Mar 22
I was helping my daughter with her homework tonight. We did some reading and some very simple sums. In both cases, I noted that if she didn’t know something, there was a method of working it out. In the case of reading, she can use phonics and letter/sound recognition to work out a word. With sums, she could use a number line (or her fingers). In essence, there...
Read MoreMar 14
I pre-ordered the A Serious Man Blu-Ray as soon as it was available. Having seen it in the cinema I was very keen to watch it again and, amazingly, it arrived two days before the announced release date. Being a big Coens fan, I’m never really going to have a bad word to say but unlike, say, Intolerable Cruelty or The Ladykillers, I only have the most excellent...
Read MoreMar 14
Spent a pleasant couple of hours in the Botanic Gardens yesterday on a very ( too ) sunny morning. I was there to take photos of people but snapped a few other things as I wandered around. Here are a few of the images I grabbed, nothing spectacular, bit too bright. This little guy was giving it big licks and, like all good birds, he did it in good light and stayed...
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