Project Harmonograph

Final Project to mark the End of School
B built a harmonograph and created a project on sound, harmony and waves, using maths, physics, music and the artistic creations of the harmonograph to illustrate his report, which he wrote using newly acquired desktop publishing skills.


Here is the project, the demonstration and some excerpts from the published report...
 

 

Harmonograph drawing a graphic representation of musical harmony

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 He spent all afternoon presenting to a continuous curious crowd...

R cruising by

End of day, pleased with self and life

The beautiful harmonograph

The proud presenter

Harmonograph in motion

Woodland Garden Spring

The return of the sun and old friends...

Willow ball made at West Dean on willow weaving course

 with my mum

Crocus at max

Crocus triangle

My bower (alias Swing Seat) currently reading...

View from my bower

Painted walnut logs evolve into ivy sculpture

Missed fast

Forgot to mention Saturday fast;    no breakfast went to market by foot and prepared lunch for all, feeling as good as I ever do,  I had a few strips of steamed turkey and lambs lettuce and a touch of grated carrot for lunch waited 2 hours before having one large tea with milk.

For supper (at 5pm) high protein health food bar and bowl of soup, kept away from others eating and took mind of it watching a film and going to bed before I could think about FOOOOD again.

Feel better if I avoid wheat products and starch of all kinds, strangely

Fast Number Whatever it is feels like 100s

 Decided not to eat meat today.

Ate half an apple and a half a small carrot and took R to Bercy station, having prepared him a delicious packed lunch which I did not nibble.  At least 30 minutes walking.

While I was trying to work out how to get the young persons travel card out of an electronic post R spent the emergency cash on a bottle of coke and a packet of M&Ms which he ate in front of me TORTURE.  Protested loudly.  Got out pre-prepared other half of apple and carrot and nibbled on carrot disconsolately.  All around me came the delicious smells of cafe food and the possibility to get bars out of machines.

Walked back, another 30 mins or bit more as went via the Post Office.  Ate high fibre and protein health bar 130 calories.  4.30 ate bowl of vegetable soup and 1 third of a bar (50.   Still got the rest of the apple and some carrot to 'look forward to'.   Troll is HUNGRY.  Keep concentrating on enjoying the reappearance of something resembling a waist (the original went missing in 1997 and has not been seen since).

Third Fast

Put this off, did it on Wednesday not Tuesday.  Went to market in the morning on nothing more than a cup of herbal tea, had wonderful meetings and experiences, came home, cooked lunch, felt fine.  Ate green salad, a few pieces of dry roast chicken breast, 3 minute strips of roasted pepper vinegar no oil and one large cup of tea with milk.

All afternoon felt hungry and bad.

Cooked beefburger and chips for offsprings.  One offspring was HUNGRY and the other said it was TOO EARLY.  Had to smell and watch beefburger and chips for one hour until other offspring was hungry.    Resisted.

By 5.30 was totally cracking up.  Prepared Essene bread with some soup juice and a v. small bowl of soup.  Ate one satsuma.  Ate another.

Went through hell.  Gave up, decided to eat biscuits, opened the cupboard, withdrew at last minute.  Gave up decided to eat organic chocolate rice crispies, touched the jar, withdrew.  Finally totally gave up, felt white weak, raging, needy - but noticed it was 10pm, if I had resisted that long no need to give up now when sleep and forgetting awaited.  Went to bed without eating, a triumph, felt better in morning.

The Secret; Mattress update

Manifesting the Perfect-for-Us Ecological Orthopaedic Mattress
 (see post The Secret of the Secret, 31 January 2015, and  and the post The Secret Eat Fast Health, 2 February 2015)

 

 I went to the market and took a different route from normal to go to the health food shop.    The first thing I saw was a sign saying SALE MATTRESS HALF PRICE.  For 400 Euros I could buy from an honest dodgy dealer with a roll-up, a latex (must be synthetic) mattress with cotton cover for summer and wool for winter, delivered to my door the next day, old mattress taken away, done and dusted.  Was this it?  God I was tempted.  This was the not quite good enough temptation.

Then I researched truly ecological mattresses;  natural latex from well looked after forests with cared for workers and organic cotton which did not harm the people who laboured it, well and hand crafted in Europe,  1500 - 2000 Euros.  Possible to try one 20 minutes drive away.  If I went there, I would be exposed to  superlative sales techniques, and flat on my back, would probably succumb - whilst making JC feel that we are spending too much on things which we don't really need...  This was the too good temptation (at least for now).

Lost, I abandoned myself to the process, remaining as cheerful and grateful as possible in the circumstances.

In the meantime, in a different current and on another plane,  JC was researching electrical charge and levels of electromagnetism in the home and in us.  He understood the theory and invested in monitoring equipment.

The level of me on our bed was 3 instead of 0.01 - 0.1 healthy level. (electrostatic 'charge').

He ordered a special sheet woven with 700 threads of silver, connected to the 'earth', the level of me on the bed with this sheet was a healthy 0.03 instead of 3.  I have happy legs, I sleep well.  http://www.earthing.com/


And so it occurs to me that this is the perfect for us ecological and orthopaedic mattress:  resolving the true reason for my discomfort, an interference which was undermining my sleep and my general health? 

Diet Scenes

Scene 1;  On the plane coming back from Sweden

JC is staring intently at a pen, its appearance, everything he can impose upon it, its story, right back to the beginning.

Me:   Can I have your biscuits if you don't want them?

JC:     Yes.  Do you need them?

Me:    Definitely not

JC:     Who wants them?

Me:  (Leans across and sings in his ear in Troll voice not my own) 'I'm a Troll   foldy roll'

JC   (laughs)  Do you want them?

Me;  No (did not, and did not eat them).





Scene 2;  Calling up the stairs to R

Me;  Have you got any sweets, I need sweets

R      No

Me   No?  How can that be possible?  Please please just one, I really want SWEETS

R     Do you want calories?

Me  No (stopped begging and went away)