DeeKnow’s Grotto

I went out on a brief afternoon excursion yesterday with mobile phone in hand and captured some video which I’ve stitched together following. Its a bit shakey, phone video is never gonna be that stable, but the results are ok considering:

This morning I was getting ready to leave for work, pulling my jacket on, looked out the window to the back lawn and noticed the bloody frost on the grass. I peered around the lawn a little to see how thick it was and see a little sunny spot over by the passionfruit vine. Then [...]

We have a toilet down the corridor from us that happens to be the closest and most convenient location for daily ablutionary activity. It also happens to possess a number of classic toilet usability disaster features which I detail following for your edutainment. Really makes me wonder how much thought people put into toilet design, [...]

I’ve put up with a few cold places and situations in my time. When I was at primary school we had to play rugby in bare feet in the hard frosts of winter. I’ve slept on the snow near the ridge-line of the Southern Alps. I’ve camped overnight on top of a cold and windy [...]

Just now I was wandering back across campus to my office after another thrilling meeting and had one of those flashback moments. It’s a beautiful clear blue winters day in Hamilton today. It wasn’t quite a frost early on but its cold and still even now at midday. The suns shining and warming just enough [...]