The 12 Days of Winter Wonder Photo Challenge ✨ Day 5 prompt: sparkle.

My latest project 'Paper Plate Robin' is perfect for Christmas, but also an idea you could use all year round. The making video, photos, and instructions are the latest post on the 'news' link on the website www.darrellwakelam.com (Intellectual property of D. Wakelam) #edusky #UKEd #UKTeaching

The 12 Days of Winter Wonder Photo Challenge ✨ Day 5 prompt: beard. Searching my photo library found this among the faces, The word beard is on the broken headstone, left and below the centre of the image. Taken 1 January 2021 at the  Necropolis.

The 12 Days of Winter Wonder Photo Challenge ✨ Day 4 prompt: Evergreen 🌲 A Scots Pine at the edge of the Kilpatrick Braes. A young one sprouts in the foreground.

On This Flickr Day: https://johnjohnston.info/blog/on-this-flickr-day/

blogs.glowscotland.org.uk/glowblogs/ad... A bit of fun for kids one of 24 #H5P activities for primary pupils wrapped in an advent calendar.

The 12 Days of Winter Wonder Photo Challenge begins today ✨ Day 1 prompt: frost❄️ Photo from a few years back. This winter has been as wet and mild as I can remember, hardly seen any frost at all.

I saw a note from Sarah Honeychurch in an email thread about a problem with FeedWordPress, the plugin that makes the ScotEdublogs Aggregation work. This alerted Alan Levine who raised an issue and simplified the solution. Alan also had blogged abou... https://johnjohnston.info/blog/scotedublogs-fix/

Collection Box presents Martha Ffion, Jill Lorean & Goodnight Louisa at The Doublet, Glasgow West End | What’s On Glasgow Music night in aid of Amma Birth Companions.   Doublet Bar Dec 17 from 7:30pm to 10:30pm GMT  (@marthaffion @... https://johnjohnston.info/blog/collection-box-17-december/

From my one this day page I found a 2010 post with a broken image had been on flickr, but no more. I found a copy on the internet archive. Replaced, added alt text & left the attribution in place. From an unrelated search of my posts, a post from 2016, fixed two typos. Happy moments.

Day 4 of my advent calendar of simple #H5P examples, in. Glow Blogs. A wee game for primary school pupils every day till Christmas.

A walk to Duncolm via Loch Humphrey & Fynloch hill in the mist & drizzle today. Very mild for the time of year. The burns are full and the paths are bogs. Some photos on a map: walkmap

A little egret & a pal were quartering the horse field at the star of the Loch Humphrey track. A few minutes later I head a nuthatch. Both are fairly recent arrivals in Scotland I believe. Due to climate change. It is a very mild start to December & fields are surprisingly green. Drizzle & mist

Primary teachers might find these Glow Blog Advent calendars interesting. Short activities every December day till Christmas. Glow blog users might find these techniques useful, one has #H5P activities, the other Uses the draw attention plugin. #ScotEduSky blogs.glowscotland.org.uk/glowblogs/gl...

You'll not catch me using an 'AI browser' any time soon: https://thoughtshrapnel.com/2025/11/26/youll-not-catch-me-using.html

Read: Seascraper by Benjamin Wood ★★★★★ 📚 Little waves are shouldering the cart’s tyres, spitting upwards at his face. The sea is patterned by the rain like honeycomb. He’s trying to make the best of it, but he can tell the hors... https://johnjohnston.info/blog/review-seascraper-by-benjamin-wood/

Nice wee #GlowBlogs tip: blogs.glowscotland.org.uk/glowblogs/bl... #eduscot #scotedu

Kilpatrick braes, yesterday, short loop. Low clouds, some drizzle and a few bright spells. Quite warm. Paths like burns after yesterday’s heavy rain. On the first field a buzzard hunting. A couple of ravens appeared & moved it off. After the deer fen... https://johnjohnston.info/blog/ravens-buzzard/

Walk to greenside in the autumn rain yesterday. Low cloud & mostly very dull, made the few yellow leaves and other colours pop a bit.

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Walking up Slackdhu in the Campsies this afternoon, as a few patches of this fungi. Golden Spindles I think. Happy to be corrected. #Fungi

What is radio? Kind of an early form of podcasting Scripting News: Times I’ve been ambushed at conferences Priceless aside by Dave Winer, @dave Bonus link from Dave : Attard and McHugh on podcasting’s democratic dream Also: Why did podcasting work? – links.daveverse.org

#TeachMeet20 a post of some of my thoughts about #TeachMeet which is approaching its 20th anniversary johnjohnston.info/blog/teachme...

A lot of deer around today, lots of bellowing from stags.

A dull afternoon, breezy with the threat of drizzle. Walked round the short loop on the Kilpatrick braes. As I came back on the road by the cattle grid I heard a harsh call from the ‘hawthorn field’ next to the gate. It kept going and Merli... https://johnjohnston.info/blog/the-braes-a-jay-an-egret/

On 30 October MSPs will debate the Natural Environment Bill - a vital opportunity to ensure that Scotland sets legally binding nature recovery targets. Help inspire MSPs to support meaningful action for nature by sharing these 40 powerful messages: www.scotlandlovesnature.scot/dear-msp-nat...

If you can point any folk interested in Scottish Education to this post I'd be grateful id you pass it on. Looking to expand the gather & reach of ScotEduBlogs #scotedusky #eduscot #scotedu #scoted

ScotsEduBlogs Update: https://johnjohnston.info/blog/scotsedublogs-update/

I’ve been messing about with the simplest ImageMagick scripts again. magick "$file" -threshold 25% -fill white +opaque black "${file%.*}bw25.gif" Sort of thing. Changing the threshold repeatedly. A few more on Flickr. I am not sure why I like these but I do.

Likes Do you remember the books you read? • (Venkatram Harish Belvadi) by V.H. Belvadi . I do not ‘remember’ most of the books I have read. I can recall which ones I liked and roughly why I liked them, but I cannot recount the plot minutely or repeat all... https://johnjohnston.info/blog/21298-2/

After Storm Amy it brightened up a little this morning. This Red Admiral to the chance of a bit of sunlight. !wonder how many more we will see this year. A bit later I saw a white flying around too, despite the wind. #butterfly

Liked: Exploring WordPress, Textcasting, and Open Web Standards: https://johnjohnston.info/blog/liked-exploring-wordpress-textcasting-and-open-web-standards/

Likes blocktober.fun. Idea: Create a block every day for October using Telex as the creation tool." I had a quick try with Telex last month. This is something else!

Only just listened to the excerpt in the Saturday program so far. This next in my podcast queue. 💙

Right. A bit more about what we’re up to. Would love feedback, do stick a comment at the end. And do please consider signing up to find out more www.thenerve.news open.substack.com/pub/broligar...

Read: Ripeness by Sarah Moss ★★★★ 📚Edith in her 70s in 2023 and 17 in the 70s in alternative chapters, the echos of the holocaust, family, belonging to a place, refugees & friendship. Excursions into Irishness & ballet. Mike’s fri... https://johnjohnston.info/blog/ripeness-by-sarah-moss/

Read: Now We Shall Be Entirely Free by Andrew Miller After The Land in Winter, this turned out to be quite different. Reminded me of Kidnapped! An atrocity in Spain, an English solider, running from another sent to kill him, heads fo... https://johnjohnston.info/blog/now-we-shall-be-entirely-free/

A red admiral In the pink. As I took the wings closed image a bee flew very close, wings snapped open.

I'm up for that - it had crossed my mind but then term began again. And the to do list unrolled 😆

Photos, notes & map from a walk on Tuesday: walkmap

Might be the weirdest think on the internet today, post hosted on a vape.