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nobody expects the spanish inquisition!

Back in January I got hold of a cheap second-hand kayak, from a guy who made his own. He liked to experiment and then move on to bigger and better things.

It wasn’t particularly neatly made. And the paint job was pretty … interesting. It looked like it had been painted with the same paint that is used for metal-working machinery – that dimpled metallic stuff. And it had been slapped on thick, with nice dribbles all over the place.

A quality paint job. I’d decided a while ago to strip it back and re-finish it, and finally got around to starting sanding today.

But lo and behold, what’s this that I see? I was expecting some average looking ugly plywood underneath. But no. My plywood was leopard-patterned.

So, a lot more sanding to go. But my kayak is going to be a leopard.

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quite

Well, I just watched Lilja 4-Ever… and rather than talk about human trafficking, I will mention that I have a hole in my jeans now, bringing closer the inevitable day when I will have to buy a new pair of pants. Damnation.

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down with this sort of thing

Well chaps, the plan for the ascent of the mighty Mount Bogong this weekend has been scuppered. So no Bogong moths or vicious snow drop bears for me. Instead perhaps a jaunt through the mud on my mountain bike, and a day trip to the snow, should it happen to fall. I’ll leave you with the picture of a pretty graph I made at work.

(I made it smaller than usual out of consideration to readers who might be scared by physicsy things, and numbers in general, if you really want to see what it looks like, feel free to click on it, although you’ll find it’s not very exciting, even if it does involve several different colours)

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pie!

And then there was pie. Vegetable pie with pastry animals on top (the stegasaurus was my favourite).

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the scarf…

Knitting is in process (although it’s inside out here, you get the general idea)