DavidIlsley.com

This page is a portal to David Ilsley's stuff. There are a number of sections.

Scroll down or use the menu button below to jump to a section. Then click the pictures or buttons.

Videos

The links below are to four videos that I've put onto YouTube. They're not at all professional or informative, but they do seem to get a few views, mostly, I think, by people who know me, and people who are interested in stroking boobies.

Dancing with the Stars

Dancing with the Stars

Stroking a Booby

Stroking a Booby

Hail

Hail Storm

YouTube Channel - David Ilsley

Garden

Garden Tour

YouTube Channel - M1Maths

Maths and Astronomy Websites

The pictures below are links to my maths website that offers materials for learning and teaching secondary maths, and my astronomy site which could be useful in learning an teaching astronomy or running an astronomy club.

M1Maths Screenshot

M1Maths Facebook Group

M1Astronomy Screenshot

M1Astronomy Facebook Group

The following pictures are links to two of the slideshows from the astronomy site.

Being PowerPoints, the files will have to be saved and opened from where you save them.

Slideshow link     Slideshow link

Philosophy

The buttons and pictures below are links to some of my philosophical musings.

Existence       Consciousness      Free Will      Identity

The Paranormal      The Purpose of Life

A Fairer World

Girl and Vulture

Novel

Empyrean novel cover

Simplified English

Simplified English

The majority of humans believe that most of existence occurs after death and that the life after death can be very pleasant or extremely awful depending on what we believe and what we do in this life. If this is true, then living this life the right way is of supreme importance.

With a rationale along the lines of Pascal's Wager, I committed to being a Christian and spent many years learning the ins and outs of the religion and doing things that might help me develop the required faith. However, that faith eluded me, maybe because the bible says that faith is a gift from God, not something we can conjure up ourselves.

Some thoughts on faith can be found at M1Free.com.

My Story

This is a sort of brief autobiography. It contains first names and pictures (taken when I knew them) of people who have been important to me in the past. If you find your name or picture here and would prefer it wasn't, please let me know via the Contact button below and I will remove it. It would actually be great to hear from you.

My Life       Travels       East Africa       West Africa       Teaching

Winter       Twenty       PhD

Travel Photos

Travel Pictures Screenshot

Beauty

Beauty

Home

The picture below is a link to a page about our home. The page is password-protected. The user name is 'me'; the password is my mother's middle name followed by 'bulldog' - all lower case, no spaces or punctuation. If you know her middle name, feel free to go ahead; if you don't, but you know me and are interested, you can contact me via the Contact button at the bottom of this page and I can tell you.

House

Miscellaneous Rantings

The buttons below link to random things that I have written.
They are of dubious quality and minimal interest.

Hairy Dogs       Psychological Disorders       Traffic Lights

Collective Nouns for Teachers       School Behaviour Management

Black Lives Matter       Unexpected Exam      Money supply

Sweat Shops       Vitamin D and Covid       Sun Protection

Crystals       Dates       Eye Border       Laughter

Contact, Copyright and Acknowledgments

Contact      Copyright

Image Acknowledgments

Background image: https://pixabay.com/illustrations/beach-background-sea-ocean-3892386/ (cropped) (Creative Commons licence)
Student image: https://www.flickr.com/photos/83633410@N07/7658219802 (cropped) (Creative Commons licence)
Telescopes: rawpixel.com (cropped)           Kids on phone: Max Fischer on Pexels (cropped)
Horsehead Nebula:wallpaperuse.com (cropped)           Girl and vulture: David Erickson, flickr.com

The links below will be of no interest, except maybe to people in the QAMT or Probus.

QAMT       Probus