Category: Education

Writing, blogging on the train from Georgia into Azerbaijan in 2013

Real Travel Blogging🧑🏼‍💻Is ONLY About Travelling🌎And Writing📝✍️: Firing Clickbait Traffic🚦Gimps Into Oblivion

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“Give me one more chance and you’ll be satisfied. Give me two more chances and you won’t be denied. Even better than the real thing” – U2. Even in December 2024 as the AI Revolution threatens to kill book writing, blogging and any form of human brain creativity and separatism, I still come across internet Read more about Real Travel Blogging🧑🏼‍💻Is ONLY About Travelling🌎And Writing📝✍️: Firing Clickbait Traffic🚦Gimps Into Oblivion[…]

10 Lessons Learned From 17 Years Of Travel Blogging

17 Lessons Learned From 17 Years Of Travel🌎🤳🏻Blogging💻📝👩‍💻

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“I’m just a notch in your bedpost, but you’re just a line in a song” – Fall Out Boy. It’s the 3rd of November 2024. This travel blog started in on the 27th of August 2007 – well over 17 years – Wow! Sometimes it doesn’t even feel like it has been 17 years of Read more about 17 Lessons Learned From 17 Years Of Travel🌎🤳🏻Blogging💻📝👩‍💻[…]

Jonny Blair’s✍️📝Wactionary (Wacky Dictionary)📚📖📕📜 2024 Edition

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Wactionary (Wacky Dictionary) Rough translation guide from Northern Irish and Jonny Blairish intill English: acronymically – in the form of an acronym whereby the first letters of each word in the sequence are placed together one after the other to form a new word afforequoted ­­– quoted before aftermathically – in the aftermath and worked Read more about Jonny Blair’s✍️📝Wactionary (Wacky Dictionary)📚📖📕📜 2024 Edition[…]

Backpacking In Abu Dhabi: 15 Years Too Late For "GlobCom"

Finally Backpacking In Abu Dhabi: 15 Years Too Late For “GlobCom”

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“But it’s too late, baby, now it’s too late” – Carole King. “Forever, ever delayed” – Richey James Edwards. “It’s a black fly in your Chardonnay” – Alanis Morrisette. Glory days unloyal here. Not everything in this life works out. We forfeit, we miss, regret and this was one. You see in September 2023 I Read more about Finally Backpacking In Abu Dhabi: 15 Years Too Late For “GlobCom”[…]

20 Years Later: How My Life Changed Forever 26th September 2003

20 Years Ago Today: How My Life Changed Forever On Friday 26th September 2003

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“What you leave behind, you don’t miss anyway” – Paul Hewson. Friday 26th September 2003. That’s twenty years ago today. Madness. This was the day when life unknowingly all changed for me. It did for me and it could for you too and you will never expect that. I certainly wasn’t ready for a new Read more about 20 Years Ago Today: How My Life Changed Forever On Friday 26th September 2003[…]

Working Wednesdays: Teaching English in Hong Kong Kindergartens

Five Exciting Career Options for Those with an Outdoor Education Degree

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A few years ago (2016), the US GDB received $373.3 billion from outdoor recreation, outpacing contributions from the mining and utility sectors. These stats clearly indicate that the outdoor education sector is still growing. According to The Statesman Journal, outdoor recreation grew at a rate of 3.8%, above the 2.8% growth of the entire economy. Read more about Five Exciting Career Options for Those with an Outdoor Education Degree[…]

15 Years Ago This Month: Front Page Of The Times – I Work In Bite Communications

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“You’re getting off at Ravenscourt Park for Bite Communications” – Jonny Blair (2007). Whether the high flying life of London city and the world of PR was for me or not is history’s garbage tin. It was 15 years ago this month, I softly slipped away from the world of office work and the bright Read more about 15 Years Ago This Month: Front Page Of The Times – I Work In Bite Communications[…]

Staying At Home: Top 5 Football Podcasts To Listen To

Staying At Home: The Best Football Podcasts To Listen To

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“England Wednesday. Sheffield Saturday” – Chris Woods Advert (1990s). When I worked in the “high flying” PR industry in London from 2006-2007, I was into Podcasts a lot. I downloaded lots of them and always listened to them on the tube on my way to work and back. It was a sweet release from the Read more about Staying At Home: The Best Football Podcasts To Listen To[…]