I love a good day out and I’m always interested to find new places to take the boy. I had very little in the way of expectations when I went to Brooklands the other day, besides the fact that they had a Concorde. I was very happy to discover that it was filled with interesting […]
Read more "A trip to Brooklands Museum"It seems like fate that I’m at U now of all times. It’s the time of year when freshers are just starting their journeys to Colleges all around the country, including some of my old Year 6 pupils. The other day I drove past Royal Holloway and all the signs were up for ‘student arrivals’. […]
Read more "U is for University"Thought I’d dedicate this week’s Monday Music to the works of the great Harry Dean Stanton. There are so many films that I remember him from and I thought I would choose a few of my favourites and some music from each of them. First though, here’s the man himself in his recent turn as […]
Read more "Monday Music 23 – HDS tribute"I heard this yesterday and, even though it’s not the usual thing I post on, I thought this was important and wanted to share it. This is a very worthwhile discussion about Climate Change between Sam Harris and Joseph Romm. Everything from the basic science to projections for best and worst case scenarios. It […]
Read more "Climate Change"Hi there, Following up from my Brave Theseus and the Minotaur (free play) post a few months ago, I am happy to offer my fellow teachers another one of my plays that you can use and adapt as you see fit. I put this on in school about 10 years ago and it went down pretty […]
Read more "The Baa-tivity (Free Nativity Play)"A bit of John Williams this week. Temple of Doom is sometimes looked down on among the films either side of it in the original Indiana Jones trilogy. It has its issues for sure but John Williams’ work on the soundtrack is superb (well, no-one would expect anything different, right?). I love the fusion of […]
Read more "Monday Music 22 – 2017"I’m a bit late to this party and I’m betting that everyone is bored to tears by now of hearing endless theories about what it all means, if indeed it means anything. I’m not going to focus on theories (maybe one or two later on) but more about feelings. There are lots of spoilers here […]
Read more "Twin Peaks: The Return – Loved it!"It’s September and the holidays are over. So, this week I’ve decided to make my Monday Music post a little piece of inspiration for all us teachers going back to school today. This is from the film that first made me consider getting into teaching in the first place. It’s also a film that makes […]
Read more "Monday Music 21 – 2017"I’ve been looking forward to ‘T’. It was set from the beginning. I found the picture below on Twitter a couple of days ago and it was as good an intro as I could hope for. There are a lot of NQTs popping up on the various Facebook groups for teachers and this is partly […]
Read more "T is for Teaching"Here’s a link to my latest conversation on the Obnoxious and Anonymous channel, this time coming on the slightly different setting of Vidme. Had a good chat about all things Twin Peaks, Inland Empire and other stuff. https://vid.me/OjS1J Cheers, Richard
Read more "More Twin Peaks Talk"Books, games, music, and life — filtered through the mind of a writer, drummer, and philosopher who thinks too deeply about all of it. If it moves something in your chest, I'm interested.
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