Auction Assistance
There’s a property auction going on down the street. I didn’t think I’d be taken in by it, but I have to admit, it’s kind of exciting. I suppose it’s because this crowd of people standing all over the footpath…
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Frosted Glass: A Fascinating History
Mankind has been fascinated by glass for years, in the same way we appreciate it keeping the cold out of our homes and..being transparent. Transparent things can be looked through, you see. Everything is getting its own personal book, or…
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It’s All About the Aluminium
With that ladder museum seemingly taking off to the sky and beyond, I’m starting to think about opportunities for other such ventures. People seem to love ladders in a way that no one could ever have predicted. Then we put…
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Pest Inspections, Through the Decades
I know a lot of people probably wouldn’t want a book on their coffee table about bugs, but hear me out. It would be a book about bugs…but tasteful. Okay, maybe we can make it about pest control or something….
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Beauty, Through the Ages
People through the ages have done all kinds of strange things to themselves to achieve true beauty. It’s only recently that we’ve managed to do it without causing some sort of long-term damage. It’s true; today’s beauty treatments are some…
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Scaffolding, a Fascinating History
So…this isn’t how I thought I’d be using my degree in history. Still, I don’t exactly hate the situation either. I’m one of exactly two people working at the ladder museum, and I’m at least learning some stuff about Australia’s…
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Children, Play and the Future
Children…they are the future. Literally. Whether you like it or not. As in, if all the kids suddenly vanished and nobody had any more, there would be no future, so that’s just life. That was a bit dark, but what…
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The three runaways
They were just three kids. 18, 20 and 21. They had barely experienced life but they craved it so much. They wanted twists and turns and curve-balls. Jennifer, Felix and Oz moved into the city to find something they had…
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Arboriculture, a fascinating topic
There should be more books about arboriculture. There simply aren’t enough. People know the terms ‘tree lopping’ and ‘tree surgery’, but they don’t realise there’s a whole science and art behind arboriculture. I got the idea while my neighbour was…
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Plate Alloy, The Big Thing
Plate alloy is, in my opinion, where it’s at. I’ve been closely following the trends of fishing throughout the last thirty years so I can keep up with what’s hip and relevant, so I know full-well what all the young…
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