Thursday, July 23, 2009
Thursday, July 2, 2009
Friday, June 19, 2009
Friday, May 29, 2009
Playing Games
A friend tried to teach me how to play backgammon last weekend on a board brought back from Iran which was inlaid with tiny pieces of, e.g., camel bone. Stunning. I now have backgammon board lust in a major way and keep googling 'mother-of-pearl'...
Wednesday, May 20, 2009
Adelaide @ Etsy
Another 'Had to Have', from Adelaidean Humdinger Designs' etsy shop. 'Miss Vegemite Pussycat', ACEO (copyright the artist).
Saturday, May 9, 2009
Wednesday, April 15, 2009
Had to have it
'The Cat and the Canaries' from Matou en Peluche's etsy shop. The artwork remains copyright © 2008 the artist (S. Battersby).
Friday, April 3, 2009
Carved in stone
Detail from a stele in the Kerameikos in Athens. The inscription reads (as far as I can make out) 'Protarchos Protomachou Salaminios) and underneath are two of these flower/rosette things.
Friday, March 27, 2009
Reading
Isn't this a great cover? Sue Shephard, Pickled, Potted & Canned: the story of food preserving (2000, various reprints; ISBN 0-7472-6207-1).
Saturday, March 14, 2009
Exploding Rats
The Australian War Memorial currently has an exhibition on animals in war ('A is for Animals') and the latest issue of their magazine Wartime features the 'exploding rat' developed by the Special Operations Executive. There's an 'interactive' display at the UK National Archives site (source of the above image). On the Australian War Memorial site one can also read about the Dickin Medal ("the animals' VC").
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