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		<title>Mission Control</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Dear friends, Ours is a push-button digital world. Very convenient it is too, but somehow it’s lost the tactile sense that old analog equipment had. My study is a strange hybrid of the old and the new. On the wall now is a generator control panel from the early 20th century, and it is slowly [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://handley.org.uk/fzz/?p=94</link>
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		<title>Portsmouth Historic Dockyard</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Dear friends, This Sunday was the Celebration of Steam weekend at Portsmouth Historic Dockyard, and a good an excuse as any to take my younger son to play with steam. Read on&#8230; &#8211; Fzz]]></description>
		<link>http://handley.org.uk/fzz/?p=81</link>
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		<title>Ice Karting</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Dear friends, We found a new use for the electric go-kart today. Thought it might amuse you. Cheers, Fzz]]></description>
		<link>http://handley.org.uk/fzz/?p=71</link>
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		<title>Steam Robot Mask</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Dear friends, Hallowe&#8217;en has rolled around again, and my eldest is developing more refined tastes. No longer is it sufficient just to be a wizard; now he wants to be a steam robot, sidekick to Doctor Steam. And so it shall be. Click here for pictures, video and construction details. Cheers, Fzz]]></description>
		<link>http://handley.org.uk/fzz/?p=70</link>
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		<title>Hydrogen Reconnaissance Balloon</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Dear friends, It’s Easter, and in the Fzz family that can only mean one thing:  the Easter Challenge.  Last year we built an Egg Cannon, but this year the challenge was to build a device to take an aerial photograph of my father’s house.  Extra points are awarded for style and the use of mad [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://handley.org.uk/fzz/?p=67</link>
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		<title>The Mask</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A sneak preview of my Halloween costume. More pictures are here.]]></description>
		<link>http://handley.org.uk/fzz/?p=65</link>
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		<title>Internet Pressure Gauge</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Dear friends, Before our Steam Rocket leaked fuel into the top of it, I used to have a wireless basestation on my desk, and I’d got it the habit of looking at the activity lights when a download was taking longer than it should to see if anything was actually happening. Being a creature of [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://handley.org.uk/fzz/?p=63</link>
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		<description><![CDATA[Dear friends, Thanks to a suggestion from OutaSpaceman, we journeyed down to the Hollycombe Steam Collection in Hampshire for their Festival of Steam. My youngest son is obsessed with trains, but even he was occasionally enticed off the rails onto the fabulous Edwardian steam-powered fairground rides today. A wonderful day out and a great hit [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://handley.org.uk/fzz/?p=60</link>
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		<title>Heat Ray of Death</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Dear friends, It’s midsummer and we had a beautiful sunny day today. Perfect to demonstrate the awe-inspiring power of the sun, focused through our giant lens into the heat ray of death (at least to any ants that wander into its path). Cardboard catches fire instantaneously, wood burns in a few seconds, plastic melts and [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://handley.org.uk/fzz/?p=58</link>
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		<title>Professor Magnus and the Thunder Lizard</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Dear friends, My son and I had a wonderful time last weekend making a short film about a certain mad scientist.  Hope you enjoy it. Cheers, Fzz]]></description>
		<link>http://handley.org.uk/fzz/?p=54</link>
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		<title>The Steam Rocket</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Dear friends, What better to entertain the young steamers at the steampunk picnic than a steam rocket! We knocked this together in a couple of evenings, and didn&#8217;t have time to test it before heading off to deepest darkest Penge. Read more about its construction and public debut here. Yours, Fzz]]></description>
		<link>http://handley.org.uk/fzz/?p=52</link>
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		<title>Dinosaur Safari</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Dear friends, Today saw us journey to the far reaches of Penge on the trail of the elusive thunder lizards. Pictured below is the inestimable Herr Döktor, our expedition leader, having just found the first sign of their presence. We have many more pictures from the Safari and picnic. Yours, Fzz]]></description>
		<link>http://handley.org.uk/fzz/?p=49</link>
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		<title>Egg Cannon</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Every Easter my brother and I have a friendly competition &#8211; together with our kids the challenge is to build some crazy device to throw an egg as far as possible. The criteria are simple &#8211; either build it from whatever is in Dad’s garage (which is full of useful building materials), or it has [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://handley.org.uk/fzz/?p=48</link>
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		<title>California State Railroad Museum</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Dear friends, On Sunday my son and I were forced down from the mountains early by a huge snow storm, so we took the opportunity to call in at the California State Railroad Museum in Sacramento on our way back to San Francisco. The museum isn’t huge, and as it was winter they didn’t have [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://handley.org.uk/fzz/?p=45</link>
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		<title>Gastown Steam Clock</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Dear friends, December found me in Vancouver, one of my favorite cities with its stunning location overlooking both the sea and the mountains. Vancouver is also home to the rather wonderful Gastown Steam Clock. The clock is fairly recent, being built in 1977, but it’s decidedly steampunk nonetheless. A small steam engine is powered from [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://handley.org.uk/fzz/?p=40</link>
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