http://www.whitegauntlet.com.au/harriet Harriet Jordan Thu, 16 Jul 2009 12:07:15 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en We flew from Newcastle to Jersey on Flybe. I had been very nervous about the weight restrictions - because of my Qantas Club membership, I had come to the UK with 30 kgs of checked baggage, but Flybe only allows 20kgs, and charges a lot for excess baggage. Before I ... http://www.whitegauntlet.com.au/harriet/?p=138 I’m now more than a week behind in writing up our holiday. However … Given that we only had a day at Hadrian’s Wall, we couldn’t see everything we wanted, so we concentrated on just a few things. We started with the Procolitia Fort and Temple of Mithras. The Fort is ... http://www.whitegauntlet.com.au/harriet/?p=137 Because we had left things to the last minute in deciding whether to go to Edinburgh or Glasgow, we didn’t have any accommodation organised in advance. After spending an evening of running various web searches, I ended up just booking into the same place I stayed when I was in ... http://www.whitegauntlet.com.au/harriet/?p=136 From Inverness, we meandered south to Edinburgh, stopping overnight in Ballachulish (near Glen Coe). This time, we drove down the east side of Loch Ness, along the more picturesque, less populated B862. Again, because it was early in the morning it was very quiet and the Loch looked lovely and misty. We ... http://www.whitegauntlet.com.au/harriet/?p=135 There were a few things we wanted to see around Inverness, so we set off bright and early in the morning. Our first destination was Urquhart Castle, on the west bank of Loch Ness. The road down had lots of stopping places to view the Loch, which looked lovely in the ... http://www.whitegauntlet.com.au/harriet/?p=134 The conference finished at lunchtime on Thursday. We had picked up our hire car that morning, so we were able to set off as soon as we had finished lunch. We drove as far as Inverness, stopping on the way at Kildrummy and Glenbuchet castles. We had wonderful sunny weather, ... http://www.whitegauntlet.com.au/harriet/?p=133 The Information: Interactions and Impact conference ran from 22-25 June - three half days and a full day. I attended the following sessions: Knowing and learning in organizations: Information and the enactment of meaning, knowledge and decisions (Keynote address) Teachers’ Conceptions of Teaching and ... http://www.whitegauntlet.com.au/harriet/?p=132 I’m resurrecting my blog to cover our four week holiday in the UK, which incorporates a conference, a fencing competition and some driving around the Scottish Highlands. The flight over was not quite as horrible as usual. We managed to get upgraded to Premium Economy, which meant much wider seats, with ... http://www.whitegauntlet.com.au/harriet/?p=131 A while ago, I offered to review two “Real Reads” retellings of Jane Austen for the Jane Austen Society of Australia journal. Unfortunately my review, plus those of the people reviewing the other books in the series, took up far more space than the editor could justify allocating to them, ... http://www.whitegauntlet.com.au/harriet/?p=130 I believe in its original incarnation, The Beggar’s Opera was quite a searing look at 18th century society. The same cannot be said of its reworking into The Convict’s Opera. The basic premise is that a number of prisoners on a convict ship bound for Australia are given permission to put ... http://www.whitegauntlet.com.au/harriet/?p=129