Wet Sand

Bhutan is a small kingdom at the eastern end of the Himalayas between India and Tibet (China).  We recently spent a week there visiting for...

The view from our bedroom this morning.

On display in Wellington at the moment (and along with the MONIAC also exhibits from New Zealand's entries in the Venice Biennale) are ...

I have been wanting to see this machine at the Reserve Bank Museum for several years, since reading about the New Zealand economist and inv...

A 40-year-old bus timetable discovered in our old shed.  Five buses a day serving Orewa, Silverdale, Dairy Flat, Waitoki, Kaukapakapa, Hele...

Conventional paid work has unfortunately been interfering with my woodworking as of late, but I have been able to make a few things: ...

I was born during the Apollo lunar missions and grew up devouring science fiction from authors like Arthur C Clarke, Robert Heinlein, Larry...

With the completion of the dining table restoration, covered here  previously, our original dining table has been moved outside to the vera...

Great Barrier Reef in Australia is a 2300km long coral reef, mostly underwater.  Great Barrier Island is a mountainous 43km long island, a ...

As blogged about previously, I bought an oak extending dining table online last year for $20.  It had suffered a catastrophic brea...