George is Penny's cousin, currently Head Master at the International School in San Salvador, and back in the UK for a couple of weeks with Carys, seeing family and being reminded of the English summer!
They were staying in Manton Cottage, and we drove over for lunch and a tour of Rutland Water. Cary's lunch, with a nod towards Jamie magazine (the boy is omnipresent!), of Spanish Omelette, and a rocket, parma ham, goats cheese, olive salad was followed by strawberries and cream (and blueberries and ice cream) - what could be better!
Lunchtime talk was about retirement, facebook, google+, pasta (check out their son Mark's Carrasco Pasta blog!) but mainly about on-line learning (the fact that you can't simply transfer a taught course to an online course) as well as itunes-u and sloan-c. But inevitably, we came around to the topic of the week, which was the importance of interdisciplinary interactions, and how you might design on-line teaching modules (which may be used by various disciplines) to feedback comments, solutions, ways of working etc, across the board.
But as the storm clouds gathered we did a tour of Rutland Water, driving to a number of points to see nature reserves, bird watching sites, water sports facilities, as well of course, as tea rooms...
The soundtrack to this outing, I think had to be Lord Rockingham's XI 'Hoots Mon' as Rockingham, Rockingham Castle, and the Rockingham Motor Speedway are just down the road...
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