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120 days of 2025
Posted in Flowers, Garden, Photos, Scotland
Tagged #blogging4life, photo a day, photo diary
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Death by Meetings
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
Turner and the Dragon
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
Posted in DailyCreate, Doodles, DS106
Tagged #blogging4life, #DS106, Daily Create, dragon, St George's Day, Turner
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My blogging journey
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
Posted in #CLMOOC, #rhizo14, #rhizo15, D&G, DailyCreate, DS106, Peer interaction, PhD, Writing
Tagged #blogging4life, #clmooc, #DS106, blogging, community, reflection
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100 days of 2025
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
Violets
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
Antonine Wall: Bearsden Bath House
I’ve driven past the Roman Baths in Bearsden so many times, but yesterday was the first time I’d ever stopped near it. So yesterday, when we went to visit N’s mum in her care home on Roman Rd, we wandered … Continue reading
Posted in Photos, Scotland
Tagged #blogging4life, Antonine Wall, bearsden, Bearsden Bath House, roman
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Honesty
I’ve been thinking about mum a lot this weekend – maybe because it was Mothering Sunday yesterday – although as my mother’s daughter I know better than to call it Mother’s Day and be confused about what the day was … Continue reading
Posted in Family, Flowers, Garden
Tagged #blogging4life, flowers, garden, grief, honesty. mothering sunday
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Starry Night
Today is Vincent van Gogh’s birthday, and the Daily Create asks us to create art appropriate for a birthday card. I began with a sunflower I’d drawn sunflower flickr photo by NomadWarMachine shared under a Creative Commons (BY-NC-SA) license And … Continue reading
Boundaries
Yesterday’s Daily Create was about boundaries, and I was thinking about what my response would be as I was walking up to a Uni meeting yesterday morning. First, as I got off the bus and started walking up the path, … Continue reading
Posted in DailyCreate, DS106, Photos, Scotland, University
Tagged #blogging4life, Boundaries, Glasgow University, Kelvingrove
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