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Nice subversion of ‘place’.

Thursday, September 27th, 2007

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Fancy visiting Porthemmet beach, (The original site seems to be down at the moment.) looks great and sounds great…

If you are planning a trip to Cornwall then be sure to visit Porthemmet Beach. It is regarded as Cornwall’s best beach by both the Cornish people and frequent visitors to the county.

Situated in north Cornwall, Porthemmet is the largest beach in the county. Due to an influx from the Gulf Stream, Porthemmet has very warm waters and looks more like a tropical paradise than a beach in the UK.

But is it all that it seems? To reveal all, read this article from the Metro and the Independent. There has been a heated debate about whether this is actually funny, given that tourism is a major part of Cornwall’s economy. I wonder if we could do the same for Ilkeston?

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Mission Complete…

Thursday, September 27th, 2007

UK_Boards You may remember a competition asking people to vote for their favourite U.K. cities on a new Monopoly board. Glad to announce that Nottingham came third… even happier to see Derby near free parking. :) You can view an example of the new board on the website. I wonder whether this tells us anytime about the appeal of the cities, or do the results represent the ability of the settlements to mobilise their virtual communities…. one for discussion.

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Rivers and my experience with a tornado…

Monday, September 24th, 2007

_44134633_busdepot_damage203 Year 11, after a small, but necessary rant from me, on the repetitive theme of ‘important year’,  we started our new topic, coping with floods. Remember that this year is worth 50% of the course, thank you for handing your work in on time. (with the exception of those that were away, their due date is Monday 1st of October.) I will be looking over your work at the weekend and I’ll also blog in more detail about our first lessons on our topic. The day was particularly bad, very tired and this morning managed to walk into Nottingham through a tornado…. I just thought it was a bit wet and windy, I was much more worried about my hair! :) Some more information about this event can be found at the B.B.C. .

Survived another injection at the doctor’s, course complete, and visited home, where I had the usual education debates with my soon to be starting a PhD brother…

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Postcard Display

Thursday, September 20th, 2007

The postcard display is now complete and in the main Humanities area, thanks to all staff and students that contributed, Mrs Marston and her gang for putting it together, who ever thought coloured string could be so exciting, and Alan for the original idea. :)

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I have completed a statistical analysis of our travels which I’ll post over the weekend, sorry I left it on my desk tonight! :(

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Caption Competition…

Wednesday, September 5th, 2007

Just to let you all know that Miss Thornhill is safely installed in the American education system and working hard, but she is also finding time for some fun. Anyone willing to add a caption to this image? :)

In the Navy!

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Thanks for the postcards…

Wednesday, September 5th, 2007

180px-Skegness4web Thanks to all the staff, students and new students that sent the Geography Department postcards, we had fifty, over the coming weeks I’ll produce a display and associated statistics about our travels outside the new Humanities computer room. :)

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You what… Part.2

Thursday, August 30th, 2007

Nice answer, better than the last, with thanks Tom Biebrach.

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One last time-Send us a postcard…

Tuesday, August 28th, 2007

postbox In a brilliant idea blatantly ripped off from Alan, we would like students (future, present, and past), staff, and blog readers to send us a postcard from their holiday destination/s. Our intention is to use the postcards in our induction to Geography in Year.7.

For students, all postcards will be put into a hat, the first three out of the hat will receive a nice geographical prize. :)

I’ll report back on our findings later in the year.

Please send postcards to

The Geography Department,

K.H.C.T.C. 

Godfrey Drive,

Kirk Hallam,

Ilkeston,

Derbyshire, DE7 4HH.

United Kingdom.

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You what…

Tuesday, August 28th, 2007

 With thanks Catholicgauze.

 

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Geography of Outer Space…

Wednesday, August 22nd, 2007

As reported on the B.B.C. , Google Earth now allows you to view the night sky from your position on the Earth, it requires an update. I had a good exploration of the sky. :)

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