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Polymer clay figurine making is a small big pleasure
Tell us about the last thing you got excited about. As a long-time fan of the UK TV show, The Great Pottery Throwdown I have developed a fascination for hand-building and handcrafting things using clay. Some amazing person uploaded the whole 7th season here, so get in there before it’s taken down! So I tentativelyContinue reading “Polymer clay figurine making is a small big pleasure”
Book Review: The Story of a Shipwrecked Sailor by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Garcia wrote this essay in a series of newspaper articles in Bogota over 30 years ago. He tells the dramatised story of a sailor Luis Alejandro Velasco who sailed on a ship laden with contraband goods from Alabama in the US bound for Columbia. The ship encountered a turmultuous storm which threw all aboard into the sea with devastating consequences.
Beach walking and native birds
What do you love about where you live? I love living right next to the beach and being able to walk there each day. There are egrets, rosellas, cocakatoos, gallahs, Australian crows, rainbow lorikeets, tawny frogmouths, dusky moorhens, superb fairy wrens. All flitter and flirt through the brush and low lying bushes near the beach withContinue reading “Beach walking and native birds”
Phantasmagorical Paper Recipes to Fuel your Belly and Brain
As you probably have realised from previous posts about the automated paper town called Paperholme, I’m obsessed with paper art. And here is yet another fragile and whimsical creation that I’ve fallen in love with. Paper is a medium that can trump rocks but not scissors, and in these stop motion animations you will discoverContinue reading “Phantasmagorical Paper Recipes to Fuel your Belly and Brain”
Things To Bring Peace
What brings you peace? The peace that comes after a swim in a lake, river or the ocean, when allowing your body dry naturally in the hot sun. The peace of an animal friend placing their paw or head on your lap, in a quiet moment together. The peace of knowing that you did yourContinue reading “Things To Bring Peace”
10 Interesting Things I Found on the Internet #132
This week see sleeping anime #cats in rice paddies, a mystical and nice quote from #YokoOno, the difference between a living and dead #idea, how snails hitchhiked from a Pacific Islands to the Americas and more, it’s edition 132 of interesting things by #ContentCatnip
A really questionable culinary decision
What’s the most money you’ve ever spent on a meal? Was it worth it? Yet another thing that nobody ought give a crap about. This is more a reminder to myself. A good few years back…you know that time….the golden era and halcyon days when there was no world war, before Trump, before covid, beforeContinue reading “A really questionable culinary decision”
Here are some simple joys that make me happy
List 30 things that make you happy. These are no doubt completely dull and boring to others. However, they serve as a potent reminder to myself all of the various humble pleasures of a simple and joyful life. For the dark times when I can’t see a positive world or can’t see a way throughContinue reading “Here are some simple joys that make me happy”
How I would describe myself to someone who can’t see me
How would you describe yourself to someone who can’t see you? This is difficult task to describe myself without talking about how I look but I’ll try. Can you describe yourself without referring to appearance? Let me know below in the comments how you would do this. Here’s mine: Quick moving and dynamic especially whenContinue reading “How I would describe myself to someone who can’t see me”
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