Get On With Your Work Lazy Children

Good morning/afternoon/evening/witching hour to you,
I have been silent for too long. You tend to do that a bit as a teacher. Best not rock the boat, but I can’t keep my mouth shut any longer.
This week in New Zealand there was a big hello and heralded fanfare welcoming to national standards. If you are reading [...]

The World is Going to Die and it’s All Our Fault

It’s a great thing to sit down with your eight year old nephew, watch a kid’s film and realise the world is going to die if we don’t get our shit together.
I suppose the title of this blog could be construed as slightly negative, but then so is the word ‘no’ and heaps of people [...]

Welcome to My Thinks

This is my take on global politics. My Thinks focuses on the ideologies and actions of the few that govern the lives of the many. The foibles of capitalism, the idiocy and hypocrisy of the right wing agenda, my weight loss goals – all will be covered by this blog. Sometimes we might even have [...]

The Future…

This week I attended a conference. I even presented at this conference. This, of course, means I’ve made it. I’m now officially a ‘grown-up’.
Rewind 30 years. If you’d ask me what I wanted to be when I grow up in 1978, I would have said something like ‘fireman’, or ‘astronaut’ or ‘policeman’ or one of [...]