what is tumblr?

so my brother made this tublr thing. It's called "wookie bits" or something. Check it out if you have tumblr...

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Hi all.

Long time, new post. Been reading Henry Rollins' diaries. What a guy! Inspired me to do some writing -- but I'll keep it short.

SO -- teaching is going ok. I am pretty rubbish, but I'm getting back into the saddle. I think that I fell into every pitfall a teacher has faced -- but that is how you learn. Lots of marking but I think it's under control -- I've just got to put it in the right places. I don't know. It's wierd; at the start I felt alot more confident in my (non)abilty and now I'm starting to feel more nervous about it all -- I don't know why but I wish that I would stop it! Anyhow.

Church is great! Loving home-group / cell group / whatever you want to call it. Building up really close bonds and it is really encouraging to talk, pray with these mighty humble amazing people. Need to kick back into prayer triplet -- I kinda need it. Also need to read more. Have been listening to 'The Screwtape Letters' on audio. It is amazing! CS Lewis is a legend; he's got a real talent for writing and he is SO WISE! I also need to read up on things on 'Be Thinking' website.

Had a really interesting discussion with Carly about the differences between animals and humans. What do you think? I hope we talk more about head-expanding things like that. Talking about stuff like that is really interesting...

Dedicated to Ham (it was good to see people today!)

SCREAM

"Three Steps to Professional Support"

GTC!! yeah right.

"The Teacher Learning Academy":
www.gtce.org.uk/tla

"Research for Teachers" (RfT):
www.gtce.org.uk/teachers/rft

"GTC for network for teachers":
www.gtce.org.uk/teachers/networks

To liven it up a MR SCRUFF picture:

Now with labels ...

For the like 5 people who read this blog, I have made it easier to find things. I have labelled everything under the following:

"Art" -- the thing that I've "written" the most about at the moment. This tells you that I am a visual-thinking person (who likes searching for images on the internet...) I've also included my creative writing / the writing of others in this label, for better or worse ...

"Blogs" -- I LOVE writing about blogs: blogs that I have found, celebrity blogs, blogs that my friends are writing ... check this one out often!

"Music" -- like the art, I guess.

"Politics" -- agh, what am I talking about?? Usually things that interest me, that I have no authority on whatsoever ... I'll come back to this one ...

"Religion" -- the term "religion" is a bit of a drag, but it's what I live and breathe for, what gets me up in the morning; when I am (often) completely broken my the world -- believe me, I feel like this a lot!!! -- it is by the grace of God that I'm where I am right now. Again, not authority on what I write; I'm just a guy trying to work this stuff out ... check out some of the blogs on the righthand side for more wisedom on the subject.

"Teaching" -- A little bit about teaching. Know less than I do about this than I do about politics ...

So there you go: to conclude, I never really know what I'm talking about.

SM

Blog Anniversary ...

1 year old??? In four days?!? 73 posts later ...



So I Googled my name hoping a picture of me would come up I could post and this David Shrigley picture that I used way back last year!! So I thought I would put it up. Enjoy.

SM

P Breugel the Elder

P Breugel -- perhaps from a Fleet Foxes cover?

2 reasons to like P Breugel:

"Hieronymus Rex"



Hieronymus Bosch -- The Last Judgement

"Where's Wally?" --


Can you find him?