Category Archives: Personal

Recap

There are few things more tiresome than the blogger who apologises for a lack of posts, so I will refrain from falling into that trap. In some ways I am sure that the decrease in blogging is just a symptom of trying to keep my head above water in a new profession, and in a [...]

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Soul Survivor 2010 – Hope

We interrupt this complete lack of posts, to remind anyone and everyone that the Soul Survivor Festival is less than a month away, and if you’re in Melbourne-ish between April 7 – 11 you’d be mad not to at least drop by for a couple of days. Plus if you’re registering for the whole time [...]

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Life

So I realised that despite still getting regular visits, this blog has been remarkably dead for the last however long (last post on Jan 14 is a joke!). Must admit that at the moment life has been taking precedence, and with a tonne of my head-space being taken up with ruminations about teaching and a [...]

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Inspired by Freire

Being inspired (and distracted) by Paulo Freire. “No pedagogy which is truly liberating can remain distant from the oppressed by treating them as unfortunates and by presenting for their emulation models from among the oppressors” “This concept is well suited to the purposes of the oppressors, whose tranquility rests on how well people fit the [...]

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Geoff’s Glühwein

This is normally more of a Bec thing to do – but it’s Christmas so why not have a go. With this year’s Christmas being a relatively chilly one, I decided that our Christmas Eve celebrations should involve my favourite German Christmassy tradition: Glühwein (mulled wine). Geoff’s Glühwein recipe 2 bottles of whatever Red Wine [...]

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