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Well, it wasn’t all lying around by the infinity pool while we were away in Vanuatu – although I must say, doing that was very pleasant… (& contrary to appearances, we had very little rain.) But one of the attractions of going somewhere different is that there is so much new stuff to see and do. […]

Completely off-topic but I had to share this one 🙂 It’s another bread recipe – I had a day’s leave before we left on this trip (I might share some photos if I can work them into a story somehow) & spent part of the morning trying out that bread book again (Ingram & Shapter, […]

Just letting you know that I won’t be monitoring the blog for the next few days – my Significant Other & I will be spending 4 days on a desert island. Well, an island. A tropical island. Where there may not be net access & even if there is, using it could prove to be […]

For those interested in physics, my friend Marcus Wilson has recently started a blog on the subject: Physics Stop. Luging, the Large Hadron Collider, Star Trek transporter beams – all this & more. And his door’s always open to visitors 🙂

A while back Ken gave a link to wordle, a rather neat site where you can build a word image for a piece of text or the content of a web page. I’ve just revisited and got a wordle for the last few posts here:   I like wordle 🙂

I know that if you’ve finished, or have almost finished, your NCEA exams, probably the last thing you are thinking about is university study! More likely, a relaxing break is foremost in your mind 🙂 (Mine too, actually…) But I was talking this morning with colleagues about how different university is from school for many […]