The Moon Stallion

Finished it overnight, and it was as magical as I remembered the television programme to be.  I remember being quite frightened watching it at the time (I’d have been about 9 years old, I think).
I was interested to see what specifics stuck in my mind: the toad skeleton, the horse magic, the Celtic goddess Epona, [...]

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Just

P7 Open Night last night. I love it. A chance to meet new pupils. A chance to show what the LRC does. What this Librarian does. A great opportunity to help the pupils feel like high school can’t be too scary if that library wumman works there.
And it was fun… but
I can’t help feeling a [...]

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SLF09: CANVAS

I’m in love. I’m so much in love. The virtual world created for CANVAS is just stunning. The kids will love it too. We’ll never be able to get them out.
Enough rambling. CANVAS (Children’s Art at the National Virtual Arena for Scotland) is a virtual art gallery created to house artworks from our schools. It’s [...]

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Public Monument and Sculpture Association

I love sculpture, in all its lunatic forms, so I love this PMSA website, which records loads of sculptures around the UK. It’s nowhere near complete, but the Glasgow section is fabulous, listing loads of instantly recognisable images and plenty of wee gems I hadn’t noticed before. I’m surprised that the Heavy Horse isn’t mentioned, [...]

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Sensory development

I love seeing a project develop and grow tendrils and blossom in all sorts of directions.
Teacher1 asked Teacher2 if she could create some A5 poetry cards for our sensory garden. T2 said there was no time. T1 asked me. I spoke to T3 about using LRC time. T3 amenable.
Simple enough. But then the project started one [...]

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Glowing

First day training as a Glow Mentor and I’m confused.
Why are there no scones? In-service without scones just isn’t the done thing!
Also, what’s the role of the website, if we’re all on the intranet? I see roles for both, it’s just figuring out what’s to go where, and what needs duplicated, and so on. One [...]

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Days 24, 25 Calderglen

Shoved the weekend together cos both days we took the kids out to have a look at the sad non-remains of Calderwood Castle. That end of Calderglen seems sadly ignored, although obviously much loved by the locals and their dogs. In particular on Sunday we met a huge black beastie called Rocko. His owner claimed [...]

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Day 2 – High Blantyre Viaduct

What started me off on this hunt? Can’t remember exactly. I think I was trying to find out where the Calderwood Castle railway station had been, saw an amazing photo of a viaduct in Blantyre (which I can’t find now), and that got me researching. This is only a couple of miles away from where I grew up.
Spoke [...]

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What I’m reading

Hi, I’m Jen and I have a reading problem.
Nothing fictional appeals to me. I can’t find anything decent, nothing I can sink my teeth into.
Am I asking too much to want every book I read to be excellent, exciting and encourage my mind to wander in new directions? I don’t think so. But more and more [...]

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Frosty and Flickr

Went for a wander with the camera this morning.  The sun was struggling  with the clouds, although it lit the frost with gold when it did get through. Naturally I didn’t manage to capture any of this. Not in focus anyway.
What I am quite pleased with are the pictures of  icecrystals from the tops of the fence [...]

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