Bibliophilia

Many Antarctica observers remark how the extraordinarily clear dry atmosphere, white on white environment, and months of nonstop daylight, ...

I did a final padding out of my Antarctic contours before stitching on the sea level blanket. I cut careful slits through the back layers a...

On May 12 1970 this baby-faced family boarded a plane from Winnipeg, Canada to Hamilton, New Zealand, and forty years later three of us are ...

Looking out to sea from behind the South Pole My long search for an appropriate blanket to use as the background of the Southern Ocean is fi...

Blogging bonus- I'm featured today on the Simple Elements blog , where I was asked about what inspires me.

Looking down from the polar plateau across the Ronne Ice Shelf to the Antarctica Peninsula. My dear friend, Harmony, enquired today after my...

My paid job goes full time for a couple of weeks. I'm not sure I'll want to do much blogging in my own time.

Every day I go outside and collect the ripe feijoas that have fallen from the neighbour's tree onto this side of the fence. The feijoa...

A blog reader, Barry Smith, who has been following the progress of My Antartcia, recently sent me these photos that he took of the Beardmor...

My Antarctic now includes the peninsula, and is finally looking more like itself with the 500m contour. Here it is being pinned together la...

If I were Amundsen I would have stitched my Antarctic contours on a customised industrial machine, after years of patient, careful study to...

For the past week or so I have been observing with interest the action on our swan plant. Caterpillars eating and growing and then hanging ...

Bent needles Ross Island has come home from its long sojourn at the framers. It took me months to scrape up enough money to pay for the m...

It's only taken me ten days to stitch the 1500m contour. Sooner than I expected, I find myself at the edge of the plateau and the way ...

I worry that if I harp on too much about Antarctica the internet will get bored with me and go away. But I have nothing else to say really....