(From the unpublished recollections – ‘K444 – Growing Up In The Shadow of A Rusty Boat’) When you grow up so close to the sea that high tide in a storm means logs on the front lawn, beachcombing becomes a way of life long before the first bell rings for
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Thoughts from what I have seen on this road I walk.
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April 2026 in Carlington
If you live in this area you probably don’t need the stats to tell you April was a bit of a roller coaster month. One day the temperature was above 25C and the next morning -2C. One day sunny, the next snowy. Here is the data visualized from my backyard
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Trombones and Stinky Socks
Once a window widesheers fluttered in the breezelilted in flight by percussive lightnessflowing streamlike cross hardwood floorslike the footsteps of a wood nymph stealing awayawed by the majesty of Winstonplaying sunlit strings, deep tones rumbling pleasureat the crystal peals of Pachelbel. ml’01 (From the unpublished collection of short stories ‘K444-Growing
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Patch, Pitch or Paint?
A couple years back, at Xmas, my wife gifted me a VERY large set of coloured pencils – like 120 pencils! The pencils are lovely, smooth, no bits on the paper etc., the kind of thing you expect in expensive pencils. The only issue is what happens when I want
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BIC Ideas From Little Things
In my work I go through a pile of pens, constantly writing notes and filling coil books. Call me old school but I live by the maxim ‘Write it down and remember it 3 times as long!”. It doesn’t help being left handed! As odd as it seems pushing a
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Deosil Goes 3Deosil
Well we have been talking about this for awhile, seeing all the cool models online, and sort of hankering to give 3D printing a try. Of course Mrs. Bear did all the legwork, looking up best performance to price, types of filament to get, talking to friends already 3D printing.