This is an attempt to outline how I have managed to get quandong seeds to germinate, based on a lot of trial and error. I’ll attempt to describe loosely what we’re aiming to do and then explain step by step what I do, so you can adapt the process to suit your needs. What are […]
Quandong Success
Got it to work! the above quandong was germinated in a 1 pint mason jar that had been sterilised in the microwave (1 minute on high) in a bed of vermiculite that had been rehydrated with boiled water from the kettle and allowed to cool (20g of vermiculite + 80g of boiled water). The quandong […]
Quandong Quest 2: Getting past the mould
Evening of Tuesday, October 5:
Curiosity often gets the better of me, and I’m a little impatient when it comes to playing with seeds. On the evening of October 5 I peeked […]
Preserving, Pudding and the #28 Fowlers Jar
I like making preserves because I like cooking and I like science. It also satisfies that weird self-sufficiency kick that comes from being raised by hippy parents, and preserving using Fowlers jars also means I get to keep an eye out for interesting jars when we’re in junk shops. It’s all my hobbies in one […]
Excellent Object: Old Wire Strainers
One of my first jobs was working in vineyards. The vines grow along wires, and so you wind up interacting with wire a fair bit. This experience became useful later in life when it came time to put up the fence at Mount Mary – but it also gave me some pretty strong opinions about wire strainers.
Wire strainers is a pretty weird topic to have strong opinions on – but it’s a great example of an old simple solution being so irrefutably better than the modern complicated version in every way. That sounds like something a crazy old man would say, BUT HEY WAIT COME BACK […]
Quandong Quest
Many many many years ago, we purchased some homemade spicy Quandong relish on our way to the Flinders Ranges. It was just one of those random small country town purchases, but it lives large in our lives. We ate it all on that one trip – in particular on sandwiches toasted in the camp fire. […]
Cleaning a game cartridge with Eucalyptus oil
Eucalyptus oil is fantastic for removing weird gunk and sticky residue. Today I found this copy of Sim City for the Super Nintendo at Cash Converters. It was in pretty terrible shape, but working. I needed a game cartridge to test my old SNES was working before I sold it, and Sim City was the […]
Where to get Game Boy Pocket Capacitors
The Gameboy pocket has four large, easily replaced surface mount capacitors. And they are located the reverse of the main board here, just by the battery terminals: Note that the board itself handily labels them as C29 through C32. But what are they? C29: 33uF 25v – 7.9mm diameter, 6.3mm height C30: 330uF 6v – […]