Author: Jax Blunt
The Playful Path to Development: Encouraging Growth through Outdoor Toys in Learning
Introduction: The Unending Joy of Play Children’s play is a universe of exploration, discovery, and learning. It’s a joyous journey that contributes significantly to their cognitive, physical, social, and emotional growth. The potential of outdoor play is vast and can be maximised with playful aids like a trampoline or a mud kitchen, transforming our gardens…
Twenty years a blogger
Twenty years, on and off, recently more off than on, but still here, still writing. We’ve been through a lot in the last couple of decades. Added 3 children to the family (Big is older than the blog!), moved house a couple or three times, changed jobs, lost jobs, worked from home, not worked, home…
Neurodivergence on page and screen – Like a Curse and A Kind of Spark from Elle McNicoll
Although Smallest and Tigerboy are now 13 and 11, I still read to them every night. It’s a really nice way to round off the day, and we’ve enjoyed a lot of different books that way. Recently we read Like a Curse, the sequel to Like a Charm by Elle McNicoll from the pioneering KnightsOf.…
Day two of learning to code with Scratch and Tigerboy.
Yesterday we got started on working our way through a Scratch tutorial book I picked up from the local library for sale shelf, How to code in 10 easy lessons. Today we’ve written a buzzer game. You use the arrow keys to turn your arrow around, and the space key to move. In mine anyway:…
Back to making it up
For a variety of reasons, my job as a technical writer at a games studio is coming to an end. I’m on garden leave just now – they’ve picked up my tech, and I’ve a couple weeks to get my act together. I am a little in shock – it all ended very quickly, and…
Wolfsong by T J Klune
I don’t know how this is my first T J Klune book. It certainly won’t be my last. One point though, set aside some time, if you can, this is a hefty tome, and if you’re anything like me, you’re going to want to devour it. Yes, there are werewolves and magic. There’s romance and…
Reinvention
Disclosure: collaborative post Over the last year and a half, I’ve been to-ing and fro-ing to a whole bunch of medical professionals, starting with the GP, and taking in physios, rheumatologists, an orthopaedic surgeon and most recently, an occupational therapist in the hand therapy team. I’ve had xrays, blood tests, an ultrasound, nerve conduction studies…
Did I mention that I’m tired?
I am tired. I went to the physio today, as advised by the GP two weeks ago, to request referral to the hand therapy team. The physio thinks the GP is supposed to do that referral, and also that the meds change could take months to make a difference. And I tried to point out…
Rhythms, routines and 21 rituals.
I’m pretty sure I’ll have talked on this site before about rhythms, and routines, but probably not that much about rituals. That’s because up until this week, they haven’t been a large part of my life. But on Thursday afternoon, browsing the library while Smallest was at art club, I came across Theresa Cheung: 21…
Cytonic by Brandon Sanderson
Disclosure – links to bookshop.org on this blog are affiliate links. Other booksellers are available. Today I’m really pleased to be taking part in the Cytonic blog tour for the latest instalment in the Skyward series by Brandon Sanderson. Spensa’s life as a Defiant Defense Force pilot has been far from ordinary. She proved herself…
