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Drew and Mithi asked for home-made stuff as wedding presents. Nic wanted to make bath cubes for them, with dried lavender and petals. But the lavender and petals on our window sill weren’t drying fast enough and their wedding day was approaching.
“I know how to make a solar dryer”, I said. For I did. Back in Kenya, I drew up this diagram for my friend Megan:
Having just spent a wonderful weekend dancing at the London Lindy Exchange, today I’m taking a moment to mourn the death of Frankie Manning, the international ambassador of Swing Dance.
The name of this site is a kind of spoonerism of Jitterbug: another name for Lindy Hop, the original Swing Dance.
Below is a video, by Jules Kerssemakers, that I have been toying with the idea of posting here for a while, of myself and Sam Flint mucking about at The Speakeasy in Cambridge a couple of weeks ago.
Thank you Frankie, you will be much missed
Hakuna Stima was a common situation for me when I lived in Kenya, it means the electricity is off. It used to happen about once per week as a scheduled event lasting about a day and, intermittently, the rest of the time giving our UPSs a hard time in the computer lab.
The night before last, it happened here in Cambridge. Read the rest of this entry »
So much of the climate-change and peak oil rhetoric is frightening and layden with difficult messages. This short movie gives a positive view of taking action. Such a relief!
It’s also beautifully and simply animated.
Dawn sent me a lovely Monday night Haiku, I am putting it here on the fridge door to be reminded of it.
swing funky man code
you and kenyans network earth
look up full moon glows
