Category Archives: Hobbies

Edgy: The Railway Cabaret

On Saturday myself and Brox performed with the rest of the Sound Tracks group in Edgy: The Railway Cabaret. Part of the Working Class Life and Music Festival. Our show “Sound Bites” was inspired by the Oral History stored in more »

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Them pidgins are up to summat!

Them pidgins are up to summat… They’re organised… I know it… That blue one… I reckon he’s their leader… (Misquoted from Chicken Run) I have made eight polyfoam pigeons for a performance Brox and I are part of next Saturday more »

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More Quackers

Another successful day volunteering in the museum today. My main activity today was making Rocking Ducks out of paper plates, however I also made some cartoon duck cutouts, duck masks and DNA. There were some children there too… they kept more »

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Radio Arduino

  I have just completed my first Arduino Project. It’s pretending to be an Oscar Belle Two Band Transistor Radio (Made in Hong Kong in the early 1960s). What it is really doing is playing 24 music tracks that I more »

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Duck Tails

Today I did my first day volunteering at the Liverpool World Museum. “Go Quackers” currently has 40,000 rubber ducks and are promoting Claire House’s Duck Race in July. Today’s project was get children involved in drawing ducks and “Identity hands” more »

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Visible Mending

  People have been admiring the newly appeared patches on my favourite corduroy trousers. Some have asked if it is a fashion statement. I have denied this. However the statement “I repair my clothes” is coming through loud and clear. more »

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