Why playtime for adults won’t bring your childhood back.
Is this a thing? No, really, is this a thing? If you live in Seattle, you may now participate in something called Adult Recess, which aims to recreate the joys of an American school break time, with kickball, hopscotch, and peanut butter and jelly sandwiches - but minus the bullying. “I ( Read more... )

Actually, down rather than up, and partly via a detour, but it was a lovely morning for walking down a London thoroughfare with layers of history imbricated with the Starbucks etc.

Suspect that the Eagle is now a Starbucks, Costa, or Yo! Sushi.

But anyway, the nursery rhyme intersected with some thoughts evoked by various things found via the ( Read more... )

All day at a conference, which I enjoyed in spite of its massive time overruns. As far as I could tell my own paper (which I had timed beautifully) went well. There was one paper which was way too long for its slot, and one that covered familiar ground, but others that were on a range from good to excellent.

Also, a chance to get together with ( Read more... )

Thanks to everybody who responded to the 'should hedjog transmogrify into Mr Toad vroom-vroom parp-parp' post yesterday: these replies are still giving me food for thought.

Have also been thinking further about whether actual skills, of whatever kind, are essential to adulthood, or whether it is really more of a state of mind and an approach to ( Read more... )