Author Archives: blogmywiki

Home-made Vermouth – part 1

Posted on October 30, 2018 by blogmywiki

I love vermouth. I like a vodka martini, a regular one and more than both of those things I love the smell of dry white vermouth hitting the risotto pan and evaporating straight into my nostrils. In recent years the … Continue reading →

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Nim and the Sinclair Cambridge Programmable calculator

Posted on September 10, 2018 by blogmywiki

The game of Nim comes in many forms, but the idea is same: players take turns to remove objects from a pile and the player left taking the last object loses. Or wins. You can play it so you win … Continue reading →

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Human Voices by Penelope Fitzgerald

Posted on July 30, 2018 by blogmywiki

Human Voices by Penelope Fitzgerald (1980). 4th Estate Books, £8.99 It’s hard not think that I was destined to read, and indeed love, this book. Andy Miller recommended it to me saying he thought it would be right up my … Continue reading →

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10 things I have learned since becoming a teacher

Posted on June 23, 2018 by blogmywiki

As I lurch into my last three weeks of my teaching career (for a while at least) I thought I’d make a list of what my short but eventful teaching career has taught me. Most of these are teaching-specific but … Continue reading →

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Web-based intro to ScratchJr

Posted on May 1, 2018 by blogmywiki

It’s been bugging me for a while that there’s no web-based intro to ScratchJr, MIT’s awesome version of Scratch for younger children. And ScratchJr only runs on tablets. I made some simple block-coding activities like this turtle drawing game and … Continue reading →

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