Getting an overview of Platforms and Tools and which ones I might want to look further into.
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Banana Panic
I admit to a problem with Bananas. It’s a love hate thing. I like eating them, but for some reason I can’t eat a whole one. Add to that, that I hate waste and love a bargain and you have a recipe for disaster!
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Guy Cooke - Master of Your Own Domain
How to Use the Enneagram System to Effectively Figure Out What You Want and Get It Now
The most important skill for 21st-Century success, in all areas of life, is knowing yourself and others. Going beyond surface-level understanding allows you to know how you work best and what makes you tick.
WEEK 2 - Opinion Forming
Forming some opinions about the course and how I see my path through it.
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It's an ill wind ....
Red sky in the morning, shepherd’s warning. Hurricane Lorenzo causing some stunning sunrises across the UK this morning.
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WEEK 2 - Snowdon App
Thinking about my app ideas in turn and considering their functionality, viability and potential.
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Upstairs, downstairs
One of those totally unplanned, unexpected moments, when I found myself below stairs at a fine house, near Bath, and finding ispiration for a book in little things.
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Sticky bit at the top
Welcome to my Creative Reflective Journal. This is a blog containing my research, ideas, processes and professional and personal development during my tw-year distance learning MA in Creative App Development at Falmouth University and is part of an accredited education programme through Falmouth University.
Module 1: App Development Strategies
Module 2: Live Brief Design and Development Project
Module 3: Individual Design and Development Project
Module 4: Co-Creative Design and Development Project
Module 5: Final Major Project
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WEEK 1 - Seeds....
I am wondering whether I have too many ideas, and if so, how might I narrow them down?
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WEEK 1 - Ideation
Exercise in devising an App idea but more importantly the concept of how it might work and be developed.
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WEEK 1 - Scoping
I think at this stage it’s about bringing my ideas a little closer to reality by deciding what can actually be achieved by the various platforms, languages and tools?
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Week 1: Tabula Rasa
And so it begins. Thoughts on starting the course, what I want to achieve and how I intend to approach the experience.
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The beginning of a Creative Reflective Journal for the Creative App Design MA course at Falmouth University
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Swan by the bridge over the Tyne in Haddington, East Lothian Photo © Bob Jones
The Swan on the Tyne
A swan by the bridge over the River Tyne in Haddington, East Lothian
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Motorway Services Mini Breaks!
That moment when you realise that the motorway service station is actually a nicer place to stay than your destination resort.
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Bara Brith
There’s nothing nicer on a stormy and very wet Summer’s day than a lovely slice of Bara Brith, smothered with butter and lovely cup of tea. But - which is the true Bara Brith? Is there a gold standard? The journey continues.
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This Day in History
82 years ago today, my mother was standing on top of Snowdon with her little brother and, according to a postcard she sent home from the summit, she couldn’t see for mist - much the same as today. The more things change, the more things stay the same.
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McDonnells Bar & Undertakers, Belmullet, County Mayo
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Ghosts of the Celtic Tiger
It’s estimated that there are 245,000 empty homes in Ireland, many on so called ‘Ghost Estates,’ built at a time of rapid economic growth. That surge came to an abrupt end in the financial crash of 2008. Some have suggested bulldozing them all away.
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Elderflowers: Photo © Bob Jones
Elderflower Champagne
Come the end of May, the kitchen was a hive of industry, mainly with us kids making Elderflower Champagne, much to our mother’s despair. What a mess. But the end result, flagons of beautifully fizzy fruity drink was always worth the chaos.
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Teisen Lap
This is a deliciously moist light fruit cake which seldom lasted long out of the oven, mainly because as kids we'd stand in line waiting for it to come out of the AGA, and then polish it off with a glass of full cream milk. It is best eaten while still warm. We also called it Drawer cake, but that's not the proper translation, and anyhow there seem to be so many different translations and recipes for it - Moist, Slab etc. But the name doesn't really matter does it if it tastes fantastic. We'll probably include some of the variants in the final cook book. This recipe unusually calls for some glacé cherries to be hurled into the mix.
Ingredients
12oz/375g Self Raising Flour
5oz/150g Margerine
6oz/180g Sugar
8oz/240g Mixed Dried Fruit
A handful of Glace Cherries
2 Eggs from Welsh hens
5floz/150ml Milk
Pinch of Ginger
Pinch of Nutmeg
Method
Rub the margarine into the flour. Add the fruit, chopped glacé cherries and sugar. Beat the eggs into the milk and add to the mixture. Sprinkle in the nutmeg and ginger and mix well. The mixture should drop off the spoon easily. Pour into a shallow tin, and bake in a low oven (250F or 130C). You'll need to watch it to make sure it doesn't burn on the top. Remove from the oven and consume instantly! (Although take care if it's very hot)
It's lovely with a glass of creamy milk, or perhaps some Barley Wine. One alternative is to steep the fruit in Barley Wine (and a teabag) to soak up the flavour. But this is naughty.
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