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Article: A transparency quite opaque
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- The Nelson Mail
- Article date:
- August 1, 2009
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I was staring out of the kitchen window yesterday, as you do when
you're washing the dishes, and I saw a yacht come out from Waitapu
wharf and, chugging slowly, head down the old dredged channel. The
sky was cloudless, the sea calm . . . no, I'm not going to
rhapsodise about those; the thing that impressed me was what an
amazing, almost magical invention window glass is. You can't see it
but it keeps draughts and rain out while letting the view in. I
can't help but admire the stuff.
Mind you, a different perspective presents itself to those small
creatures like houseflies, bumble bees and the occasional bird.
Imagine that you're a bumble bee and you've come into our sunroom on
some whim. ...