via Brainpickings, Bertrand Russell’s ten commandments of teaching: Perhaps the essence of the Liberal outlook could be summed up in a new decalogue, not intended to replace the old one […]

A while back Transport for London ran a neat little film which challenged viewers to spot something obvious but easily missed – a bear walking through the middle of a […]

This book is a perfect little addition to that pile of books next to the toilet which require little concentration but demands something absorbing (if not also absorbent): Indexed. It […]

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Go here (Priory Bay, Isle of Wight) Take on of these Get the kids one of these And you have yourself a proper British seaside holiday…til the end of July.

Picture cred You learn something new everyday. Today, I learned a new word – DEMONYM. Sounds ghoulish but is actually “a word that denotes the members of a people or […]

Well, I'm not in my salad days – "…My salad days, / When I was green in judgment, cold in blood…" – but my children are and looking back on […]

So this is where all the Rubik’s Cubes went… via curate

On a recent trip to Laytown, a large sandy beach north of Dublin, I stumbled upon a group of friendly, hardy and enthusiastic land yachters. There were some very sleek […]

Saying goodbye to my five year old son this morning, I asked what he wanted from America by way of a present (to assuage my guilt at being away for […]

Call me old fashioned and rather English but there’s something wonderful about the change of seasons and a sense of anticipation in getting out the woollies for another autumn / […]