I think he's getting used to me. He didn't even stop eating last night when I took this.
The hedgehog was here again, but he was too quick for the camera, so here is a picture of the front garden instead.
@lauraritchie @Downes our hedgehogs have been out in daylight for the last two or three days.
Any happy Croatians around here? #worldcup
Yesterday I was productive. I produced a pile of ash. It was previously a large box of confidential waste. I could have produced a baked potato at the same time, but I didn't think of that till too late.
How I pass my time now I'm "retired" - a bit of application of academic theory to life: "Windrush, how they suddenly became "good" immigrants." http://acomfortableplace.blogspot.com/2018/05/windrush-how-they-suddenly-became-good.html
So the Prince of Wales morphs into the Duke of Edinburgh without even trying. https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/prince-charles-race-row-woman-from-manchester-anita-sethi-a8315187.html
In which I discuss the OU (UK) and how it needs to change http://reallyusefulknowledge.blogspot.com/2018/04/how-ou-needs-to-change.html
"you’d look at a grand slam for the women and you’d say there’s probably three or four girls who can win it" Just trying to parse the patriarchy in this sentence. ("Girls" is used to refer to mature women several times in the article.)
Half thoughts on states, corporations and people: http://acomfortableplace.blogspot.co.uk/2017/07/states-corporations-and-people.html
@econproph @ShorterPearson @Tdorey @lauraritchie @actualham @bonstewart @cogdog @katebowles @fgraver I use "learning". In the OU we are taught to sa we don't teach, we enable learning. Some dislike that, as it is sometimes interpreted as a status thing. I like it.
@ShorterPearson @lauraritchie @Tdorey @katebowles @actualham #altadmin The other is to start afresh – found an employee owned, co-operatively run, not for profit university. Undoubtedly the competition would rush to throttle it at birth. They might succeed. But if they failed we might change the higher education landscape. Just a thought.
@ShorterPearson @lauraritchie @Tdorey @katebowles @actualham #altadmin But, if we want to change the way universities work, we need more than that. I think there are two options. First, to encourage people to move into university administrations as #altadmins, and take the brickbats and the suffocation of their work and ideas that will inevitably come their way.
@ShorterPearson @lauraritchie @Tdorey @katebowles @actualham #altadmin Even if they do not subscribe to the doctrine of neoliberalism, managers find themselves acting in accordance with its dictates as the entire structure and culture of the modern western university is that way inclined, and kept that way inclined by very powerful corporate and state interests.
Someone could be an #altadmin in their job and have no ambition beyond that. That would be admirable.
@ShorterPearson @lauraritchie @Tdorey @katebowles @actualham University administration has been captured, as has that of most institutions, by a footloose management elite. This elite emerges from the dominance of neoliberal thinking in which profit must take precedence over all other considerations. Non-profit institutions must be run along the same lines. Market disciplines must be introduced, and where they cannot, a culture of targets will ensure compliance.#altadmin
@ShorterPearson @lauraritchie @Tdorey @katebowles @actualham I have been submusing @actualham’s ideas about #altadmin, and the subsequent conversation, ever since. It strikes me that #altadmin in the current university is very difficult. Not impossible, but very difficult.
I have just watched a person who I considered a sympathetic manager stonewall valid criticism of their university’s top management (who have recently been failing badly and using the word “sorry” a lot).
I am fascinated by the #altadmin posts popping up in my timeline, but I have no idea what it is. Can someone enlighten me?
this was actually popular with my cabbage hating family.
I find with most recipes cooking times are longer than suggested; this was the case here. Just keep checking for texture and taste. (This means that quite a lot ends up in the chef, which is a good thing.)
@Trev
Achard de legumes
Instructions
1. Place carrots, cabbage, cauliflower, green beans in a medium saucepan, cover with water, season with salt then bring to the boil and cook for 1-2 minutes until vegetables are tender crisp. Drain well and set aside.
2. Heat oil in a saucepan, add ginger, chillies, onion and curry powder and cook, stirring for 2-3 minutes.
3. Add drained vegetables, cook over a high heat for 1 to 2 minutes.
4. Add lemon juice mix well remove from heat, allow to cool.
