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Las Super Nenas
Holly found this great Spanish Powerpuff Girls pasta today. How cool!
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Circular party
Last Friday, Holly and I managed to make it along to a party on the Circle Line. For those who don't know London, the Circle Line is the tube line that loops around the centre of London, the party adv…
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My god, we won!
We went to an English pub in Kennington to watch the match last night, Australia vs England. We were the only Aussies in the pub but it was a good natured crowd, considering we whupped their butts. A…
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Republicans go wild for Vietnam war re-enactments
It's funny what you see going through your web server logs. Whenever you hit a web page, your browser sends the address of the site from which you linked, known as the referrer. This gives the web sit…
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Stretched metaphors spring back
Rupert's southern subs are getting their metaphors confused. Fires are supposedly laying "siege" to Sydney. Now we get Fires pound south-west Sydney, which conjures up all sorts of images. Then again,…
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The Psychedelicatessen
What's Rangoon to you is Grafton to me is an amazing radio play done by double-J, an Australian youth radio station, in 1978. It's amazing stuff. Check it out here.
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Back in London
Well we just arrived back in London. I'm surfing the jetlag express. Oh what fun! Pretty soon, I'll be hallucinating, no doubt. Just as soon as I finish chatting to the purple numbat sitting on my mon…
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Beds are Burning?
They say travel broadens the mind. Well I guess it does. Tonight I was reminded that the horrors of BBC Radio 1 are nothing compared to the pain of Eurotrash radio stations. Sitting in a pizza joint i…
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Ljubuljana and cross-country skiing
I'm sitting in my hotel room nursing a beer (they stop selling take away beers at 9pm, so it's a minibar one that will have to be replaced before the maid gets here and counts them) and revelling in a…
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Off to Slovenia
I'm off to Ljubljana on Sunday night for two weeks doing test support on a client site. I'm looking forward to seeing a new city and country. Spring is on its way here in London. Leaving work at 17:30…
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Weekend in Glasgow
I had some frequent flyer points that were about to expire, so we went to Glasgow for the weekend. We had a very nice time in lovely weather, actually warmer than London. The Scottish Riviera? Anyway,…
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Some new photos
My parents have been in town, though they're heading back to Sydney tonight. We've been out and about a lot, including a week in France and a weekend in Norfolk. This weekend we spent in London. Yeste…
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Weekend in Norfolk
My folks are in town so we bundled into a hire car early on Saturday morning and headed to Norfolk for the weekend. We finally joined the National Trust and visited a couple of great historic houses,…
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Hiking the Ridgeway
Holly and I went hiking along The Ridgeway over the long weekend. Looking at that map, we started at Avebury and climbed the ridge, then kept going for three days. We ended up at Wantage. A great thre…
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Photos are up
I spent much of the weekend scanning photos. There's stack of new photos up here. A weekend away at an Anglo-Saxon burial site. This year's Glastonbury St Petersburg Moscow Rostov the Great, a town ou…
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Back from Russia
Haven't had a chance to write about our experiences in Russia yet. Tomorrow night I'll be picking up our photos and will spend the night scanning them in and writing about it. We had a fabulous time a…
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The little red button
I'm sitting in an Internet cafe in Moscow around the corner from Nate and Jen's flat. There's a little red button next to the monitor. If I press it, a waiter comes out and will refill my beer. Moscow…
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A great weekend away
We got back last night from an excellent weekend away with Matt, Maz, John and Anne. We were staying in a National Trust property, Sutton Hoo, the site of many Anglo-Saxon burial mounds, including the…
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The English could learn from the Russians
You've probably heard me moan about English beurocracy before. Well they're nothing compared to the Russians! I'm trying to get a tourist visa so I can go and spend money in their country, boosting th…
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Booked for Russia
We just booked our flights to Moscow for July. We'll be spending two weeks with our friends Nathan and Jenny. They have a flat in Moscow and another in St Petersburg so we'll be dividing our time betw…