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Parenting and other fails – get me to class, now

Posted on May 18, 2012 by Cathy Dreyer — Leave a comment

Well, I don’t know about the rest of you, but I’m signing up for some parenting classes. Apparently, all you have to do is ingest a lot of illegal drugs and then the courses are free. David Cameron and his…

The self-cleaning loo and the origins of creativity

Posted on November 15, 2011 by Cathy Dreyer — 11 Comments

When we had just one baby, more than a decade ago, a book was published saying – again – that despite the gains of feminism, women were still doing far more cooking and cleaning at home than men. I heard…

Creativity and hats: when E De Bono met JK Rowling

Posted on November 11, 2011 by Cathy Dreyer — 8 Comments

All creativity is merely judicious plagiarism. Voltaire The other half of last week’s seminar was run by James Steel, a five-time published novelist, who challenged us to define creativity. I think I muttered something about mind maps and others talked…