A Rhombic Star

One of the great things about the school holidays is that you get to indulge in games and origami with some of your students. This time, the chosen project will be a rhombic star, as requested by someone very interested in the crafting side of things. It could have been the game 'Paperback', now considered a minor phenomenon, but the rhombic star prevailed. 'Paperback' will wait until the Summer.

Modular origami is often both frustratingly simple and annoyingly elegant. The dodecahedron is a classic example of that, as it requires twelve components, six of two slightly varying types, and is beautiful when completed, as long as you can fix it together before it explodes again! Invisible tape to the rescue! The rhombic star requires twenty four modules, and therefore a lot of prior preparation! how is it going to work out? Will it be a triumph or a disaster? It will definitely be a nice relief from GCSE season, that's for sure!

In gaming news, a very eventful game of 'Tales Of The Arabian Nights' can be reported. It featured instances of insanity, imprisonment, grief, envy, crippling wounds, a bald gorilla, several pilgrimages, scorn, determination and finally a marginal victory for Ali Baba due to Sinbad being trapped in a prison and marriage. If none of that made any sense, you may need to look up the game! At least this time, I wasn't turned into an ape or enslaved by wandering genies. It's a classic, really. A classic or storytelling.

The general election is still limping along (at the time of writing), now in the wake of a ghoulish bombing in Manchester, but it seems there is some hope in the air. Despite all the negative campaigning from the previous winners, there are definitely two possible governments in waiting now, with two very distinct ideologies. After decades of there being only one choice of thought, disguised under different colours of rosettes, it seems things may be shifting. The choice is the important thing. Expect more tangential and hopefully not too partial comments in the future, mainly on the sheer bias and stupidity of reporting. Egads! Does no-one go looking for stories anymore? There's more to journalism than reading press releases, after all, especially poisonous and toxic lies.

A rhombic star. Fascinating. Much more interesting than politics. Watch out, origami's about.

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