Estimated reading time: 13 minutes Lego kindly invited me to build a Fabuland ship for the prestigious Lego House in Denmark. Going blind in one eye has been the hardest year and this creative challenge absolutely helped me move forward. Read about the ‘Maid of Fabuland’ paddle steamer and one of the happiest days ever.

Estimated reading time: 3 minutes To celebrate Ada Lovelace Day 2024, I created two new colouring-in illustrations of notable Women in STEM – author and codebreaker Irene Jessie Brown, and geologist Charlotte Murchison. I also discuss AI enhancement tools and vision loss challenges associated with my design process.

Witch Lore and Scottish Castles: a Wikipedia Editathon On Friday 27th September we were joined by castle buffs and witchcraft enthusiasts to help us improve the representation of Scottish witchcraft and heritage on Wikipedia. Our Witch Lore and Scottish Castles editathon event saw people coming together in the Digital Scholarship Centre of the Main Library […]

“We are not minority languages, we are minoritised. And we are the global majority” – Tura Arutura, Social Justice activist, creative artist and dancer. At the end of September, I had the great good fortune to be invited to the Celtic Knot conference in Waterford, Ireland hosted by Wikimedia Ireland and Wikimedia UK. This conference […]

Since I last wrote after I returned from Wikimania, I have been working on getting version 2.0 of the website up to scratch! The new version of the website is set to launch this October, which meant there was a lot to get done before then.Firstly, the website framework was due for an upgrade from […]

Looking back at all my different Lego mosaics, I offer insights into the design process and provide full instructions for a variety of budgets. These digital and physical artworks have been used as open-education resources (OERs) for both personal and professional projects.

Get involved in Wiki Loves Monuments! Wiki Loves Monuments is an international photo competition which takes part throughout the month of September every year, and is supported by the nonprofit Wikimedia Foundation. You can see historic locations near you that are missing an image using our handy interactive map (red pins are locations without an […]

  On July 15th I returned as ‘Witchfinder General’ – Data Visualisation Intern for another 3 months of working on the Map of Scottish Accused Witches of Project. We are now 4 weeks in and I have lots to share.I went to my first ever conference – Wikimania! Wikimania is an annual conference hosted by […]

After a conversation with Tracey Madden in the dim and distant past, I’ve been more and more interested in the impact our services have on the environment.  Our Web and Communications Section in LTW have had some very talented ‘green’ interns this summer and I’ve been lucky enough to get …

On the 19th of July (past Friday) we had a global IT outage which impacted hospitals, trains, air travel, supermarkets and many other businesses.  It seems like it was caused by a small/inconspicuous update to a bit of anti-virus software for Windows operating systems which seemed to ‘break’ Windows.  Although …