As with yesterday I spent quite a bit of time outside today. The days are getting shorter and colder as winter slowly creeps in. Sure, for the most part it’s still sunny most days here in Melbourne, but some of those sunny days are punching out their time clocks as rainy and overcast days punch [...]

Around about ten years or so ago I had the opportunity to make some props for a nation-wide TV commercial for Kraft Macaroni Cheese. A friend of mine, Kate, is a props buyer/organizer for various production companies here in Melbourne and she wanted to know if it was possible to design and make some hella [...]

Ummmm……. Nah, forget it! p.s. Tomorrow I might burn something and take photos of it.

When I first moved in here I inherited a dead person. Well, maybe not a “person” as such. More like one eighth of a person. Of course I didn’t quite realize this at the time. It wasn’t until a few weeks later that I “accidently” found my housemate – and when I did he kinda [...]

For a while now – well, about a month really – I’ve not known “exactly” what a meme was, what it did, how you used it or anything about it actually. Over the past couple of days I’ve found out more about them and I want to categorically say right now PLEASE, NO-ONE EVER SEND [...]

Is it the ultimate fight for your soul? Will it make you a better or worse person for reading their blogs? Will it change the way you view the world? Who the hell cares! Lately I’ve been watching the events and goings-on between two very interesting blogs. I was going to say “bitching” and “infighting” [...]

I’ve just heard something on the local TV news which I thought was quite funny. Apparently the police here in Victoria have spent quite a few of the taxpayers dollars in training seven sniffer dogs to sniff out talcum powder, rather than drugs. It seems that the cocaine “packages” got mixed up with the talcum [...]

What is it with Sea Monkeys? It seems they’re back “in vogue” again when really they were the kinda “rip-off pets from hell” that shoulda stayed in the 60′s and 70′s where they kinda belonged! I mean I remember looking in the comic books where they had advertisements for these things. In the background you’d [...]

I had some inspiration from Christian’s site today. He’d just been to see Star Wars III: The Revenge Of The Sith and he thought it was pretty darn good, so I decided to do the same this morning. I was always going to see the latest Star Wars installment but it was just a question [...]

Some of the things I make – spurred on primarily from doing the book Woodlore – are handplanes and other woodworking tools. I started doing them about 17 years ago when I wanted some small violinmakers planes for making the musical instruments I made. The antique planes cost too much to buy from the collectors [...]