…and a tortoise
As promised, a few photos from yesterday:
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I spent a lovely day today with Pieta at a Christmas craft workshop run by Rekindle. Rekindle were set up after the earthquakes to try and make use of some of the huge amount of waste from demolished buildings. They’ve expanded now to find ways of making use of all sorts of what they call…
A couple of delayed entries
DD has been down again, or at least, the ability for some of us to log in properly has been, so these two entries are ones I wrote over the last couple of days but haven’t been able to post until now (so the “yesterday”s are several days ago now – I’ve added in the…
DD weirdness
I just noticed something very strange. My last week’s worth of posts only show up when I’m logged in. If I’m not logged in, I can only see posts up until 6 February, even though all of my posts are public. Logged in view of my homepage: Same page, but not logged in: A completely…
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Christchurch people (and anyone else who just likes to help preserve cool historic things): If any of you have fond memories of visiting the telescope in the Arts Centre Observatory on a Friday night, you might want to contribute to this fundraiser to help restore the telescope. It was badly damaged when the building collapsed…
The Littlest Cucumbers
Some may have doubted my ability to grow cucumbers in a small pot, but I have proof it is possible. Granted, they are very small cucumbers, and they show no sign of increasing in size, but they are definitely cucumbers: Yeah, I’ll never be a gardener, will I?
The Good and the Bad
ometimes working at the university has its definite perks. Like today when I got to go to a fascinating lecture being given by Alison Griffith of the Classics department on the history of writing, illustrated with objects from the Logie Collection, like Sumerian cuneiform tablets, Egyptian mummy wrappings, and Roman memorial stones. Really interesting stuff,…