2025

an archive of posts from this year

May 28, 2025
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Becoming a Genealogist - Getting Started with Ancestry
Getting Started with Ancestry, why I decided to create a family tree, how to start, the pitfalls and benefits
May 28, 2025
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Haze - The Waters Edge Review
Review of the 2024 studio album by Haze from Sheffield
May 27, 2025
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The horror of health creep
Navigating whole body health
May 11, 2025
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My Love of Music
Musical Therapy
Apr 30, 2025
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If it's not broken...
1970s Technology, does it hold up?
Apr 30, 2025
Mar 30, 2025
#guts2025 | James Thomson
What the future of Engineering could hold, from #GUTS2025
Mar 25, 2025
Embracing AI: Redefining Education for a Collaborative Future
Some years ago I took a short online course called 'The Mind is Flat' which proposes that much of our behavior, thoughts, and feelings are shaped by external influences and immediate contexts, we basically learn from the available surroundings. Back in the early 80's when I was first at college our
Mar 12, 2025
Nurturing the Nurturers: Health and Well-being in Further Education
I have had a fair few jobs in my time, in industry and also in education over the last 20 years. People come to FE for a number of reasons.