I've always used doodles, drawings and diagrams as part of my note-taking process, but after discovering sketchnotes / visual note-taking through Sacha Chua's blog, I've started illustrating my notes much more deliberately, and legibly, with the intention of making them something I can share. Here's a sketchnote from this week, which I've tidied … [Read more...]
Archives for November 2013
The question that ‘What Does The Fox Say?’ really asks
Have you seen What Does The Fox Say? yet? If not, here it is - you'll need to have experienced it before we begin to deconstruct it. After watching it a few times over the last week with my kids, it's become obvious that within the inane chatterings and costume-play, the singer Ylvis - our protagonist - is actually asking an important … [Read more...]
My Nan’s pumpkin pie recipe
My kids really got excited about carving pumpkins this year (you'll see from the photo that they went for a Minecraft theme). So I bought three, one of which was a real whopper. It meant we had a lot of pumpkin flesh to eat. Nearly 5 lbs of the stuff in fact. While looking for pumpkin pie recipes, I discovered that my mum still had my nan's … [Read more...]