The invigorating drastic precis
I'm off to a teach-meet of the Computer Education Society of Ireland tomorrow in Thurles - see http://www.cesi.ie. CESI was founded in the 1970s, and is mainly second level teachers but a good...
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IMG_0046
IMG_0046Originally uploaded by imogenbertinThis is the terrace at the back of my house photographed from the sea side (looking North). Every garden needs a comfortable place to sit with a good view...
View ArticleSometimes I wish I'd behaved myself and become a neuroscientist...
One of my little tasks for the Guillain-Barre syndrome support group is to keep an eye on any new GBS-related research via Trinity's pubcrawler service, which emails me a link to my search results on...
View ArticleThe snail in Dunnes stores
There's a lovely Indian checkout lady in my local Dunnes. This evening my worlds had a little collision when she noticed a snail on the checkout. I had to quickly put it in my shopping bag and explain...
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Mme Zephirine Drouhin and Mr Alister Stella Grey
Two of my favourite roses, both sourced from David Austin. I wish I knew the origin of ZD - rose-wise, she's a Bourbon, but what about the person the rose is named after?A jolly useful beautiful dark...
View ArticlePoster design, creativity and anti-rain dances
I recently did my first pecha-kucha presentation at the NUIG CELT conference on creativity. I enjoyed it hugely and was delighted to get a good response on the day, and afterwards by email. I will put...
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Bones, buildings and edging
I've just finished a most enjoyable renovation of a beautiful old garden in Douglas. You can see a complete photo album on Flickr but I've added a few pictures here too. This garden has fantastic...
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Ice, shavings and the importance of dinner
Oh, the joy of a good old-fashioned meeting over a proper dinner table! On your bike, social media - when you're kicking off a project there is nothing to beat what Ursula Huws used to call, in a...
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Work is life: colleagues who make it worth living!
Yesterday I went to the retirement gathering for Michael Dunne, UCC Buildings and Estates. Michael is one of those people you meet who make life worth living. Next time you're frustrated, bored or...
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Roberts Cove Vintage - great day!
This is the charity plant stall I did for the Roberts Cove Vintage stall yesterday. It was a lovely day - not sunny, but so clear you could see all the way to the Marathon gas rigs which are 27 miles...
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What's the point of maths?
I was listening to a thought-provoking iTunes-U last week: What is science for? (John Sulston, John Harris and comments from Richard Dawkins, 2008). iTunes-U is full of fantastic, free material for the...
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Versions of success
Does success mean different things to introverts and extroverts? Are introverts fascinated by creating things and ideas for their intrinsic value, while extroverts value positive fuzzies from others...
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What if the Internet stopped?
At the start of the current New Media course, one of the students asked a fundamental question: why do we feel that we need to keep up with what's online? I've been pondering, and came up with a few...
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Useful stuff
At last I'm starting to get time to catch up with myself... Here's some new free resources.The social media mixed level short course is now up at the Open University's Moodle Projectspace. If you want...
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In the Bleak Midwinter
I've had a troubled relationship with Britten since a lighting boom fell on my head during an amateur performance of Noah's Flood in the local Catholic church when I was nine. Then my mother made me...
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Spring Sunday
I've posted some "spring has sprung" photos from my garden to Flickr here:http://www.flickr.com/photos/7723107@N07/sets/72157626038418264/I think this is Camellia sasanqua 'Mine no Yuki' but I can't...
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Of obelisks and libraries
I was delighted to see pink ice-cream rose support obelisks on Gardener's World a couple of nights ago - I just did a slightly more sober black one for this lovely Sunday's Well garden. They are great...
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Awayday at Stam's Bamboo Nursery, Lismore
I spent a lovely hour at Peter Stam's bamboo nursery near Lismore today, collecting a couple of Fargesia murielae plants. Peter kindly showed me around and introduced me to various specimens I'd never...
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Some social media back-to-school tips...
Just cranking up to thinking about autumn courses so I thought I'd mention a few nice bits and bobs I've found over the summer.If you haven't come across http://unbounce.com/ and you are doing anything...
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Article 5
I’m feeling guilty because I set my digital marketing students a blogging assignment this week, yet my own blog badly needed updating… so I thought I would mention some of the lovely stuff that I am...
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