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I, Robot or, “Danger, Will Robinson! (“Exterminate! EXTERMINATE!)
The Space Robo, made in Japan by Tomy, 1969, and bought for my brother. When I was a kid, robots were all the rage. Before the digital age, before the time of personal computers, they had a kind of...
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Sideshow alley and the silver dollar
At the Royal Melbourne Show, 2013. These days, it’s $5 a game (five balls). There aren’t many prizes there worth more than that… Picture by Caron Eastgate Dann, 2013 When I was a girl living in...
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Odd Things I Own #1
My home is a sanctuary: when I close the door, I’m in my own private and safe world, shared with my husband and cat. I have all my books around me, plus a lot of quirky mementos, souvenirs and...
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The toy I always wanted…but was afraid to ask for
When I was a child, there was one toy I always wanted but never received. I would visit toy stores and go straight to the aisle where they sold…the Barbie dolls. Me as a New Zealand school girl in my...
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Boys’ toys, girls’ toys: really?
Boys, you are astronauts, pilots, detectives, scientists; girls, you are mothers and baby minders, and you like pretty things for your hair. Boys, you will build things, go places, blow things up,...
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Look what I made! Look what I made!
I’ve been flat-out busy this year with work, and in the last few months, I haven’t even been able to write any blog posts. Things are much easier now though, so I hope to write plenty of posts over the...
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And so ends another puzzling day…
This is so cute, I had to post it. For those who don’t know, this is a classic Melbourne tram. Well, it’s a miniature model I made today with the Japanese micro block brand Nano Block. These W-class...
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This is a bit more fun than writing lectures!
I haven’t been posting much lately—that’s because I’ve been so flat out with work that I’ve hardly had time to do anything else. But I have a couple of weeks now with just a few hours a day of office...
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