The Plashing Vole

This week has mostly been consumed with rage about this advert, shamefully retweeted by University English on behalf of the British Library...

Just a quick one about this week's reading. 1. Finished Richard Adams's Maia . Dreadful in almost every way, and for 1000+ pages. ...

'Pob lwc, Wayne' 'Diolch yn fawr iawn…scheisse!' Why am I mistranslating a famous scene from The Great Escape ? In honour...

I met my reader the other day, and he asked me why, as someone with a full spectrum of facile opinions and a Labour Party card, I haven'...

Apologies for the break in transmission. The beginning of the year included massive amounts of teaching, marking and admin, helping with t...

I have a friend whom we'll call Gary, because that's his name. When I got to know him, he was the university's copyright officer...

Well it has been an interesting couple of weeks since last I posted. Christmas came and went (siblings' children, saw friends, ate calor...

Well here I am in the office alone, because the student who asked for a tutorial has stood me up, and all of my colleagues are curled up in ...

You find me relatively full of festive cheer today. Despite spending an hour in the ring with my vindictive dentist – someone clearly prey t...

Well, it took me until Tuesday night to submit 17 amended Course Specification Templates (see last weeks's despairing rant), laboriously...

This afternoon, I am filling in a Course Specification Template to delete a couple of modules and add a couple of new ones. It's 23 page...

No time for coherent thought this week, beyond the minimum necessary required to get through classes ( Paradise Lost  and Tales of the City ...