I am writing this at the start of the second week in 2010. Over the past week the press, blogs and online chats have been full of resolutions and advice on how to lose weight/stop smoking/ change jobs…the usual stuff.
Also in the last week in the UK we have been hit by the worst winter [...]
In the most recent Metasaga ( more info at the foot of this post) we led a group round the National Gallery of Scotland to look for metaphors in the paintings.
Lesley ( my co-guide) and I had chosen a number of stops between us for questions. The final one was mine. It is a painting by Italian [...]
I was reading the Time Out Guide book I had for my trip to Stockholm at the weekend on the flight home as I had to fill a couple of hours and not surprisingly there were no English lanuage newspapers at the airport ( which is a fact not a complaint – see below on [...]
I was surprised and really touched to read this post last week. Kaye’s comments made me smile. My instinct was to go down the “it was nothing” route but taking a moment to reflect if Kaye says that’s what I did how discourteous of me would it be to disagree?
Then I had a conversation with a [...]
Over several years I have been involved in university programmes that build workplace learning into the coursework where the students are asked to apply their academic learning to real life situations and reflect and report on what happens. I love reading this kind of submission. The stories are often full of experiences and outcomes that [...]
