Category Archives: Work
DofE 2024
Where I probably walked more miles than the children, and everyone got very very muddy. Last weekend was the annual Duke of Edinburgh silver expedition, and once again I was herding children around the Yorkshire Dales. There wasn’t any snow … Continue reading
Modern Society Illustrated
Here’s a photo that perfectly sums up modern society… Chairs need instructions explicitly telling the user it is for sitting on, and that it isn’t a step ladder. Of course the warning label is not attached to a chair because … Continue reading
DofE 2023
It’s late April which means once again I enter the national cat-herding competition. The challenge – set 13 students off on three days of camping and walking to complete their silver Duke of Edinburgh. Continue reading