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Here I am at the start of 2026 and looking at all the “2025” blog posts from lovely people out there.

So I’m no particular lover of LinkedIn (or much social media these days) but for reasons various and professional I am compelled to dip in there on a semi-regular basis and inevitably do find things that otherwise might have passed me by.

After a productive early morning call with my excellent OSI colleagues and a satisfying burst of administrivia deck-clearing, I made a second cup of coffee and settled down to read this morning’s HESA blog post from Alex Usher.

My neighbours here in Vancouver are flying a small Canadian flag where they often fly a rainbow flag and whilst I don’t love why it’s important today beyond the anniversary of the flag itself, I can’t be sad to see it reclaimed as a symbol from those idio…

I spent a very happy few hours this week in the Edinburgh Futures Institute for a conversation about the state of *all the things* in edtech, during which a conversation about updating a learning analytics policy I was involved in years ago came up.

This week has been my substantial back-to-work for 2025 and I’m aware that I’ve not said much about what “work” is for me these days.

A few years ago I was introduced to the Pirate Care Syllabus via a chat group with some edtech pals and whilst I was putting a good few rows on hat number 3 this morning I stumbled across an interview with the authors of a recent book on the same topic via

I gifted the second hat of winter last night whilst out for birthday dinner with friends.

I spent this morning in the pottery studio (shout out to Linlithgow Pottery and the amazing Hepzibah Kilbride) trimming down and playing about with a rather dodgy bowl I threw about a week ago.

It’s coming that time of the year when I feel wistful and whimsical, and inevitably revisit the blog post I failed to finish *last year* reflecting on the year that was.