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This Digital Universe video from the American Museum of Natural History is a gorgeous 6 and 1/2 minute remider of where we earthlings sit on the big stage!!

Tom Barrett is a very creative teacher – he crowdsources ideas from other creative teachers and collates them for the rest of us at his Interesting Ways blog.As a lover of Wordle, my favourite has got to be 43 Interesting Ways to use Wordle in the…

Just finished re-reading one of my all time favourite books – Bill Bryson’s A Short History of Nearly Everything. It is like a comfort blanket, and reminds me of where I belong in space and time. I bought it as soon as it was published because I a…

Went to see the Livin’ Dred production in the Ramor Theatre Virginia last Sunday night. A surreal audience, very senior. Lovely players and a very atmospheric set. Very very sad – and it could almost be about any war. Very glad we got to see it at…

Really good Sunday lunch – really great food, great service, great value. Almost empty dining room though.

Speedie you did it again!Brendan “Speedie” Smith got us all to take to the roads in this wet and windy November to assemble in the D’Arcy Thompson theatre in UCG. The afternoon began with a riveting lecture from the forever wonderful Prof Hubert M…

Just back from Bell X1 show with Daughter #2 in Portlaoise. It was great – despite a dreadful venue they shone. param>

John Hegarty’s 13 minute iMovie gives a flavour of our second terrific CESI Meet, this one in the Digital Hub Dublin on Friday Sept 25th…

Went to see Chicago in the Gaiety Theatre in Dublin last Saturday with Nollaig, Gr??inne, Sorcha and Erin. Loved it. Always love it. Gary Wilmot a super Billy Flynn, and the puppet scene was outstanding…soooh glad I went! I might us this blog spa…

Went to see Cirque du Soleil’s Kooza in St Paul last week – once again blown away by the spectacle. Costume, live music (two singers, two drummer, brass!), clowns, acrobats, contortionista all choregographed and presented in medieval glory in an o…