Just over a month to go to this course at Leeds University Geography Department...

9:00 - 9:30	Registration and Coffee	Foyer, Geography Main Building
9:30 - 9:45	Welcome & Introduction	Lecture Theatre, Geography East
9:45 - 11:00 Choice of Seminars	What’s happening to the rainforests? Dr Tim Baker The geography of retail dynamics. Prof Graham Clarke	Lecture Theatre, Geography East / TBC
11:00 - 11:30	Coffee break
11:30 - 12:45 Choice of Seminars	The fate of urban public space? Dr David Bell, Dr Sara González, Dr Robert Vanderbeck Who says computers and water don’t mix? Dr Steve Carver	Lecture Theatre, Geography East GIS Lab, Geography East
12:45 - 13:30	Buffet Lunch	Foyer, Geography Main building
13:30 - 15:00	The UK energy debate Dr Frances Drake	Lecture Theatre & Computer Clusters
15:00 - 15:15	Tea/coffee break
15:15 - 16:15	Current challenges in the relationship between (physical) geography at school and at university: A need for a new perspective? Dr Chris Keylock	Lecture Theatre, Geography East
16:00 - 16:30	Closing Session - where next?	Lecture Theatre, Geography East

See some of you there I hope...

In a slightly recursive way, this blog post is a blog post about a blog post which features me and my blog posts... and also my new post...
Thanks to Ollie Bray for his kind words on his blog about my new job, and the "new vision"

On the Single Malt front, my bottle of Ardbeg Correyvreckan has been delayed, but I hope to get hold of it soon: perhaps in time for some celebratory drams. I'll bring the last bit up to the SLF, Ollie.

Just back from a quick trip down to Rochester and the Royal Naval Dockyards at Chatham, where I went with fellow "Pie Society" colleagues today. The weather was kind - thanks to "the Major" for driving the landship down...
Caught up with some nice ales from the NELSON BREWERY. I like the tagline: "England expects every man to drink our beer"...
Here's a few piccies from the day...

Over to Norwich yesterday to see Irish band ALTAN. Hadn't seen them for over 10 years - always seemed to miss them when they came to the area. Fantastic musicians, and peerless voice of Mairead.

More revision with Konnie

Some more Sky Learning Revision videos with Konnie Huq can be seen by following the link to SKY LEARNING.

This is a very interesting blog post and resource produced by Ollie Bray. It is related to the idea of CONNECTING SCHOOLS in the 21st Century. It suggests some interesting ways of connecting schools, and by extension departments, and teachers...

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Had e-mail from Laura at Sky Learning. I posted about the "6 Degrees could change the resources" in association with Richard Allaway (thanks for the pen by the way Rich...) and now they have some other revision resources...

Sky Learning has recently joined forces with former Blue Peter presenter and recent carrier of the Olympic Flame, Konnie Huq to provide some fun top tips on how to help cope with exams including suggested ways to help revise. Konnie has some great tips and advice from using acronyms, to singing along to revision notes or even setting up online study groups. Some of the tips really helped Konnie when she was learning so this is great, down to earth practical advice.

It's official, so I can tell everyone now...
This was me at the Advanced Google Earth day put on by Jamie Buchanan Dunlop at the RGS-IBG yesterday. Thanks to Yvonne, my partner for the day ...

Any idea what's going on here ? Answer to come shortly...

First of all, this is the 600th post on this blog. Hello to those who are regular readers (about 40 odd on most days...)

A few interesting bits in the Times today...
A mention of a new Joe Bennett book. Read a few of his books before. This one traces his pants to China.
Also a good feature in the magazine on the village fighting back.
Has a nice mocked up village sign image on the cover.
Would be useful for some 'AS' Rural Urban work.

A new tourist guide to the UK has been produced, and it includes some surprising (perhaps) descriptions of the country and its population.

The BBC ARTICLE includes some extracts from the updated ROUGH GUIDE.

What image does this give of ENGLAND.

Some amusing HAVE YOUR SAY comments already available.
Some of these pick up on CULTURAL ASPECTS of the UK

What do you think about these examples from the HAVE YOUR SAY section...
Which one would you MOST or LEAST agree with ?

1. Bacon butties, Sunday roast and chicken tikka massala

2. They missed out, uncouth, uncivil, uneducated, unmannered & prone to mindless street violence prefaced by the words "Wot you lookin at!!" I'd say that most of the world see's us like this, not the 'civilised islands of culture' that the BBC, and this Government like to portray as "This England" whilst happily lowering standards in all walks of life in the name of equality!

3. I think they have it pretty sussed, people buy all these trashy z list celeb mags why ill never know. they are a total waste of trees. People cant go out for a couple of drinks and act normally people just go out to get drunk because their lives are so sad and pathetic. Great britain certainly isnt great any longer

4. For all our overweight, binge-drinking, celebrity-obsessed TV addicts this is still the greatest country on earth. The people are second to none and sure we might not all agree on everything but they`re OUR people to fight with and nobody elses. And watch us all pull together in a crisis. What we have is unique in the world, heritage, history, the london taxi cab, the monarchy, the country pub, amazing countryside, bluebells, morris dancers, the list goes on. Be proud of who and what you are.

5. It describes a minority, the sort they love to parade on TV as though they are typical of society and if you're any different you're tragically old-fashioned.It doesn't describe the majority, who are still hard-working, decent, quiet people - you just don't hear about them, and they assist by not being natural attention-seekers.All nations have both types, it's not unique to England. This is just a cheap publicity stunt for the book. It won't make me feel ashamed to be English.