Eclectic Imagination

Core Set 2020 Mini Set Review

Core Set 2020 has been a big success. The new cards have created archetypes in standard and the draft format is often referred to as the best core set format of all time.

My Favourite Classroom Games Continued: Part Five

This entry is part 5 of 5 in the series My favourite teaching games

My long running series on games for the EFL classroom has reached its fifth issue. In each edition I include a mixture of well known classics as well as my own creations.

Ten of my favourite TV and film cover songs

Some of the most iconic music comes from TV and cinema. Often people fall in love with the music just as much as the characters. Here are ten covers of much loved musical pieces from the big and the small screen.

My FPL 18/19 Season Review

With only to weeks to go until the new football season, I decided to look back at my previous fantasy football season and see what lessons I can learn.

How to Fold a traditional Origami Box

The Masu box is an absolute classic origami design because of its simplicity, elegance and usefulness. You can even make a lid for the box.

Modern Horizons Set Review

Modern Horizons’s unique selling point is that for the first time cards are skipping standard and entering Modern directly. This gives design and development immense freedom to push power levels up, reuse old mechanics, revisit old characters and just do wierd things.

How to draw Celtic Knots: Part Two

This entry is part 2 of 3 in the series How to draw Celtic knots

This is the second part of a three part series on drawing Celtic knots. I’ll show you how to draw more intricate and complicated designs.

My Top Ten Things to Do on Iona

I’ve been very lucky to have spent the last three months living and working on Iona. If you love nature, tranquillity, spirituality or beaches this is the place to come.

My Favourite Classroom Games Continued: Part Four

This entry is part 4 of 5 in the series My favourite teaching games

I may have taken a break from teaching, but I still have lots of games and activities to cover in this series. You can find my previous (and future) articles here

Pokémon Haiku: Kanto Edition

The world of pokémon is weird and wonderful place. To celebrate these strange critters I’ve written some haikus for some of the original 151 pokémon. Some focus on the game play of the original games whilst others are based on interesting or creepy nuggets of information in the game’s pokédex. All of them were great fun to write.