We have now been in our ‘new’ house for four months. This one still does feel a little ‘new’, being only 5 years old. It even incorporates some radical features (for New Zealand): proper insulation, double glazing (though I note that the frames are still aluminium) and well engineered drainage from what otherwise would be […]
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Jigsaw puzzles
Last night I completed a project that’s been going for the last three months – a 1000 piece jigsaw. This one was pretty but particularly fiendish – being a street map of Paris. There’s not a lot of variation from piece to piece – green background with white streets, with limited clues. There are river […]
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Having had a rather extended half-time break from blogging I have some time to get it kicked-off again. And what better topic that the Football World Cup. (Or, as it’s referred to everywhere except New Zealand, the World Cup.) There are some great examples and analogies of physics that we can pull from this, but […]
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