By E.H Jones is simply the most amazing true escape story, ever. I have been recommending it to people for fifty years but it has largely been out of print. I have not owned a copy myself for most of that time – the dangers of lending books to ‘friends’! Now once more I can: […]
I helped a chap build one of these ‘perpetual’ pumps years’ ago to pump water from a stream way down in the bush at the bottom of his property to near his house at the top so he could run their vegie garden. At best you get 1/10th of the water (diminishing with head to
These little guys are great. Such a boon for old arthritic fingers and for any other folk who don’t have the super strength or dexterity to operate the taps which water drums normally come with. Usually under $10. Designed and manufactured in Australia! Available BCF (and elsewhere). Standard 3/4″ BSP thread fits hose fittings, etc.
Seriously clever sundial makes Stonehenge look very old hat; I so like that it has no moving or electronic parts yet it displays the time digitally: http://www.gizmag.com/digital-sundial/41099/
Eight days have passed since I observed these in full flower in Melbourne (07/12/2015). Ours were just coming out here on Tuesday 15/12/2015 Agapanthus and Jacaranda. So much of ‘global warming’ is simply the ‘Urban Heat Island’ effect/local variations. I have many times observed that AGW is not present in the satellite records or in
If you need to get your knife open with one hand quickly, this range of knives may be right for you. The smallest (The Chive) weighs only 1.9 ounces (54 grams) , so may even fit with your ultralight hiking kit: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YRZNUioNPC4
Right behind our home there are lots of forestry tracks where we usually go for a walk with the dogs of a late afternoon. This one (No 4 Road) is about 400 metres further up the mountain so it is much cooler on a 30C day like yesterday. Some shady spots we wondered whether we
These people will make a fortune: Play the video, I dare you. It will soon move to clothes I’m sure. I am planning to have my entire skin replaced with E-ink so that I can display all manner of interesting perspectives of myself instantaneously, even in video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O5XhzmjUVnk http://www.shiftwear.com/
You would think this blue tongue lizard would have a red tongue the number of strawberries he has eaten. He is trying to hurriedly make off, but in his haste he has tangled himself temporarily in the netting. He knows the way around it though. I just weeded that bed this morning. There were a
Jurassic Update: The Culprit: Caught in the act! Read More »
Spotted at the National Gallery last week: What a moving painting: August Friedrich Albrecht Schenck: ‘Anguish’. As a ‘sheephusband’ for over thirty years, how many times have I seen this? Sheep have a (measured) IQ of over 60 – more than many folks who are allowed to vote (for the Greens/Labor, I suspect) – and
