Granddaughter's first year as a Year 3 teacher went well. She's a natural.

This point needs to be made over and again: The main purpose of wealth taxes should not be to raise revenue. That's a small and secondary benefit. The main purpose should be to *reduce the fortunes of the ultrarich*. Why? Because those fortunes present a massive threat to democracy and public life.

When in London, I like to visit The Bar at the Folies-Bergere at the Courtauld Gallery.

Lindisfarne, with original member Rod Clements, delight Broadstairs last night.

This is Scruffy, our tame squirrel.

Brilliant live version of Rough Boy from Slim of the Hamsters. #guitars youtube.com/watch?v=8kxN...

Unusual photo of The Clash unearthed to share with fans of this influential group #TheClash

The Albion Band play Canterbury tonight. Simon Care, Simon Nicol, Kellie While, and Ashleigh Hutchings continue a distinguished folk tradition.

Medieaval Baebes delight at Sandwich Arts Centre tonight.

St Agnes Fountain bring close folk harmonies to Maldon tonight.

Wonderful detail in a Caneletto painting at the Wallace Collection today.

John Constable's paintbox, as seen in the Gainsborough House Museum, Sudbury today. #art #artists

For #Beatles fans. My go at George Harrison's backward guitars in 'I'm only sleeping' at this link: www.new-media-learning.com/Backwards_sn... I reversed George's original backward guitar, learned both guitar parts, recorded them, reversed them and pasted them into my version of the song. #guitars

We are sponsoring Great Danes Lions Under-13 football team. Nice shirts.

We are exhibiting at the Schools & Academies Show at the NEC, Birmingham Today. Come along and meet the team and see 4Matrix Cloud in action! #SAAShow

We have been developing 4Matrix Cloud over 4 years to be the most advanced performance data system for schools and Trusts. See it at the #SAAShow NEC, 20th November.

My father was an artist, known for his wood engravings. My homage to his memory was creating an online gallery of his work www.JamesBostock.com

I am finding that the Aljazeera App is providing me with the broadest and most objective World news.

A rather beautiful Objet d'Art from Waitrose. If you wish to do more than look at it then here is a great recipe. waitrose.com/ecom/recipe/sa

This is Nimes town, France last Summer. Trees provide shade, regulate the heat, and absorb CO2.

It was easy to bring over people I follow from Twitter using this extension.

This is Kebbels Seafood Bar in Broadstairs. A favourite of ours. I thought this was a nice picture to share.

Gave up on BBC News and the Times since they lurched Right. Like the Guardian for its view of society, love The European for articles you can learn from. Enjoy Byline Times for its Thinking Man's politics. And Al Jazeera TV to see the other view of conflict. No more filters on how I see the World.

A tourist from Twitter here. Seems a nice place to visit!

Thought for the day: 'Every little decision that you make takes your life towards a different future.'