1. A squirrel appears on the fence just a foot away from Boron. He stares at it without moving and it stares back for a moment before escaping into the tree. Boron turns around to look at me – his eyes are shining with excitement and we share a blink.
2. I hear music and John’s laughter from the other room. He’s discovered these marvellous things: http://www.instructables.com/id/The-Most-Useless-Machine/.
3. Our neighbour, fresh back from Banff, Canada, tells us about what it was like to breath ice crystals.
10/1/2010 at 11:06 am
Ha! It’s like something out of Wallace and Grommit. It also reminds me of the strange contraptions my father used to make from Technic Lego — all whirring cogs and thrusting pistons that did… nothing. We called them Billy Bean machines.