December Dailies writing prompts. #3 Red
Today’s prompt is colour. Take a picture, write a haiku, free write, write a blog post, create a doodle, whatever your creative inclination is – around the colour red
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Bloom
What does bloom mean for me? I love to have flowers in the house, but I have a brown thumb and am totally incapable of growing them for myself. It’s also difficult to keep a plant alive when one is away a lot. Bloom at the moment also means the
December Dailies writing prompts. #2 Bloom
Bloom can mean many things, but most importantly flowers! I love flowers. A bunch of flowers is one of my favourite gifts to receive. Bloom
December Dailies writing prompts. #1 Storm
To kickstart my writing this December, I’m going to return to a daily writing practice, and to help me get started there’s a prompt each day. I may or may not share my response here in the blog. Today I’ll start with a topical: Storm Other sources for inspiration
Writing prompts, creative prompts, art prompts and creative challenges
I often find myself with a spare ten, twenty, thirty minutes and want to get down to some writing, but it takes me all my time to think of a subject. I once created a whole blog full of writing prompts, but it seems to have disappeared into the ether,
Word for 2021
My word for 2021 is CREDO It’s an acronym: C = creativity. I’m starting with some creativity challenges, including writing. In 2020 I felt blocked. So I’m going to flex my writing (or creative) “muscles” every day. And because that makes me feel good, I’ll do it as early in
We are the very model of a modern university
We are the very model of a modern university
We come from many disciplines and represent diversity
We know the kings of England, and we order books historical
And digital resources, too, in order categorical
We’re very well acquainted, too, with matters mathematical,
We understand equations, both the simple and quadratical,
We teach and offer services financial and professional
About our student outcomes we are more or less obsessional
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We’re very good at teaching and supporting learners earnestly
Yet due to UUK and their new pension scheme perversity
We face retirement poverty and monet’ry adversity
We are the very model of a modern university
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We spend our time in labs elucidating vital science
Yet today we’re here on picket lines expressing our defiance
Now you’d think the brightest minds deserve the best in actuarial
But when I see the calculations they just make me very ill
We’ve come from health and geography, the arts and sociology
The least that USS can do is offer an apology
To researchers and admin staff, to IT and careers folk
It seems that UUK see us as little more than just a joke
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You’d think that our hard work would earn us thanks and good intentions
But it seems our dedication now is hardly worth a mention, so
We face retirement poverty and monet’ry adversity
What IS the very model of a modern university?
17 good things from 2017
Sometimes it can seem like a year is nothing but bad, and 2017 was a bit of a difficult one in many ways, not just for me but for many around me. So I took some time to reflect on my year and make a list of 17 things that
Cognitive shuffle and a reason to talk nonsense
I was intrigued by Oliver Burkeman’s column in the Guardian from last month about insomnia: Shuffle your thoughts and sleep in which he reports on the Canadian cognitive scientist Luc Beaudoin’s newly invented cure for insomnia, which he calls the “cognitive shuffle”. Counting sheep and similar ways to cope with
Twenty years on the Internet
Today is the 20th anniversary of my first steps on the Internet. On 27th November 1995 I joined the Internet, by subscribing to Pipex Dial. My username was ga42 and it cost £15 plus VAT for a month’s dial-up internet. I know this because I found the bill earlier this