Monthly Archives: October 2024

Silent Sunday

“299 Autumn Leaves” flickr photo by NomadWarMachine shared under a Creative Commons (BY-NC-SA) license

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Use more cats!

“Bribery” flickr photo by NomadWarMachine shared under a Creative Commons (BY-NC-SA) license Today in the Active Learning Network CPD session Isobel asks us to reflect on the sessions. The activity that I enjoyed the most was the session by Mark … Continue reading

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Predicate Calculus

Today’s Daily Create asks us to “write a poem formatted like computer code about natural networks”. As I started to think about how to do this, I wondered if a GenAI programme might help with philosophical logic, so I asked … Continue reading

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Silent Sunday

“291 Mugdock” flickr photo by NomadWarMachine shared under a Creative Commons (BY-NC-SA) license

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Knightswood Pond

Today’s Daily Create asks for a time lapse poem “Knightswood pond” flickr photo by NomadWarMachine shared under a Creative Commons (BY-NC-SA) license

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Weather forecast

Today’s Daily Create asks for a poem about weather forecasts. I look at many weather maps of Scotland, then write a haiku. October forecast: Rain, followed by rain, then rain Good weather for ducks “Ducks” flickr photo by NomadWarMachine shared under … Continue reading

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Eagles and Doves

Today’s Daily Create asks us to Look out of your actual window and then open a nature webcam from somewhere in the world. (here is the home of nature webcams via the US National Park Service) Write a poem that bridges … Continue reading

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Ducks and Fuchsias

I don’t believe in God, the afterlife, or supernatural forces. I do believe in coincidence, in seeing patterns in nature and finding meaning when you look for it. Mum loved ducks – there are ducks throughout her house. Pictures of … Continue reading

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Ode to Father Time

Today’s Daily Create is to write an ode to Father Time O silent keeper of all things, You move unseen through shadows cast, With footsteps soft, yet never still. The stars align, the tides obey, All yield to you—relentless, vast. … Continue reading

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Mum

“Take something to remind you of her”, they suggest. “I already have”, I say. In the cookbooks you gave me, the marks of my cooking throughout their pages, In the jugs and vases dotted around the house, the result of … Continue reading

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