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  • A room of one’s own

    A room of one’s own

    I’ve been absent from this blogging malarkey for a while and I’m very sorry. To say it’s been busy here at stitch towers is a massive understatement…where to start… Both boys had their birthdays in the last fortnight…superheroes and laser tag parties ensued. The former a proper, old fashioned, parlour games type of affair. The…

  • Oh what tangled webs we weave…

    A vacuum is filled when new air rushes in The old air pumped out under pressure. Light is snuffed out as it fights for a breath Until oxygen finds a new fissure. So where is my air? What replaces the old – The old me The one who flew high? A new gas diffuses, Drifts…

  • Gadget birthday

    Gadget birthday

    I remember when birthday cakes were teddy bears and pandas. Now it’s electronics and computers. Here is Elder’s eighth birthday cake – an homage to the gadget show. Oh, the humanity.

  • Brownian motion

    Brownian motion or pedesis (from Greek: πήδησις /pɛɖeːsɪs/ “leaping”) is the random motion of particles suspended in a fluid (a liquid or a gas) resulting from their collision with the quick atoms or molecules in the gas or liquid. The term “Brownian motion” can also refer to the mathematical model used to describe such random…

  • Give way

    Give way

    When you give way do you give up? Is this journey always to be pitched At an angle so steep That my blood hammers hard And I drop and I swoop Ever down There are lights on the way Chinks of bright Glowing white But they fade as you try to hold on They are…