the world.

Well, I do like a daily challenge – and recently I’ve been blogging some of my Daily Creates here, but sometimes not till a couple of days later and sometimes not at all. So my intention for August 2026 is to complete the TDC each day in a way that I’ll be happy posting it to my blog and sharing it with the Blaugust community – and hopefully some other Ds106ers will also be joining in.

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A porcupine amongst the flowers

A quick doodle for today’s TDC. We were given a doodle to complete. Here’s mine.

Porcupine and flowers
Porcupine and flowers flickr photo by NomadWarMachine shared under a Creative Commons (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0) license

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Sea Urchin Hat

Today’s TDC asks us to make a hat for a sea urchin. I found a sea urchin on Flickr and added a hat via powerpoint online images.

Sea Urchin Cowboy
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Wikipedia Seismograph

Today’s TDC sends us to the Wikipedia Seismograph and asks us to share what we do there. I chose to compare graphs for pages of 4 sea birds.

Sea birds
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HOMAGO

Today’s TDC asks us to:

Tell, show, what a culture of belonging looks like

Since about 2016, when I was looking at CLMOOC for my PhD, I’ve had this sketch on my wall

HOMAGO
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This takes the HOMAGO from Mimi Ito and maps it onto the 3Cs model from sociology of religion – Community, or who we are; Cultus, or what we do; Creed, or what we believe. I talk a bit more about it here.

DS106 and the TDC exemplify this for me – it’s about people working out in the open, practicing what they preach and welcoming others who share their values.

It’s not about charging people to join Zoom calls or gated communities.

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Silent Sunday

Phoenix United Mine
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Happy moment

Mum loved ducks, and they still remind me of her. I take pics of them and smile as I remember her. Yesterday we stopped on the way home at Tebay for a cuppa and watched the duckings. Happy moments for today’s TDC.

Ducklings at Tebay
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Cinquain

A cinquain is a five-line poem. Line one has one word and is the title. Line two describes the title in two words. Line three uses three words to express action. Line four uses four words to express a feeling. Line five uses one word that restates the title. Here’s mine for TDC5305

Hot
So hot
Very, very hot
This is too hot
Melting!

Sunset
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Outdoor Art

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Art Face
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Frogs at Tintagel

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