• Alive and Kicking

    Today marks the conclusion of the annual solar power highway to the danger zone. For three weeks on either side of the winter solstice, the sun is so darned low in the sky, that it can be a challenge to capture enough electricity to fully charge the house batteries. It’s a tough time of year…

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    Alive and Kicking

  • Zen and the art of Potholes

    Between 1942 to 1943, there were about 100 air raids by the Japanese on Australia . One of the biggest, was on the 19 February 1942 with the bombing of the far northern city of Darwin. 188 planes smashed the daylights out of the remote city and got away largely unscathed, such were the light…

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    Zen and the art of Potholes
  • Gone Away

    The act of studying has never felt natural to me. A person spends hours of their life absorbing spoken, visual and/or written material, for a brief time at least. In my case, some of it may have stuck, maybe. Other chunks fell through the gaps and other orifices. At University my goal was to pass…

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    Gone Away

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