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Confession: I’m addicted to sniffing this glue…
December 01, 2014
This year I have been quietly searching for perfect objects. The perfect notebook, the perfect pen to draw with, the perfect glue. My quest for the glue is over. I found Coccoina. As Italian schoolchildren have known for years, Coccoina is a simple white paste, it is made from potato
My type of tree…
November 21, 2014
I was asked to decorate a Christmas Tree to donate to a local event, The Festival of Trees. The trees are then auctioned off and the money raised go to support Hearts of Hope, a non-profit that helps those affected by sexual violence. My tree was very simple (of course)
Why it’s important to get good coffee in space – ISSpresso
June 18, 2014
When one of the Italian astronauts at the International Space Station (ISS) declared that he missed a good espresso, Lavazza and Argotec, in collaboration with the Italian Space Agency, were already working in the problem. Yes, this is very clever – making good coffee in zero gravity apparently is pretty tough
This post is some breathing space..
June 05, 2014
Take the time you would have spent reading the rest of this post, or watching a video and daydream a little, plan an adventure – in your head, in your house, or in reality.
BE YOU (a side project I write)
May 27, 2014
As many of you know I write a column for the local paper every week, called BE YOU. It’s a series of questions (based on the Proust questionnaire) that are asked to a different person each week together with a photograph of them holding a BE YOU (you are amazing)