Category Archives: Not sure what this is about

Despite sore throats, coughs and blocked sinuses we spent New Year’s Eve with the good folk of Newcastle on Tyne.  The evening began with The Frost Queen and her dancers And a carnival led by Thor   The children’s evening … Continue reading →

Time for all good gynoids to make mince pies, make merry and make friends. Three of the young Muslim men who live in the next door house called unexpectedly tonight, with the gift of a very nice bottle of port, … Continue reading →

Everyone is enjoying Halloween this weekend. In fact we now have two weeks of costumes, fireworks and fairgrounds here where I live. I still enjoy traditional ‘creepy stories’ more than the surfeit of gory teenage vampire/zombies that fill my TV … Continue reading →

As a teenager I read huge amounts of science fiction. My local Saturday market had a bookstall with old back copies of US SF magazines like ‘Astounding SF’ and ‘Analog’. I devoured these – even though I often could never … Continue reading →

But I am not sure that the reason has a lot in common with why this cornered cyborg now Twitters.  I have given in and got myself a Twitter account. If you must you can follow me at #lostforworlds and … Continue reading →

I am  involved with two different open access, online, academic journals. Both of which were started here at the Open University, both of which have had minimal financial resources and both of which depend on the commitment of academics to … Continue reading →

I have been struggling a bit with all the pdf downloads I now have on  my Kindle. I haven’t yet found a way of resizing them that makes them easy to read. Academic journals don’t respond fast to developments in … Continue reading →

Last week I was challenged to think about what I am doing  when I label myself a ‘feminist educator’.    After listening to a discussion about special initiatives in Europe to encourage more women to engage with information and communication technologies- … Continue reading →