Tag Archives: #blogging4life

Unparalleled Misalignments

Posted on 29th May 2025 by NomadWarMachine

An excellent Daily Create today: Unparalleled Misalignments are “pairs of non-synonymous phrases where the words in one phrase are each synonyms of the words in the other.” Did you see what we did there in the title of today’s Daily … Continue reading →

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The seven stages of writing

Posted on 27th May 2025 by NomadWarMachine

Biting my truant pen, beating myself for spite, “Fool,” said my Muse to me, “look in thy heart, and write.” Sir Philip Sidney, Astrophil and Stella. I used to agonise over how I wrote, because it seemed to be so … Continue reading →

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Castle in the Sky

Posted on 9th May 2025 by NomadWarMachine

Today’s Daily Create asks us to: Design your version of a castle in the sky. Make a drawing or an image of your castle in the sky (note that make does not mean “make a google search for someone else’s image”) I found a … Continue reading →

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Ross Priory

Posted on 3rd May 2025 by NomadWarMachine

After a busy few months at work it was lovely to get away this week. Niall booked the Lochside Cottage at Ross Priory for a few days and we drove up after lunch on Monday. An oyster catcher was watching … Continue reading →

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120 days of 2025

Posted on 1st May 2025 by NomadWarMachine

Another month gone, another 30 photos.  Here’s the 120 days of 2025 so far

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Death by Meetings

Posted on 25th April 2025 by NomadWarMachine

Busy work flickr photo by NomadWarMachine shared under a Creative Commons (BY-NC-SA) license My institution has an obsession with meetings. People humble brag about how busy they are, counting the amount of meetings in their calendars as evidence of their … Continue reading →

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Turner and the Dragon

Posted on 23rd April 2025 by NomadWarMachine

Today is St George’s Day, and today’s Daily Create celebrates that and asks us to “make some art to celebrate this auspicious day”. April 23rd is also Turner’s birthday, and I wanted to make something to mix these two days … Continue reading →

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My blogging journey

Posted on 16th April 2025 by NomadWarMachine

I started my blog on 17th July 2012, originally as a WordPress.com hosted site. I blogged sporadically about conferences I’d attended, bits of philosophy that interested me (at the time I was a tutor in Philosophy as well as a … Continue reading →

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100 days of 2025

Posted on 10th April 2025 by NomadWarMachine

One hundred days, a photo a day. Taking a daily photo reminds me to stop and look at my surroundings. Sometimes I take a bunch of photos and find it hard to choose just one, other days I only remember … Continue reading →

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Violets

Posted on 9th April 2025 by NomadWarMachine

Violets flickr photo by NomadWarMachine shared under a Creative Commons (BY-NC-SA) license Violets always remind me of my mother in law Morag. They used to grow all over her garden in Bearsden and her gardener would weed them out. Morag … Continue reading →

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