essential skills lab – part 3: how to draw a line
This is the basic building block of many things – writing, drawing, architecture – so you better get it right! Practice this! A lot!
View Articleessential skills lab – part 4: how to tie your shoes
Generally, if you want to go anywhere, you need to use your feet. If you need to use your feet, you generally need shoes. Shoes generally need to be tied to your feet, so they don’t fall off when...
View Articleessential skills lab – part 5: making toast
Cooking is an essential skill. Did you know we’re the only animal on earth that cooks their food before eating it? The freaky thing about toast, is that it gets cooked twice (like those fancy potato...
View Articleessential skills lab – part 6: maths
Maths is really important. What’s the basic building block of maths? Numbers. Numbers are made up of 10 digits from 0 to 9. Remember those, and your well on your way to understanding really tricky...
View Articleessential skills lab – part 7: change a tyre
… well, a wheel really, cos the tyre’s on the wheel, and your changing the wheel, which incorporates the tyre – but that’s getting into technicalities that probably only interest tyre/wheel changing...
View Articleessential skills lab – part 8: build stonehenge
Religion seems to be a fundamental part of the human condition – don’t ask me why, because I don’t understand it at all. However, since pre-history, people across the globe have turned to religion to...
View Articleessential skills lab – part 9: getting up
Life can throw many a curve ball. Often you fall down, but it’s not whether you fall down, it’s whether you can get back up. Getting back up can be hard, particularly if you’ve never practiced. So I...
View Articleessential skills lab – part 10: copyright maths
Now we live in a digital world, where the majority of content is delivered over the internets. But you don’t get something for nothing, and copyright ensures that this maxim holds true in the digital...
View Articleessential skills lab – part 11: crossing a river
Even if you are extremely lucky, life will place many obstacles in your path – both literal and metaphorical. If one of those obstacles happens to be a river, this is a pretty handy trick to pull out...
View Articleessential skills lab – part 12: advanced line drawing; let’s get dotty
I’ve already presented a skills lab on drawing lines. Now we move on to more advanced techniques. Dotted lines are important when you want … to insert a pause in a sentence, or leave someone …… They’re...
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