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The Shepherd’s Hut by Tim Winton #review and my #reading in March

Posted by | Published on April 1, 2018

You’re a kid, you don’t know anything. Mum said school mighta been different for me if I only give a damn. Maybe it was wasted […] 

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#Essays #TheRubofTime #FeelFree #review and my #reading in February

Posted by | Published on February 25, 2018

The day-to-day business of compiling a novel often seems to consist of nothing but decisions – decisions, decisions, decisions. Should this paragraph go here? Or […] 

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Lost Connections by Johann Hari #review and my #reading in January

Posted by | Published on January 28, 2018

“We have been systematically misinformed about what depression and anxiety are.”                              […] 

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George Orwell and William Shakespeare

Posted by | Published on January 18, 2018

George Orwell aka Eric Blair (1903-50) is now clearly second only to Shakespeare in the pantheon of English literary giants. In our current contemporary context, […] 

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#MyHouseofSky #JABaker #review and my #reading in December

Posted by | Published on December 19, 2017

“There is no mysterious essence we can call a ‘place’. Place is change. It is motion killed by the mind, and preserved in the amber […] 

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Dæmon Voices #review and my #reading in November

Posted by | Published on November 25, 2017

Philip Pullman’s Dæmon Voices – Essays on Storytelling is pleasurable reading for English teachers, students, writers and anyone who loves stories. Best known for the […] 

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La Belle Sauvage #BookofDust #review and my #reading in October

Posted by | Published on October 29, 2017

“But the meaning of a book is never just what the author thinks it is. It’s a great mistake to rely on the author to […] 

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#Autumn #TropicofCancer #review and my #reading in August

Posted by | Published on August 27, 2017

I want to show you our world as it is now: the door, the floor, the water tap and the sink, the garden chair close […] 

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#STC1984 #Orwell A New Adaptation by Icke & MacMillan #review and my #reading in July

Posted by | Published on July 29, 2017

“I think we’ve ended up being incredibly faithful to the book.” Duncan MacMillan George Orwell’s last novel, published in 1949, was not expected to have […] 

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#Churchill and #Orwell: The Fight for Freedom #review and my #reading in June

Posted by | Published on July 2, 2017

“The Struggle to see things as they are is perhaps the fundamental driver of Western civilisation. There is a long direct line from Aristotle and […] 

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Posted in Digital life, Education, Professional development, Uncategorized

Cost shock puts school PCs at risk in the SMH today is another example of common knowledge being reported as if it is news. Staff are quite rightly concerned about what it all means […] 

The #hashtag and the #citizen: living with #paradox  →

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We become what we behold. We shape our tools and then our tools shape us.                                […] 

La Belle Sauvage #BookofDust #review and my #reading in October  →

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“But the meaning of a book is never just what the author thinks it is. It’s a great mistake to rely on the author to tell you what the meaning […] 

Workflow II: ShutterSnitch, Revel & Eye-Fi on my iPad  →

Posted in Digital life, Featured, Photography

Since posting Workflow: X100s and the iPad experimentation has led to a number of initial decisions about processes and tools. Although, not completely happy with all aspects of what follows, I […] 

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