Today Fred Mulder and Robert Schuwer were visiting the OU. We are taking over the [url=http://oer-unescochair-ounl.ning.com/]Go-GN network[/url], which they founded. We went for a nice meal in the Swan afterwards.
Monthly Archives: July 2015
In the glade
Pip hiding amongst the shadows
Pals
This is a Shetland Pony and a sheep up at the stables. Even for a Shetland this one seems small, a mini Shetland. I wonder if the sheep feels embarrassed?
Film set
They’ve been filming US series The Bastard Executioner up in the forest all week. They have created this wooden handrail and steps down to the three bears cave.
Bareback
Daughter riding Brandy up to the stables from the field.
The Establishment
I went to UWE today for an excellent OER session organised by Terry McAndrew, and then completely forgot to take any pics. So apologies for this boring one. I’m currently reading Owen Jones’s The Establishment. It’s an excellent book, he’s such a good writer. He doesn’t go in for conspiracy theory, but rather how the process operates and where we are now. I particularly like his analysis of how the media creates a very narrow window as to what is acceptable political thought.
Meet Brandy
This is Brandy, a Haflinger. It looks like we are taking her on loan, so daughter gets to ride her and look after her whenever she wants. I’ve a feeling I’m going to be spending a lot of time at these stables.
Let down
I sauntered out of the house at 6.45 to drive up to Milton Keynes only to be confronted by a flat tyre. There are few sadder sights than a flat tyre, it’s air of disappointment and futility all sagging there. I have one of those fabulous new spare wheels which isn’t really a spare wheel and you can only do 50 miles on it. So I had to get it replaced. This left me with a dilemma – by the time I got it replaced and got to MK I would have missed two meetings. So I may as well stay home and do those by skype. So I did, and a nice man is coming to replace the tyre on the drive tomorrow. Actually I don’t know if he’s nice. I’m assuming.
Keynote sketch
When I was in Barcelona for the EDEN conference a few weeks back, they employed an artist to do sketches of each of the keynotes. They very kindly sent me a copy of this in the post today. The artist is[url=http://www.mariacalvet.com/] Maria Calvet.[/url]
Impressionism
i went to the National Museum in Cardiff today. They do free guided tours every day at 12.30, focusing on different aspects of the collection. Today was the impressionists.
