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  • #MicroFiction, June 2021

    I’ve started writing microfiction, a self-contained story that fits in a single Mastodon post. Here are the stories I’ve written up to 30 June 2021.

  • Peer Gynt quilt, Part 2

    Hot on the heels of my quilted interpretation of Edvard Grieg’s classical composition Anitra’s Dance from the Peer Gynt suite, chronicled in Part 1, I wanted to get stuck into the next quilt in the series. My next quilt would be the first movement, Morning Mood, a piece of music known even to people with…

  • Peer Gynt quilt, Part 1

    There we were: me, my partner, and my mother, having breakfast in the Savoy Hotel in London before our river cruise, and the conversation drifted to Maurice Ravel‘s Boléro, as it so often does. I recalled a painting by Canadian artist Anne Adams, Unraveling Boléro, inspired by this evocative orchestral piece. This painting represents the…

  • The Great Australian Skyr-off

    Here at Ice Moon Prison, we have a habit of becoming fond of foods available only in other parts of the world.  When we visited eastern Canada, for instance, we were introduced to poutine and Montréal smoked meat.  When we visited Iceland, we were introduced to skyr.  Skyr, a kind of thick yoghurt, proved impossible…

  • Three-bin compost system

    Here at Ice Moon Prison, everyone deserves a second chance.  This applies equally to our vegetable scraps and grass clippings, so we have commissioned the bespoke official Ice Moon Prison Three-bin Compost System.

  • Recipe: Lebkuchen

    Here at Ice Moon Prison, we celebrate the winter festival of Christmas with traditional wintery foods. A few years ago we did a cooking course at Gewürzhaus in Toorak, and learned how to make Lebkuchen, a German spiced gingerbread.

  • Rough Science: LIFE at the Melbourne Fringe Festival

    Here at Ice Moon Prison, we like a good laugh. So we ventured out last night, using the tiny-but-cute Flagstaff Railway Station to see Sean M. Elliott‘s one-hour stand-up routine Rough Science: LIFE.

  • Limitless LED teardown

    Here at Ice Moon Prison we are conscious of how much energy our facility uses, hence we are early adopters when it comes to LED technology.  Sometimes too early.  A couple of years ago Limitless LED released these inexpensive warm/cool white bulbs in the familiar B22 form factor.  They ended up being relegated to the…

  • Speak the weather

    Here at Ice Moon Prison, going outside with insufficient clothing can be fatal. Hence we find ourselves checking the Bureau of Meteorology’s forecast often, even before we get up in the morning. Fumbling for a smartphone while still in bed is out of the question—LCD screens are off-limits in sleeping quarters—so we are experimenting with…

  • Let it Snow Globe

    “Let it Snow Globe” Designed by Cherie Marie Leck, 2001 40-count silk gauze; Kreinik Silk Mori; Kreinik Blending Filament. Stitched by Tina Canton