June 2009
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“Most journalists are shit. Go where no one else will go. Write what no one else...”
– The Reverse Cowgirl: Letter to a Young Writer (via krislane)
… following on from my last post. If you’re doing it for the ping, make sure it’s different, worth my time and really shows the value of your expertise against what my literary-minded friends are doing…
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a moment
in the morning, while i drink my coffee and start mentally organising my priorities for the day, i like to cherrypick and browse a few of my favourite feeds. this morning was a particularly good day with posts ranging on a wide variety of topics which were smart and well composed.
i love this about the internet. scratch the surface and there is independent opinion content which is often written...
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back in al ain & then off again
saturday was my nephew’s birthday party day and we spent the morning preparing a nice lunch for the party. my mother had made a madeira cake and we made a cave on the top, added dinosaurs and some sprinkles and it was jurassic park all over again. after the party we had a short rest and then headed in to the town square for some early supper.
the town square is a large area bordered by...
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a trip up north and over the border
on wednesday we started the journey up north and our first trip into oman. we had decided to visit dubai again and stay a night there so we could catch up with my nz friend sophie who lives at the moment in sharjah (though is about to head off to ethiopia to teach).
dubai is largely unappealing to me as a city despite having the apparent ‘sydney syndrome’ and being a popular place...
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holiday updates, continued
monday was a bit of a chill out day as really we were planning our side travels for later in the week and taking it a bit easy. in the afternoon we went to the hotel ratana for a swim which was lovely - it has bar stools in the hotel pool bar but we just swam around a bit and then laid out in the late afternoon sun. my favourite time of the day here is about 5-6pm to swim when its still so warm...
May 2009
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al ain, continued
on sunday mum had to work so darren & i decided to do some touring around al ain. we went and picked up our rental car and got straight into the traffic. mum lent us her gps, which is a complete saviour. the voice on it is a british computer voice called derek (at the moment anyway) so we all refer to it as derek. derek copes very well with us, even when there are detours because the roads...