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Wine bottle glasses.

Here’s a first attempt at cutting wine bottles to make drinking glasses. These were done by hand so the scribe was not straight enough. A jig will have to be made!

Watching my bench.

My watchmaker’s bench is getting ever closer to completion.

Cooping the chickens

Chickens arrive tomorrow so Nathan and I have been cooping like mad to get things ready. The coop is made of 90% on hand materials. The only new parts are some of the door frame components.

A bread making lesson.

Perhaps doubling the recipe wasn’t a great idea.

A letter to the Minister for Housing

The following is a letter I sent to the Minister for Housing. I also sent slightly modified versions to my local member and to the Prime Minister. The Hon. Tanya Plibersek MP Minister for Housing Minister for the Status of Women 111-117 Devonshire Street Surry Hills, N.S.W., 2010 Dear Minister, I have read with interest [...]

A letter to the Minister for Broadband, Communications and the Digital Economy

The following is a letter I wrote to the Minister for Broadband, Communications and the Digital Economy which I penned in response to the Australian Government’s unworkable internet filtering scheme. Senator the Hon. Stephen Conroy Minister for Broadband, Communications and the Digital Economy Level 4, 4 Treasury Place Melbourne Victoria, 3002 Dear Minister, As an [...]