Progress with Work

A very encouraging message greeted me today, from a long time colleague about the Climate Change videos I produced last year. 

Hi John

I have just been looking at the lectures you produced on Climate change and felt compelled to say “nice one”! They are so good and I learned a lot, I need to speak about this with students tomorrow and you’ve made that much easier.

Thank you

That’s encouraged me to continue. One of the next ones will be illustrating water retention in hills. Take a plastic fish tank, a tray, a jug or two, some ice cubes, a couple of cheap car washing sponges and a load of plastic ducks. That’s for the next video. Or the one after.

Thing is, I’ve been collecting this information for years, now all I have to do is drag it out from where it’s hiding, somewhere on a couple of 4TB, a 2TB and a 1TB drive. Trouble is remembering what I’ve called them.

Other work today was putting together more of the work I’m expecting them to do after Easter. I must stop myself thinking “That’ll be good to include.” That’s the route to too much work for them.

On COVID, we have:

• Confidence that the AZ vaccine is safe and effective, from the WHO, the EU and our scientists.
• Paris on lockdown, as of Friday night, as they fear a third wave.
• Italy, Germany, France and Spain and others are now starting to use their AZ vaccines as they’re convinced that the protection outweighs any risks.
• There will be a shortfall of vaccines in April in the UK. But no appointments already made will be cancelled, which is OK for my second jab at the end of April.
• I’m looking at the data and the decline in cases is very slow. I wonder of the effect of schools going back is showing yet?

We’ll look at the data tomorrow.

Tomorrow there will be more writing and more teaching. The weekend MUST see more work on the bookshelves. And next week is the last teaching before Easter, when I’ll be taking some annual leave to try to get this place into shape.

Sun through the clouds, Wellsborough, this afternoon.

Music:

I was exchanging messages with a student who’s doing a dissertation on the music industry, and dragged these out of some correspondence I had with the person who did the visualisations

Thomas Tallis (1505-1585), Spem in alium (1570), ORA Singers, Suzi Digby, visualisations Stephen Malinowski

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