Happy Birthday Charles

6 02 2009
Next Thursday is the 200 year anniversary of the birth of Charles Darwin. We’ve been working, though our Growing Roots project, with RBG Kew, who in turn have received funding from the Wellcome Trust, and have produced some really good looking resources to encourage children explore wildlife and plants. Today my colleague Anita sent out a link to the resources.

As she says “Our fab ‘Growing Roots’ project officer in the South East is working in partnership with RBG Kew and has spent the last few months putting her blood, sweat and tears into them…Utilise these downloadable resources for family events, pick up and go activities for half terms or embrace for Wild Child activities…The webpages have only just gone live in the last few hours…
 

 




Project management

5 02 2009

It’s late and I should be getting into bed, but at last Friday’s meeting, someone mentioned Basecamp, and that made me think about collaboration software, and that let me to Project Pier. I toying with the idea of, when I return to my CLV job, using this to keep my disparate team and client properties in touch with each other and our projects. Just toying with it at the moment.





Not going to work today

2 02 2009

Snow, deeper than I’ve seen it since I was a little boy, January 1976. The two main roads between here and work are closed. And there are abandonded cars all over local hills. So I’m working from home.