Author: Ross Wintle

  • Sketching: a history of art

    2014-06-23

    I've decided to try and learn to sketch. I'm going to tell you why and to describe my thoughts as I go. Here's some history and an introduction.

  • Letting go – a parenting revelation

    2014-05-16

    I don’t write much about parenting and Isaac. This isn’t a parenting blog. But something has happened recently which has been quite monumental and I think it’s worth writing about. Background There’s a bit of background needed here. The first thing is that we’ve taken an approach to parenting that fits a lot of the […]

  • Politics Part 3: Labour and Energy

    2014-01-11

    Magically fixing train fares and energy costs seem to me to be populist electioneering policies. There are bigger things we need to fix. Who's going to tackle those for us?!

  • Politics Part 2: The Lords

    2014-01-11

    Thoughts on how the unelected and undemocratic House of Lords are bring some sensibility to the political table of late.

  • The Treachery of Code

    2013-12-11

    I think we should teach people to write code that's meaningful and understandable. It's my opinion that neither JavaScript nor CodeAcademy's new app are good tools for doing that.

  • Snail

    2013-10-17

    Snail!