Confessions of a displaced hedgehog

A displaced hedgehog is a figure - or rather an image - from Tove Jansson's Moomin books. This is how I can best describe myself. This blog is mostly about being displaced.

Tuesday, 29 June 2010

Horticultural achievements

When I invented the word "hortotherapy" some years ago, I didn't know it existed. Seems to be a well-established idea. My inte...

Academic update

So what has been going on in academic life since April? April is, as I have mentioned, a bit of a dead season, and it didn't get better ...

A question of audience

I haven't blogged for a long, long time. I should have written: This blog is finished, thank you for your attention. My youngest s...

Sunday, 11 April 2010

Vacations are for students, not for teachers

Today is the last day of my so-called off-term time, aka research period. Don't even try to call it a break or still less vacation. A fr...

Saturday, 10 April 2010

Recap

It's a year since we moved into this house. (Staffan says it's a year and a day, but I am not that particular). Almost every day we ...

Thursday, 8 April 2010

Going green

As a contrast to my previous post: since the longest winter in my life (or so it feels) is eventually over, I take every opportunity to be i...

Meta-moderation

It's marking time again, and I have been given a new task. Cross-course moderation. Now, don't misunderstand me, I do think students...

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