Voyaging Mind

Over the weekend it was my birthday. Yay for surviving another year. Boo for a total lack of productivity as long weekend always produce. It did give my brain a bit of a break from coding. That does not mean my brain stopped working. I added a couple of game idea to my list of ones I would like to make at some point. My children are on their Easter break and all promptly came down ill. The oldest did show me what the scratch project he has been working on. We did a bit of pair programming to add a couple of features he wanted to add. Until then I had not looked at scratch much - well at all if I am honest. My eldest two had shown a slight interest in programming (them being 6 and 8 years old) and I showed them a bit of java. Printing out times tables and so on and that amazed them that it could work them out so fast. They even tried making it do the 17 times table to see if it would struggle! A little while later (about a month) we installed scratch on our computers and purcha

Technically the title is wrong but tradition often beats the truth. All blogs should start with a title called "First Post". The reality is I used to have a bit of a tech blog here that fell to the wayside a long time ago.  As I still like the title I decided to re-purpose it for something different. Well different from what it was but not really different when it come to the internet.  It is going to be a bit of a life blog. Nothing special and if you are reading this then you may well be lost on the internet. It is probably late and you would be better off asleep.  Seriously I am totally writing this for myself as an outlet for my small but  persistent  desire to write. A desire that exceeds my ability to compose interesting  narrative . I desire to write as it helps to think with clarity. I am not really sure on the cadence of the post or really what will be posted. knowing me it will probably involve some recipes. I like cooking. It is also bound to get a bit me