Measure twice. Cut once.   There seems to be so many opportunities to mess up a perfectly good piece of timber even before a walking-DIY-disaster like me tries to …

Another kind of sugar When I was seven years old growing up in rural New Zealand my mum flew to Brisbane to help my uncle Jeff, whose Gold Coast nursery …

An upcoming field trip Kids come to Ceres and learn how to see webs of life in a bucket of water they pull from the old dam or in the handfuls of …

What took us so long? Early this morning I was over in the park walking Jessie, our kelpie.  The remnants of a kid’s party lay scattered on the ground around …

Alex Podolinsky – Pattern and Flow   Growing up in 1930’s Germany Alex Podolinsky had a dream about a place with a giant yellow sun. Later as a refugee escaping World War II Alex Podolinsky …

  Mal and Ben good wood men   The big cold front rolled in this afternoon. The Bureau says the temperature has dropped from 18C to 12C though they reckon …