This weekend in Canberra we had the annual Lego Brick Expo at the Hellenic Club in Woden. Last years’ expo was marred by a ticketing meltdown, however this year order has been restored to the proceedings. Unlike last years’ calamitous overpopulation of sessions, this year the numbers were far more respectable. Although there seemed to […]
Continue ReadingExcursion: Honeysuckle Creek
This morning Damian and I took a little science excursion and visited the former site of the Honeysuckle Creek tracking station, south of Canberra. It’s only about a 40 minute drive from the heart of the Nation’s capital, and this unassuming location played a huge role in the Apollo program of the 1960s and 1970s: […]
Continue Reading2015 Enlighten Festival
This week is the middle of the annual Canberra Festival, and one of the highlights (pun unintended) is the annual Enlighten festival, where public buildings in the Parliamentary triangle are lit up with transitions of various colours, themes and – in some cases – multimedia. The heart of the festival must be Old Parliament House, […]
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