I've think I've had a turn...
A cultural turn...
Have been teaching a lot of Human Geography 'A' level this year for the first time in a while, and also teaching the GCSE Pilot for the first time, and also been drawn into various other projects and general 'stuff', and have been getting very much into some of the themes of (whisper it...) HUMAN geography having always been very much a PHYSICAL geographer.

Have been exploring issues to do with urban-rural interrelationships, population characteristics and changes, housing, social history, consumerism, ideas of national identity and cultural diversity, landscape change, trade and more recently immigration. Some fascinating stuff here. Look forward to getting some of this into the new KS3 units that we'll teach.

For example, consider my weekend reading: the last chapter of Lynsey Hanley's "ESTATES" and the first of Philippe Legrain's "IMMIGRANTS" (plus some Julian May 'Boreal Moon Trilogy' for light relief), an interesting article by Joan Bakewell in THE INDEPENDENT on house prices, and a chapter by Peter Jackson from Routledge's "The Changing Geography of the United Kingdom" on Cultures of Difference.
I think I need to get out into the hills again !