Positive Education

by Paul Parry | Jul 11, 2019 | 0 comments

The book I’ll self-publish before the end of this year is the 11th I’ll have worked on in some capacity. What’s it about? Good question. It touches on: Personal battles Family relationships Parenting Impostor syndrome Fulfilling potential Formal education,...

What U Need

by Paul Parry | Jul 10, 2019 | 0 comments

I found an image on my laptop recently that’s pretty useful: If only I’d seen it before 2007, when I embarked on training to be a driving instructor but really wanted to be a professional writer.What I had was two plan As – one ridiculous and the...

Broken Stones

by Paul Parry | Jul 9, 2019 | 0 comments

I log in to this site to publish this post and decide to look more closely, finally, at the SSL errors that are showing. When looking at the front of the site, as you are now, it’s not at all obvious that there’s a problem: But on the inside, errors are...

Funky Kingston

by Paul Parry | Jul 8, 2019 | 0 comments

I came across a site today which was great for cropping images: befunky.com: Just type in the dimensions you need, click the box to lock the aspect ratio, then maybe move the grid to get the best part of the image, then hit save. Job...

Figure It Out

by Paul Parry | Jul 7, 2019 | 0 comments

It’s Sunday evening, I’m relaxing at home and I have a decision to make that’s testing my patience: Is the comment that’s just arrived on this very blog genuine or a load of old spam?     What are the signs that it might be rubbish?...