Clare's Rebel Badge Blog

Book List Non-Fiction: 25/2/22     " Ancestors: The Prehistory of Britain in Seven Burials" Professor Alice Roberts  27/3/22     " The Bad Girls Guide to Better" Casey Beros                                                                      Biography: 30/1/22     "Reasons to Stay Alive" Matt Haig     4/3/22       "The Wisdom of Tea" Noriko Morishita  13/4/22     "Intimations: six essays" Zadie Smith   Fiction: 13/4/22     "Intimations: six essays" Zadie Smith   8/4/22       "Summer Water" Sarah Moss   11/4/22     "Just Like You" Nick Hornby 18/4/22     "Death of a Nurse" M C Beaton 22/4/...

 I am probably not going to post much on here as some of it rather personal. However, the badges I designed are here: Cipher Cracker Learn to use Caesar Cipher, Substitution cipher, keyword substitution cipher, Affine cipher, Vigénere Cipher and be able to crack them without using a computer program. Complete at least the first 5 challenges from The National Cipher Challenge ( www.cipherchallenge.org ) Use either the current year or one from the archives. Write a guide to cracking the Vigénere Cipher. Create a cipher challenge of your own using at least 5 different ciphers and codes. Geometric Artist Over at least 3 months complete at least three tutorials (online, class or book) on Islamic geometry, Celtic knotwork or Gothic tracery. Share your work with the group. Which tools do you need to create these designs? Create a gift/ product from one of your designs. Mathematician Algebra: learn how to simplify an expression with at least two variables, and how to solve a three-step equ...

  Things I am good at: Maths Codebreaking Listening Gardening Teaching Things I could improve on: Planning for work Home organisation Time management Spending time with friends Morse Code knowledge. Use one of your talents to help others Helped friends and family with their gardens. Showed J how to use Blogger. Made a spreadsheet for S. to be used as a To Do list. Really liked it so made a copy for myself which is still evolving. Showed a colleague how to make a simple geometric creation so they could teach it. Choose another talent and share it Share geometric creations on Insta with patreon community. This is done monthly after the patreon course I take part in #samiramianpatreon Choose an improvement and pursue SMART targets over three months. Morse Code (from April 2022) See table below.   Choose another improvement and read a book/ app/ take a class to help you. Read 'Four Thousand Weeks: Time Management for Mortals. This was a fascinating book, turning the usual rules of...

Regular meet-ups with Island Rebels to discuss Rebel Badge Club in particular, and work on individual badges, starting in April 2022. Quizzes at the local hospice to raise funds; we came third the first time (with stiff competition) and won the second time against the only other team, who put up a good fight! We are going to continue attending these quizzes and attend others at local cafes. #TeamHop-Goblin. #Fundraising We also met up to discuss a book for bookclub - The Cure by KA Riley - and finished off the Reader Badge. #Reader I have also worked with a fellow rebel on Community Service badge, helping her run events for the Scout Active Support Unit.

Gig: Rachel McShane and the Cartographers I went to see this band one quiet Thursday evening with a friend, at Quay Arts Centre, Newport. We were both surprised by how few people were in the audience given the reputation of the band. Rachel McShane sang, and played both violin and viola, and was ably accompanied bon the melodeon by Julian Sutton, and on acoustic guitar by a chap who wasn't the advertised Matthew Ord! All three were exceptional musicians, making everything look ridiculously easy, while entertaining us with a good variety of songs, making us join in choruses, and making us laugh between songs. This was an excellent night out that I would happily do again. Book: Summer Water by Sarah Moss This book came highly recommended by a friend. It is a collection of short stories told by different people staying in a remote, dilapidated holiday village in the Highlands of Scotland. It gives an insight in to the everyday misery and monotony of ordinary people and families. There...