Forest School has been the focus of my side project time over the last year. In December we took 3 days out to build this willow dome, which we are now just seeing to start to sprout. None of us had ever done a project of this nature before, so as with the modern way,… Continue reading Building a living willow dome at Forest School
How to backup minecraft worlds on windows 10 in 2018
I wrote last year about how to find the save location for Minecraft world in Windows 10 and back them up manually. Eleven months later in 2018 I’ve been back doing some Minecraft maintenance on my daughters’ laptop, and I wanted to confirm that the save location and the nature of how you do the… Continue reading How to backup minecraft worlds on windows 10 in 2018
My wife has a new ebay shop
My wife has recently been working on setting up her new side business of vintage and used items which she sells on ebay. She has a keen eye for acquiring items from various used sources and has some great stuff available, the catalogue of which is always changing daily. You can take a look at… Continue reading My wife has a new ebay shop
How to backup minecraft worlds on windows 10 in 2017
This post is based upon how to backup Minecraft worlds in Windows 10 Minecraft v1.11.2 @ 6th April 2017 – this post comes with no guarantees as to what the future of Minecraft backups maybe, and your mileage may vary! Do not move or delete other files inside these hidden directories as it may have cause unexpected… Continue reading How to backup minecraft worlds on windows 10 in 2017
A comparison of browsers from a parental perspective
I’m a big fan of Windows 10 under certain conditions. I’ve just deployed it in our corporate environment on over 14000 machines in 55 countries. I have big designs on implementing Azure AD and EMS in the coming months, but this post it about it, and more specifically browsers running within it from a parental… Continue reading A comparison of browsers from a parental perspective
Scan old logo from business card to generate new vector AI files
I had an extension built last year by DEP Building Services of Caterham. As a favour to them this year as they did a great job, a built them a wordpress site as they didn’t have one already. It was a fairly standard build about from that they already had a logo, but they didn’t… Continue reading Scan old logo from business card to generate new vector AI files
3 years of teaching programming to primary school children
I’ve been teaching programming to primary school children (aged 9 to 11) through an after school club for nearly 3 years now and this post details some thoughts in review, some lessons learnt and things you might want to consider if you’re thinking about doing the same thing. You can read my thoughts about starting out here. For… Continue reading 3 years of teaching programming to primary school children
A visit to the Shwedagon Pagoda whilst in Yangon
In June 2015 I had the opportunity to visit the Yangon office of my current employer Save the Children. Save have a huge office in Myanmar (300 or so staff), and a huge operation across the country working with some of the most disadvantaged children in the world. IT and connectivity are a serious challenge… Continue reading A visit to the Shwedagon Pagoda whilst in Yangon
2 day walking trip on the South Downs
Being as I was between jobs these past 2 weeks (by design I might add, as some people get embarrassed when you use this phrase!) I’ve been doing some things I love with the time. This has meant doing the school run, spending time with my wife, pottering around the house and other such matters,… Continue reading 2 day walking trip on the South Downs
I’ve updated my site to a new responsive theme
I’ve spent the last 48 hours trying to convert this site from my old wordpress theme to this new fully responsive one. I did like my old design, but it was a couple of years old now and the world of devices has moved on. The old one was not responsive in any shape or… Continue reading I’ve updated my site to a new responsive theme