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              Managing expectations
            
          
          
            
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I look around the blog and I see cobwebs traversing the weeds. Though it doesn't feel like it, things have been progressing. Tuning yourself in to...
              
            
            
              
            
            
           
         
      
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              Indecision
            
          
          
            
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                I like those spots you turn up so where you can't see the breaking wave from where you kill the engine. Park up on the cliff, at the end of the lan...
              
            
            
              
            
            
           
         
      
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              The trifles of productivity
            
          
          
            
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                We're knee-deep in it now. The short days, grey skies and horizontal sleet out here. So soon are folks forgetting how great the weather has been th...
              
            
            
              
            
            
           
         
      
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              Bottle jack press
            
          
          
            
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                The last few weeks I'd been looking for resources to build my own printing press.
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              Crystals in the Krypt?
            
          
          
            
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                There was something rattling around inside my Krypt surfmat. I could feel something gritty in there. I thought it might have been bits of sand, per...
              
            
            
              
            
            
           
         
      
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              Inflatable t-shirts
            
          
          
            
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                Blue skies and sunshine and the pressure to get something done before heading out west again for the weekend - deadlines make things happen. Uneart...
              
            
            
              
            
            
           
         
      
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              On leave
            
          
          
            
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                As we work our way into Spring here in the north, friends further south are walking their way into Autumn. My mind drifts to images of shuffling th...
              
            
            
              
            
            
           
         
      
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              Shape thower
            
          
          
            
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                I spent my formative years as a grommet cutting my teeth (sometimes literally) on the beachies and points of the Sunshine Coast in Queensland. An i...
              
            
            
              
            
            
           
         
      
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              Cultural liaison
            
          
          
            
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                Ahh, paid employment. It seems such a quaint thing of days gone by.
Part of my last job was culturing algae (specifically the marine diatom,...
              
            
            
              
            
            
           
         
      
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              Introspective cormorants
            
          
          
            
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                Winter promenading. Such a joy is this leg-stretching meandering along the briny fringes of city and sea. Here one's nostrils are assailed with the...
              
            
            
              
            
            
           
         
      
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              Bear and whale
            
          
          
            
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                This piece was commissioned late last year. The brief was... well, brief - two animals, a polar bear and a whale; call me when it's done. Initial t...
              
            
            
              
            
            
           
         
      
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              Prone to transition
            
          
          
            
              by Ian Jermyn
            
            
            
              
                How should I start a post after a hiatus of several months? Just like this I guess...
 Was he pushed or did he jump? September marked a ...
              
            
            
              
            
            
           
         
      
    
   
 
    
    
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