Posted inReading
Warning! Reading can be bad for you!
On the 18th January 2026, Winnie the Pooh turned 100. Quite incredible, really, that a bear of very little brain should have such a long-lasting place in the collective memory…
Posted inRPGs
Where Do You Get Your Great Ideas?
This week, one for the Dungeon Masters/Games Masters/Keepers/whatever your game happens to call it. Fair warning, this doesn't work for all roleplaying games. It's not great for dungeon crawls (whether…
Posted inReading
The Great January Reading Reset
Got to make a start on organising things this year. Prioritising. Making sure stuff gets read. And that means tackling the TBR pile. And that's scary.
Posted inEducation
Oh, Good. There’s a Tiger Behind Door 3
The way I see it, we've 2 potential futures ahead of us. Behind door 1 is The Terminator future. Rise of the machines. Technology going from being our slave to being our master. And there's plenty of other examples of this in dystopian fiction. On the other hand, we've door 2. Behind door 2 is the Star Trek future. The protopian future...
The Year of the Reader
The Government has decreed 2026 to be the National Year of Reading (https://www.goallin.org.uk) and with good reason. Reading seems to be happening less and less, not just in kids but…
Posted inCheesecake Cooking & Baking
3 come along at once
You know the saying, you wait ages for a bus (or a tube train) and then 3 come along at once. Turns out it's the same with cheesecakes. One of…