What did your kids do for the Easter Holiday? Hunt for Easter eggs in the garden? Watch TV and play with Legos? Stay up later than usual and spend the mornings bumming around in their pyjamas? I can promise you that the children of the […]
Month: March 2018
A moment of pure happiness: Solomon Island swimming goggles
After last week’s somewhat depressing post, I promised to find a more cheerful subject for this week. I have mined my memories for the most pure moments of happiness that I can recall, and one of them prompted me to select these swimming goggles for […]
A Brass Box, or How I Lost Faith in Humanity
Let’s play a guessing game. What purpose do you think this artefact has? Is it an antique business card holder for the stylish gentleman (or -woman) of business? Is it a snuff container that fits perfectly into a jacket pocket? Has is, perhaps, contained bobby […]
Spring has arrived! Wait, what…? Siberian snowshoes
When my co-corker called me this morning to tell me that she was in a bus sliding backwards down a hill due to heavy snow and a very icy road, I felt compelled to continue the Siberian theme of last week’s blog post. As I […]
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