I’m never sure whether the year ending with 0 is the end of the decade or the start of the next. I remember the millennium, when we were partying in 1999 and then people said the millennium did not technically end until New Year in 2000. So I guess this […]
Yearly archives: 2020
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The online teaching has been a pleasure and a grind in equal measure. In some ways I am grateful for the opportunity to reevaluate my teaching, yet I also know that it did not need a global pandemic to reevaluate it. I have been taking whatever chance I can get […]
Another month with Covid restrictions and more to come it seems. For some reason a difficult year seems to get worse when the days get shorter and wetter. But here we are. I am fortunate enough to still be employed and in good health, so I should not complain. The […]
Autumn is swinging into gear and the coronavirus is still at large. New restrictions in the UK and the weather is getting noticeably darker and wetter. Doom and gloom ahead. My parents brought sunshine into their lives with Bowie, their new puppy. They hoped to get a dog ten years […]
It is horrible to think that the summer is coming to an end already. Lockdown means that it does not feel as if I have had a holiday at all, especially as we have had no chance to go anywhere in the last six months. I have taken a few […]
Lockdown has lifted in some ways but things are still strange; face masks in shops, lots of social distancing in place. It seems like we won’t travel anywhere this year, and so it is a summer at home. We are lucky to live by the sea and so we have […]
With lockdown slowly easing, it appears the uncertainty will continue for some time. From a work perspective, I have continued throughout the lockdown but the practice of teaching is very different. It remains to be seen how September will be. The filmmaking has been slowed for sure. I saw a […]
What will learning look like after lockdown? Working in a university, there is already lots of discussion (and little agreement) about the challenges ahead. Personally, I view this as an opportunity to do away with lots of the things that I think are holding education back. First, what happens to […]
Lockdown continues. Following on from Qualia, I decided to produce a project quickly at home. The end result was a short film and accompanying soundtrack called Light Symphony. Time seems quite abstract in lockdown. Days go by at different speeds. In some ways I feel very productive, having completed projects, […]