Wet Sand

In 1999 I travelled through Turkey, Syria, Jordan, Israel and Egypt on busses, boats and trains.  In Turkey, the lira was suffering severe ...

Here's another interesting comparison from thetruesize.com  - New Zealand and South Africa at the same scale: South Africa is ove...

As the UK looks to unhitch itself from the European Union, here is an interesting to-scale comparison of the size of NZ versus the UK and I...

Or, more to the point, what's wrong with our relationship with cars? Auckland Transport's Downtown Car Park The message here...

In The Ten Books on Architecture (also know as De architectura ), Vitruvius (1st Century BC) complains about construction cost over-runs: ...

For most of the twentieth century, architectural styles consisted of Modernism and Post Modernism.  Of course there were hangovers and hybri...

The ducks are back, and follow me wherever I go... ...even while hunting for mushrooms (to look at, not to eat - I think most are poiso...

The danger of surfing Trade Me and other auction sites is that you might be temped to buy stuff.  Like this busted up old oak table - $20 - ...

I now have a fancy new semi-rigid cast on my writing hand: In between answering work emails and watching the local wildlife go past......

Adding insult to injury (literally), as I sat bandaged up on the sofa recovering from surgery, the cat got a fright from an imaginary threat...