The Joy Of Socks - Wearing Odd Socks On Purpose
Wearing odd pairs of socks is silly and fun - it's like being extrovert in secret. So can we make it sillier, or more fun?
Petite Post - Finding The Lower Limit Of Postal Dimensions
Royal Mail has quite a lot to say about the maximum sizes and weights of items to be posted, but surprisingly little about the minimums.
This is the start of a little project to try to discover just how small an item can be successfully posted.
Collected Works - Books For Free
Following on from the enormous success of Project Ebenezer, I continued to find lost and discarded money on an almost daily basis.
But what use to put it to? Well, I'm going to buy books.
Gleaning
August 2011 - My attempt to home-grow cereal crops on a small scale is not going altogether as well as I had hoped, so I've supplemented my meagre harvest by going out gleaning.
Extruded Food
May 2011 - I found a second hand set of Play-Doh shaping tools in a charity shop for the bargain price of £1.50. The set includes a couple of different extruder tools which have potential for fun in the kitchen.
Cheese Experiment
I've made acid-set cottage cheese before, in the form of Paneer, but unlike a matured cheese, the fresh curds have a very mild taste.
There doesn't seem to be much information out there describing whether acid-set curds can be pressed and aged, so I decided to try it for myself.
Podoscypha Multizonata
I think this might be the most excited I've ever been about a fungus - and it isn't even edible - so what's going on? Well, it's a bit special, because it's big, strange-looking, and really quite uncommon - it's Podoscypha multizonata.
Reverse Engineering The D Ration Bar
The Military D Ration bar was a chocolate bar designed to be high in energy and highly durable and portable - to provide emergency nutrition in battle.
Let's see if I can re-create it.
Energy Bars
This is an experimental attempt to make a compact, durable, tasty, high-energy foodstuff suitable for carrying and eating while walking, exploring and hiking.
Project Ebenezer- Christmas Dinner For Free
Project Horseshoe (an empirical search for luck) can't really be described as a massive success - so I'm going to try something else - funding next year's Christmas dinner for free.
A Dozen Uses For Kinder Surprise Egg Prize Pods
Kinder eggs - 20g of milky chocolate wrapped around small (and often bizarre) toy.
The toy is encased in a snap-closed plastic pod that is too good to throw away - here are a dozen different things you can do with them...
Clouds Of Suspicion - An Audit Of The 5 Day Weather Forecast
5-day weather forecasts are available from a number of sources now - but how accurate and how reliable are they, really? - let's find out.
Project Horseshoe - An Empirical Search For Luck
Does luck exist? Not luck in the sense of falling pianos narrowly missing preoccupied pedestrians - luck in the sense of fortuitous outcome, manufactured or provoked by items or actions considered 'lucky'.
I propose an experiment, in which every effort will be made to impart luck to an outcome - here it is.
WDMD?
What do morons drink? You may never have wondered about this, but I did, so I set about finding out.
FREE Charity Ads
I've decided to offer some ad space on this site to human welfare charities for free - If you have connections with a non-profit organisation that might be interested, please take a look.
Edible Spin Art
I'm not really sure what I was thinking when this idea popped into my head - it's a fusion of food and fun - edible spin art
Cider Yeast Bread
In the process of making cider, I had some yeast sediment to discard - this is wild yeast that occurs naturally on the skins of the apples - I couldn't help wondering if I might be able to use it to make bread
Red Cabbage Science
Red cabbage is more than just a vegetable to be enjoyed by adults and feared by children - it can be used as a tool for science...
What To Do With 10 Gallons Of Apple Juice
I helped out a little in a friend's orchard and he gave me 10 gallons of beautiful freshly pressed apple juice, but what can I do with it?
The Dirty Little Secret Of Inkjet Printers
Inkjet printers are great, aren't they? ... or are they? I reveal The Dirty Little Secret of Inkjet Printers.
What's Your Atomic Shrimp Name?
Just a bit of random fun - find out your Atomic Shrimp Name - that is, your name, if it was based on themes from elsewhere on this website.
Moths Get Red Eye Too
I was called upon by my daughter to remove a fairly large moth from her bedroom ... I noticed two tiny, glittering brilliant pink jewels on its head - as it turns out, moths get red eye, just like everyone else.
Making A Quill Pen
A walk alongside the Basingstoke Canal yielded some large swan feathers, in good condition.
I decided to try to make a quill pen
Tuppenny Sausages
June 2008 - A new supermarket price war has been declared, The weapons in this war are... sausages
Lost Gloves
For some years now, I've been collecting photographs of lost gloves - it may be the closest thing to a hobby I've ever had. Yes, I know it's a bit strange.
Capturing And Taming Wild Yeast
Not sure if this one belongs here, or on the Wild Food page - or maybe in Projects. Anyway, this was a project where I captured wild yeasts and used them to make sourdough bread.
Mi Alimento Tiene Muchos Ojos - My Food Has Many Eyes
I spent Easter 2007 in Spain near Puerto de Mazarron - the town has a small but excellent indoor market - at one of the fish stalls, I spotted some tiny translucent, wormy things that looked like little white fish.
The Mouse Organ
My very first attempt at creating an interactive flash animation - here it is - The Mouse Organ.
