“Other people, with their differences, can also be right.” International Baccalaureate Mission Statement I’ve done a fair bit of school leadership training over the years. None of it led with a chapter on understanding your parents. Which is peculiar if you think about it. We spend considerable time learning to lead learning, staff, budgets, navigate […]
I don’t travel well at the best of times. By the time I reached seat 40K, found no room in the overhead locker, then realised the in-flight entertainment system wasn’t working, I was already flustered. By the time I had absorbed the delayed take-off, agonised over the slow progress of the food trolley, tried to […]
Whenever I meet up with my brother-in-law during the holidays, he regularly insists we do long cross-country runs in the early morning. And because I know it’s good for me, I nearly always end up agreeing (even if I end up bleating all the way around about the cold and rain), particularly as we always […]
I’ve now been blogging for five years. By the numbers, I am pleased to share my Serendipities.blog has now reached the giddy heights of 111 signed-up subscribers. Over five years, I have somehow managed to knock up 92 posts, written over 83,000 words, and last year the blog site was visited 28,900 times from readers […]
Sitting down with a glass of wine this week, half-heartily trying to read (Politics on the Edge), I noticed my son was utterly absorbed by something he was reading on the computer. Even from where I was sitting on the other side of the room, I could see he was on Wikipedia. Curious, I asked […]
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