Leigh in Azerbaijan

“Here be dragons and critical thinking.”  This has to go on my classroom wall this year.  Here Be Dragons, is a 40-minute video introduction to critical thinking by Brian Dunning. “Here be dragons” was used by cartographers for those sections of the map where explorers had not yet been.  I guess it was a reasonable [...]

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At Greyfriar’s church, in Edinburgh, just behind The Elephant House, where J.K. Rowling worked on the first Harry Potter book, there is an ancient graveyard full of stories. One of them is about the death of a policeman John Grey and his loyal Skye terrier Bobby who remained at the grave for fourteen years.
This film [...]

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Tanya reports that her paper was well-received this morning.  She decided to give a quick summary and throw it open for conversation.  Lots of discussion followed.
While she was presenting I took a north-boun train to Helsingor this morning to see Kronborg Castle where Shakespeare’s Hamlet is set.  Hamlet is older than the castle but Shakespeare [...]

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Forbes reports that Baku takes the prize as being the world’s dirtiest city.  To put this in perspective many people comment on the news item and can’t understand why their filthy third world city in Africa or India etc.  doesn’t rate in the top 25.  Maybe it’s the kilometres of oil-soaked land just out of [...]

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With twilight still being around at 9.30 it’s easy to walk late in the day.  The funicular steps are an easy way to get some exercise so I headed there again but finally took a photo of this road sign that I’d been meaning to take for a long time.  (Did I include one from [...]

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