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My birthday, by Rosanne, aged 37
Tuesday was a crazy day at my new job but Doug came and picked me up at 6pm and we went to dinner. I chose Lemongrass, because I knew we were going to a movie later and I haven’t been there for ages and ages. We had absolutely delightful mieng (those little parcels of…
Networking again
Hey, paracelsus! I reckon you should get to know a friend of mine from the Bay area, banjomensch. Or at the very least, read this. crystalstorm, p_cat, gnosticprophet and qamar will also be interested, I imagine. The rest of you, explore if you like and enjoy the…
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Protected: Rain on my parade, I mean, picnic
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Protected: Birthday!!
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Life is not measured by the breaths you take…
… but by the moments that take your breath away. I can’t find a source for this quote but it is one of the most inspirational texts for me.Another is one that I found on a piece of beautiful swirly red scrapbook paper in the US, a quote from Goethe: We are shaped…
In lieu of actual content
Actual updates to come this weekend, I promise. In the meantime, I give you this gem:Man wakes up as train runs over him.
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Protected: sydney flying visit, again.
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My incredibly clever love…
…just made himself a pin-hole camera using the body of his Canon camera, a slide-holder, a square cut out of a soft-drink can, some gaffa tape and a pin. Clever clogs!
Invisible privilege
We had an awesome New Year’s at home with just e_dan, qamar, morganjaffit and crystal_storm and a bucketload of leftover wedding wine and beer. We were hoping for morgan303 and patchworkkid but they were unable to make it and it sounds like they had an awesome time…
That looking back thing you do
Here at the sweltering end of the globe (currently around 40° and forecast to hit 42° Celsius – that’s 107.6° F for you northerners) it’s New Year’s Eve and time to glance back and evaluate. A few years ago, I was pretty miserable. I made up for it by making public…
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That festival, you know, three days after Solstice
As most of you know, I’m not a big fan of Christmas, mostly due to the massive assumptions in this society that it is or should be universally celebrated. So, I’ve naturally enjoyed this video that patchworkkidposted. It’s Stephen Fry discussing the similarities…
In which the trusted ones are handfasted and wed
Click on the image to play the 40 minute movie of the Australian ceremony. Apologies for the shakiness… we couldn’t get the standard video camera working so this was shot on an iSight.
Wedding rain
Finally emerged from our marital bed this afternoon and made duck-egg omelette with smoked trout and avocado and parmesan. Mmmm.The wedding was wonderful, rain included, although I’m disappointed with the way the technology failed to function. Especial apologies to…
Phoenix Emberstone
passionate political poet
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