This is a recipe for christmas. I’ve never even tasted mulled wine before so this crimbo I bought some to try it out. Now I’m not a wine person generally but I wanted to see if mulled wine is any different in case I’m missing out. Turns out I’m not really cos it’s quite dry like most wines but then …
Ok, so the last couple of articles have been a bit intense. So I’m gonna lighten the mood. I just had a terrific meal and so I have to share. Sorry that I didn’t take a pic but I’d started eating before I remembered. What I really want to share is how darn easy it was. I’ve been working on …
Deep stuff eh. Again I’m just trying to make the point that balance is everything. Sleep is a big part of life and it needs to be. Western culture doesn’t really value sleep that much. There are so many things to do with your time. Sleep is so often considered a waste of it. So could the amount of sleep …
I’m a self directed learner. I’m not one for the whole course or module mentality. Mainly because, now that I work, I just don’t have the time or the patience to commit to such a slow process of learning. Particularly when you only get the grade at the end. You have to devote months of your life to the possibility …
funding is one of those key things that underpin learning and teaching. In funding education, a novel approach I explain how you could use the latest payment approaches to fund new learning tools. Rather than apply for big grants and go through the related bureaucracy. In this age of empowerment you could just deliver a tool and provide cheap simple options to …
So what’s this blog about? I’m into learning. Every time I want to get some thing done I need to figure out how to get it done, I need to learn something, and I need to find good teachers. I did physical education for A level and degree, I coach and basically like teaching because it’s a form of helping …
Part of making food fun is banishing hunger. When I’m celebrating, say at Christmas, I want to eat what I want. No restrictions. Then after in the new year and other times I still want to enjoy food but eat less of it and restore the balance to my weight. Sounds simple but, if you’ve actually tried it, you’ll know …
The title of this blog is a give away. It’s about having fun. Here’s a post I wrote a while ago that describes part of the journey I’ve taken to put having fun at the forefront of a successful life. This is becoming more and more relevant in my life as I see the effects of the decision to make …
ok, I won’t always talk about food but since you get 3 chances a day to treat yourself I like to make sure that atleast once it feels like a treat. This time the treat was in how quick and easy it was to make. The ingredients weren’t designed to match perfectly like a recipe. I do that a lot. …
Another way of making meals full of taste but simple to make is to mix cooking methods. I’m being very liberally in my use of the term cooking method. Tonight I used a roasted chicken breast that i’d frozen a few weeks ago from a freshly roasted chicken i’d bought from the supermarket. Rather than defrost it I tried a …
This blog is about bringing fun into life as much as possible. Exploring the ways you can do this is, in itself, part of the fun and part of the journey. I found a whole new way of making food fun when I watched a bunch of cooking shows and realised that a meal is often a key ingredient or …
So here I am with a new blog. Quite excited really. I’ve been keeping my original blog http://colchambers.blogspot.com/ for a few years now and really enjoyed it. That’s for my general stuff though. With this blog I want to explore ways of making life simpler and more fun. The journey I’ve taken in life has been all over the place. Plenty …
Blimey, this is a fascinating video. I agree with everything Sir Ken Robinson is talking about and I really appreciate him summing so much up in just 10 minutes. Right. Now I’ve got the right message. I’m off to change the world.
I don’t normally talk about the OU in my blog but today I have a burning issue that I feel I just need to express. In fact I’ve got a few but I’ll see what I manage to express here and save the rest for later. Why is the OU so afraid of the very thing it was created to …
How often is it that you find a video of someone expressing the exact view you’ve had of something. It’s increasingly common these days but not exactly everyday is it. That’s what I got what I discovered sir Paul Nurse’ talk explaining the notion that Organisms are information networks. The idea that dna is basically a data storage mechanism, that you can …
So I played my first matchplay today down at Sutton tennis academy. Thought I’d record it here for reference later. I’d been playing badly all week so I wasn’t very confident going in. My shots lacked rhythmn and my serve was a nightmare. I kept double faulting. The week before I had been playing so well and I was really …
Just read this article and, like the author, I’ve seen this happen enough to feel it’s a pattern worth recording. I can’t say I’ve been dealing with mp’s but I find the same happens when you deal with managers who are just plain busy and rely on their staff to actually get the job done. You either get lucky and …
Just like mobile and social have come along and are now here to stay. I strongly believe that games and gaming styles are coming in the next few years. Here’s a great talk explaining why. Seth Priebatsch: The game layer on top of the world – Seth Priebatsch (2010): “By now, we’re used to letting Facebook and Twitter capture our …
Just had to pass on this short article about gaming as a teaching tool. I’ve grown up with games. But then games have been around for thousands of years and are often designed at their core to teach us something. Monopoly teaches basic maths and cncepts of buying and selling. Snap teaches about comparisons between objects in terms of looks …
I’ve felt for quite a while now that the arrival of the internet will eventually lead to a fundamental revolution in how we work. I was reminded by the article Innovation:Online army turns the tide on automation of Amazon Mechanical Turk, an example of how this might play out. At the same time I also feel that this could lead to …