tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36459652012-02-17T05:57:26.428+11:00Gathering NEW bits of irrelevancyAndreahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17302990839186249103noreply@blogger.comBlogger3981100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3645965.post-51236370624751093072010-09-02T19:39:00.001+10:002010-09-02T19:54:08.568+10:00

So, I got a new laptop - and guess what, in the left hand corner, below the keys, is a little shiny light that says....wait for it....Satellite!!! How's that for a prompt. I have been trying not very successfully to get cracking again with a blog. but maybe not this blog?? I think maybe not.  When i first came back to Oz after my stint overseas i set up a new blog, and never actually got

Andreahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17302990839186249103noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3645965.post-12311489672656359582010-06-30T16:41:00.002+10:002010-06-30T16:41:54.827+10:00

So much for the new years resolution. 5 posts for the year does not a new start make. oops. i'll get there i will. around the time i have space for me in this house. right around then. oh, and a new laptop. that would help.

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It's flooding again. Melancholy weather, good for painting and music. Love Curtis Mayfield for this kind of weather. love it.

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Our neighbour just delivery 2 dozen mangos to our door....free. I am making chutney, stewing them, having some fresh frozen for smoothies, and taking some to work. Mango Mango Mango. Yum.

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One more thing....code language all changed....since 2002. Argh. I went searching through the code wanting to customise, and couldn't find where i put my BOLD and my ITALIC tags and how I re-structure it all and ad a background. Oh dear. I see this is all going to be a bit uphill learning curve. I've been out of the loop haven't I. Have de-techified. Lemming'd. It's like I left the world for a

Andreahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17302990839186249103noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3645965.post-51877227192910456792010-01-10T08:08:00.002+11:002010-01-10T08:20:09.483+11:00

First blog for the new millenium. And what do I have to say?? Nothing and plenty.Where to start? ? Stopped by Loobylu this morning for a bit of morning inspiration, and between her and Tamsin got inspired a little bit enough to find my way to blogger and try for a new new years resolution of starting blogging again. I reckon I'll get myself organised and even have a crack at a wizz bang blog site

Andreahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17302990839186249103noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3645965.post-58287898739689290652007-03-24T18:12:00.000+11:002007-03-24T18:14:18.897+11:00

deferring deferring deferring the moment i have to start this effing 'risk assessment' excercise, followed by double entry effing accounting bollocks.i officially do not like this effing masters, and i officially want it to end!give me some real real stuff instead of maths and numbers bollocks.

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Walking on the street I heard him say, 'at 3.00 today, that is when the ceasefire starts'. 3.00pm Australian time, 9.00am Dubai time, and most importantly 8.00am Beirut time.He was Israeli, I am nearly certain. There are many israeli's here, with their charisma and their dread locks, or smooth polished shaved heads. They definately walk tall, and with a kind of confidence that many describe as

Andreahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17302990839186249103noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3645965.post-1152428341423013162006-07-09T16:20:00.000+10:002006-07-09T17:04:43.106+10:00

Does everybody have those moments in life, which are destined to be forever frozen in time,where you spend the next decade wondering if it really was....or did you invent it.I just watched Before Sunset. It was so familiar. I mean in my version of the story, we first met in a crowded pub,and then again nine years later, in a stolen slice of time at an airport.There was always this sense of things

Andreahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17302990839186249103noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3645965.post-1150542959148126042006-06-17T20:53:00.000+10:002006-06-17T21:15:59.166+10:00

When I was a kid my mom used to make this really yummy african dish...which I swear she used to call coloured greens.I made my own version of it for dinner tonight, and when I went looking for it on the web....all I found was Collard Greens.....Its a traditional kenyan dish, which in Swahili is called Sukuma wiki - which the recipe pages below will tell you means 'stretch the week'...My Mum's

Andreahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17302990839186249103noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3645965.post-1150021713841776772006-06-11T20:26:00.000+10:002006-06-11T20:28:33.843+10:00

I'm trying again. to see if the colours right themselves.

Andreahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17302990839186249103noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3645965.post-1150021103384533342006-06-11T19:28:00.000+10:002006-06-11T20:29:45.690+10:00

It's time to show you some photos. i think the colours have gone a bit funky for some very strange reason......Guell WindowSydney by nightGaudi ArchPriest Lake TreesPriest Lake in May

Andreahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17302990839186249103noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3645965.post-1149759092675787232006-06-08T18:57:00.000+10:002006-06-08T19:32:40.166+10:00

Base Jumping, scary but beautiful.Sopie Delezio, one brave tough little cookiegreat image, poor ethics...well no ethics.Soccer - now i know why we have a public holiday on monday

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In an effort to face Sunday mornings with a good attitute and to get the morning started on a positive note, a friend and I decided to try and put a sunday morning lighthouse walk on the menu. We walked from clarkes beach (beyond the second point in the photo) to the lighthouse and back, she walked her brisk super fit pace, and I huffed and puffed behind...We followed it up with a fresh vege

Andreahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17302990839186249103noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3645965.post-1148892890623866092006-05-29T18:52:00.000+10:002006-05-29T18:55:19.920+10:00

Dinner: T-bone steak fried in Red wine,olive tapenade, mustard. with fried mushrooms, with steamed carrot and turnip with locally made mayo'.Desert: stewed Rhubarb with Organic yoghurt.

Andreahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17302990839186249103noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3645965.post-1148774250951265752006-05-28T09:56:00.000+10:002006-05-28T09:57:30.960+10:00

That Cate Blanchett is playing Bob Dylan in an upcoming movie.............

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Listening to : james blunt- back to bedlam Zavier Rudd- SolaceReading:...Ekhardt Tolle- A new Earth. What else, Daniel Armfields' thesis. Watching: What the bleep Do we know? Big brother House Doc. Martin A documentary about Aboriginal cultureFeeling: Ah fuck, don't ask the hard questions.

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I've been re-visiting my old favorite blogs...well known ones, that have been around a long time...but there are changes.Loobylu has a new site...perfect for creative mummies and daddies...Megnut is cooking her little heart out and hunting down cooks all over the place,Davezilla cracks me up as ever....geez i wish i had the guts to follow his '20 ways to be left alone at work'...and then then

Andreahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17302990839186249103noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3645965.post-1148172795837258832006-05-21T10:31:00.000+10:002006-05-21T10:53:15.893+10:00

I made $105 in a garage sale yesterday! Last time i had one i made '$8...so it is a wee improvement.Meanwhile, this morning has started gloriously. No interruptions, and lots of time for me me me me me...which I have been missing of late.I slept in till 8'o clock for once, and then finally got my shit together and walked down to the beach with the Dustmeister. He is being quite...concerned...

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geez. what a month.lets see:- my grandmother died two months ago, she lives in germany...they didn't tell us till a month after it happened.Makes it really easy to get closure..NOT-one 55 hour week in 4 days-one major essay due- 2500words- generally busy as hell at work - but the 'business manageer' just quietly tells me that most people average a 5 hour unpaid overtime a week, and she notices i

Andreahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17302990839186249103noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3645965.post-1143539763992582832006-03-28T20:35:00.000+11:002006-03-28T21:06:11.590+11:00

It seems the only times I have had the urge to post something on this blog this year or last year - it has been raining.Meanwhile, what is life doing? Well, it's plodding along. Nothing exciting to tell. I am toying with the idea of trying to find somewhere to buy a house, but am just a little scared of the idea of all that debt, although I know I shouldn't be, after all, everybody has it...well

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Vertigo hits you, like a fuzzy wave, like you are sea sick in your own head!Is it a fever? What is going one???And to think i thought i would be able to go to work today. Yawn,Meanwhile, there has been so much rain lately that i am fighting a tide of mould and mustyness. To think I am again contempateing a period of time in the extreme opposite of this!Meanwhile, back to study.... where trying

Andreahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17302990839186249103noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3645965.post-1137030766150840202006-01-12T12:50:00.000+11:002006-01-12T12:52:46.163+11:00

It's raining frogs and cane toads, daily at 7.30am, and then at 5 in the evening.Deary me.Meanwhile, I am reading Shantaram. Read it.

Andreahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17302990839186249103noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3645965.post-1122807539019102862005-07-31T20:55:00.000+10:002005-07-31T20:58:59.026+10:00

definition of a good weekend; you meet a guy online, bump into an old school friend at her (reasonably famous) boyfriends gig, and end up out for dinner with 2 reasonably famous aussie musos, the old school friend, and the online guy who turns out to be friends with them!

Andreahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17302990839186249103noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3645965.post-1120096934718892752005-06-30T11:44:00.000+10:002005-06-30T12:02:14.743+10:00

.....it floods. Luckily I am only suffering from 'leakages' at the moment, but there are a few road closures, and pretty bad flooding in neighbouring towns.It means though that I am reasonably marooned....Well, I think neighbouring roads are open, I'm just wary of getting stuck somewhere, not knowing where roads tend to flood.I'm spending my time reading about wine..... not a bad option i think

Andreahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17302990839186249103noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3645965.post-1119855983085833672005-06-27T16:56:00.000+10:002005-06-27T17:07:56.976+10:00

Salt smells in the air,dogs run in circles,rotating fans spin around......words of one of my favourite songs, 'rain' from Not Drowning Waving. And it is raining. It has been raining most of today, and yesterday, and the day before. Not all of yesterday though. Enough time to go to ArtScape Installations sculpture exhibition out at Cape Byron yesterday, with some people i met the night before.It

Andreahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17302990839186249103noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3645965.post-1119575573882508682005-06-24T10:56:00.000+10:002005-06-24T11:19:36.183+10:00

Amandla is a South African word, a xhosa word, means power. It is also a documentary i just watched which is about the music of the south african revolution, which brought down apartheid.I just finished watching it, it made me cry, and dance, and sing along to the songs i knew.*****I keep playing those songs now, Soweto Street songs, old african songs. I'm not african, despite my family having

Andreahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17302990839186249103noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3645965.post-1117410102631963442005-05-30T09:38:00.000+10:002005-05-30T09:51:23.410+10:00

Pull your head out of the sand As I am studying 'Sustainability' this semester, I am going to try and direct my posts in that direction. So, here, an article by Mark Hertsgaard, a political/environmental journalist who wrote the book 'Earth Odyssey'.

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I had thought that would be what winter was all about, but who knows now. I have an interview up north, where the antartic winds don't reach, and where my scarfs will never see the light of day.If i get the job, if i go there, I will drink wine, but discard the woolies.It is 'effing' freezing here in my little old town today- an indicator of what is to come, or a reminder only of what i have

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Just quickly aussie mba 'what good managers do'If only all managers knew this. It is what would have made all the difference to my working environment in Dubai. There were a certain few people who could have learnt a lot!!One of those said people has now implemented a 'no music' ban in the office. Hmmn, i am sure that will motivate people!

Andreahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17302990839186249103noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3645965.post-1116140139350147502005-05-15T16:43:00.000+10:002005-05-15T16:55:39.356+10:00

For the first time I checked out the blog at the top of the blogger list, and it was a good one. It inspired me, http://aussiemba.blogspot.com/and got me reading http://www.ciwmb.ca.gov/2000Plus/Events/SummitJan99/keytext.htmthis, by a guy I discovered this semester in my Environmental Architecture class.Meanwhile, I need to realearn some simple code to fix up these links of mine.

Andreahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17302990839186249103noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3645965.post-1115687070028011232005-05-10T10:53:00.000+10:002005-05-15T16:42:16.970+10:00

My how we grow, and how quickly.You see, I just went back three years to when I started this blog, to the innaugural entries.I know now that I am incredibly naiive about so many things, I mean I knew that already, but I just got a loud slap of a reminder.They (whoever they are) are so right when they say the more you learn, they more you realise how much you don't know....or something like that.

Andreahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17302990839186249103noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3645965.post-1115621660654333012005-05-09T16:42:00.000+10:002005-05-09T16:54:20.723+10:00

sometimes i think it is the Motto I live by....Meanwhile,Reading: Angels and Demons- Dan Brown.Yes, have joined the masses, and am reading Dan Brown. The third so far. Just started it.Also been reading 'The No1 Ladies Detective Agency' series, by Alexander McCall Smith. Serious case of readers block, (try general motivation, inspiration, enthusiasm, passion block) calls for serious measures.

Andreahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17302990839186249103noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3645965.post-1114759427741075252005-04-29T17:13:00.000+10:002005-05-02T16:40:07.200+10:00

that's what the news will be telling me when i see the icycles at the end of my nose!No more Dubai. I left 2 weeks ago, in case i forgot to tell you. It had to happen, and now it is done. I go fetch dog Dusty from quarantine tomorrow, and the ship with my two giant boxes arrives in about a week. And, I am in the process of sorting out Uni Enrollments, Housing, Jobs, Removals and all the fun stuff

Andreahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17302990839186249103noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3645965.post-1104743028098780862005-01-03T20:57:00.000+11:002005-01-03T20:03:48.096+11:00

Considering the events of the last year, and specifically at the very end of last year, my new years resolution is to be more proactive- to start doing the things I have been talking about. My first task was to get the company i work for to get their shit together and fork out some cash for the Tsunami appeal. We are taking the cash, along with a load of clothes, blankets etc. down to the Dubai

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I grew up listening to this guy Macca doing talk back radio every sunday morning when i was a kid, and years later he is still doing it. His show is called Australia All Over, and he basically does his radio show from all over the country. He has this segment called 'i tell you why i live where i live', and this one time a woman called in from a boat in the pacific. I love it mate. Well,

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i forgot to tell you about India. If you head over to Desert Dame Pics you will see some pics of India. As per usual, badly formated, poorly sized, but you get the idea. Meanwhile LOVEMARKS has gotten me interested. Particularly the Slingfings. Bag anyone? Other than that It's Ramadan time here, life is quietly busy...lots of rugby training! that's all folks.

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Like everyone else at the moment i have been reading http://www.gapingvoid.com/ oops. gotta go.

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Apparently it is a very australian mistake. My mom reminds me on a regular basis of my failing. So, apologies all for the cafe's not cafes. and other embaressingly stupid grammatical and syntax errors, errors such as starting a sentence with and, and without a capital letter!

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lunchtime mind wanderings: billy joel is singing 'the piano man', so am i, waiting for some &^*% to come in and tell me to shut my trap. la di da di di da da da... I am staring at a large arial photograph of abu dhabi island, the city waiting to be an archipelago, and am thinking if i am going to have such a huge 'freakin' image in front of me, it should at least be somewhere i want to be, or

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Its january here, a mid january in europe, in a city like Frankfurt. The difference being that in Frankfurt in mid january you can layer up with scarves and woolies and then strip off in neat cafe's and bars. Here, well, there is only a certain amount you can strip down to in peak summer, and in the bars and cafe's, it is alternatively freezing cold, or hot and sweaty. yeuch. It is the time of

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I posted, at last, some pics,at and am too bloody lazy to resize them...Desert Dame When i get my shit together i will do it PROPERLY.

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so, as i have no tv these days, or telephone( due to my own laziness and nothing other)I have lots of time to read, and am as a consequence desperately in need of bookshelves. I just finished reading a book about a bookseller and his family in Kabul. Did you know that the window in the Burka was designed specifically so it is small enough to cut out any peripheral vision, in order that every

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so, as i have no tv these days, or telephone( due to my own laziness and nothing other)I have lots of time to read, and am as a consequence desperately in need of bookshelves. I just finished reading a book about a bookseller and his family in Kabul. Did you know that the window in the Burka was designed specifically so it is small enough to cut out any peripheral vision, in order that every

Andreahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17302990839186249103noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3645965.post-1087313270630407022004-06-16T01:23:00.000+10:002004-06-16T01:27:50.630+10:00

out the window goes another,made it by a hares length...or something like that. I am sitting waiting to go to the tailors having just put a design to bed which i am actually remotely..somewhat happy with. It is not organic 70's mumbo jumbo gardening crap, but a decent contemporary plaza design...i hope. meanwhile, the sun is setting, dave matthews is playing madly in the background, and I am

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Emirates internet is allowing me to laugh at Davezilla again. Wooohooo

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Last weekend we had a roof dinner party. We lazed on carpets and cushions with good food and wine looking at the stars and the watching the Burj al Arab changing colour. We played twister and giggled at our own embaressingly flexible contortions. Around midnight we wound down for the night and my evening ended with a plan to go out on a boating excusion the next day. 9.30, bright and early

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Well, you would have if you had my job. Try working on a site 40 km into the desert, surrounded by Dunes and interuppted by occasional Sand storms. I somehow, happily, landed myself a site inspection job for a month, replacing another colleague. What else, well, 1. am reading a book called 31 songs by Mr.Nick Hornby of 'About a boy' fame among others, and enjoying his regular quirky (how i hate

Andreahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17302990839186249103noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3645965.post-1078187611408493062004-03-02T11:26:00.000+11:002004-03-02T11:35:38.576+11:00

Dunno why, but the word popped into my head. It's what my hair looks like it's been in this morning, and although it doesn't necessarily, or remotely have positive connotations, the word itself has a nice ring. Be a good name for a book. Irrelevant really. but anyway, interesting thing, yesterday I had a job interview with a big Oz architecture company, went well I think, especially since I dont

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It's the title of a book I've just read. You all know them, they are the English intellectual +family picks up, packs up and dissapears over the channel to a hilltop or valley deep cottage with olives/vines/orchards or all of the above and is usually a bumby road away from a wee village with a great pub/restaurant and peppered with crazy locals. But, though they may be a dime a dozen, I love

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So I forgot to tell you all that i got the sack....'you dont have enough experience to go to site and we dont have enough work in the office'..and then a week later they shat themselves and changed their minds, " we need you to go to site for this project we have and we need to hire three new landscape architects for the projects we have' but then they never officially, on paper, sacked me, and

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I just got back from 3 weeks in Australia. My goodness, after 3 years nothing has really changed. There has been a lot of construction, people have ‘moved on’, but other than that it is still the same. I can still get a blood Orange juice from my favorite Café on Swanston st in Melbourne, and get a good sandwich at the red bar. Alice Euphemia still has great clothes, what can I say…its still

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yep, it has been one of those months, actually about 3 or 4 of those months. I don't know what it is but this place is making me into a not nice person at the moment. Grrr, a bitchy nasty agrivated agitated bitch. Lucky for this break or i might explode.....so with luck, inchalah, tomorrow it will start to calm down again and I can be human again. The nice thing is i am getting great emails from

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Go and look it up.

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because he's a funny bugger and it helps to read funny stuff once in a while. The last couple of months have been insane. I am going home in just over a month, and thank goodness for that. Every weekend there has been a birthday or a party or a weekend away, or something. Work is crazy and I just got a new roommate. Tonight we are 'housewarming' which is stressfull enough in itself. Meanwhile,

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...for a while. It has been a completely crazy month, new roomy,work nightmares, hashing,and 6.40 wakeup calls to walk the dog every day....Im drained. Tonight I will go home and just sleep. I can't believe how out of control things are at the moment. Aye Aye AyE, and nothing interesting to say. I will warn you that I will probably stay offline a while, until things calm down.

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worn out, can't wait to head back to Aus for a break...november not so far away. Hear there is a Murray river saving package, sounds like something interesting to get involved in.... lots of potential at home, but not quite ready to stay there for longer term. hmm, dusty as ever, hot as usual, fed up with office politics... so the joys of expat life in the arab world.

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I now get followed every effing day. How do you like that! It's a case of walk the dog and dodge the pervert situation. So far, none have seen which house i live in..... Bloody sickening, do these people have nothing better to do.

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No, I'm not dead, have just been stupidly busy, have no home phone, tv connection, or IT anything.....so I guess it is all a bit messed up. My drains are blocked, the water pump doesn't work, the oven finally connected, still no curtains and the airconditioning is making my eyes itch. Of course everything was going too well wasn't it. So now I have work dramas to boot, the worst personality

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,or better still, how to save it. Albatrosses are my favorite birds. They always have been, there is something about their awkwardness that gives them a beauty, so graceful and yet so clumsy looking. There is also something calm about them. Anyway, the problem is they are becoming a very endangered species, like so many other species in the world. It is rather distressing. A pommy man who sailed

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Photos by a talented refugee.

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Iranian film directors start young! and they make it a family afffair it seems. I had heard of this family before, the Makhmalbaf's but I didn't quite realise that the youngest 'director' was 14. Her name is Hana and she is up for one of the main awards at the Venice Film festival!

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Remember that song 'Moving to the country, gonna eat a lot of peaches' ? It keeps popping into my head, perhaps because I am officially moving to Baraimi, although not to eat peaches. I am moving with my newly adopted dog, Dusty, to a humungous house on the other side of the border. Yep, Im moving to Oman. I will be the person you see catching a Baraimi taxi into Al Ain everyday for the next year

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Madiba is 85 years old. How lucky South Africa has been to have him around. BBC News covers it.

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Loobylu is an absolutely fantastic illustrator, whose illustrations remind me of the children's story books i used to read as a kid. If she was illustrating kids books, and I had kids I would be buying, they are absolutely beautiful...go look see.

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So the last week has been a little crazy but I finally made it. Our first submission for Draft Final Design of the University campus goes in on Monday and we are sending off copies to print today, well on time, and hopefully in relatively ship shape. With all the problems we have had I am amazed we have gotten this far! No server, no staff, software problems, programming prolems, you name it.

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So I let the dog out this morning and he has gone, whether permanently or not I don't know, but they destroyed his 'hang out' place outside, chopped down all the plants, and probably scared the bejeezus out of him. Great. I tell you this whole dog thing is making me so bloody homesick for a NORMAL place to live, which I am in control of, where I get to choose where I live and renting a place

Andreahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17302990839186249103noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3645965.post-1057808345128978652003-07-10T13:39:00.000+10:002003-07-10T13:39:05.110+10:00

So, I found a vet finally, an indian guy who did a house call. The wound has been treated and is looking a lot better. . He seems pretty house trained...while he was recovering from his sedation i had him in the kitchen and he wined to go out to 'potty'. As soon as I let him out on the balcony he went for it. Unfortunately, much as I would love to keep him, I think it will be pretty impossible,

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I sometimes wonder why I call it my country when we treat people like criminals for searching for a better life. Woomera is a dirty word we have all heard for too long. It is a modern day stolen generation. It seems our government has not learnt from its mistakes.

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The black dog is still there, and some people have taken to feeding it. I noticed it has a pretty big wound on its leg, so I'm going to try and find a vet. I hope I can also find an owner for it. It is very calm and sweet, and I am hoping that it is not too sick, looks healthy enough but given that it could have been stray for a while, who knows. I can't believe such a good natured animal could

Andreahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17302990839186249103noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3645965.post-1057572862989678372003-07-07T20:14:00.000+10:002003-07-07T20:14:23.033+10:00

There is a black dog outside my house today, a puppy, kind of cute and ugly at once, and very friendly. Unfortunately it's going to be a couple of years before I can get a dog- not until I stop moving around so much. I will probably adopt a mongrel, or a husky, or a golden retriever. Arctic wolf's are also beautiful, but those big dogs are not for cities, it's too unfair. Huskies should be out in

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Ok, so I still havent found the time to learn how to design my own blog, so Im still having to use the templates provided. Kind of sad really, but I did decide I should get a better design. If you know anything whatsoever about blog design, please let me know. Im kind of sick of having an ugly one.

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I was naughty today, sneakily got a streaming dose of Ozzie music. Ay ayay, Triple J sounds the same when you are 16 as it does 10 years later, and so many ozzie voices, my god, they are such strong accents. It has been such a long time since I heard them. It was nice to hear Oz music again, and nice to hear something slightly other than Euro/Brit mainstream that I have been hearing now for so

Andreahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17302990839186249103noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3645965.post-1057248145310981852003-07-04T02:02:00.000+10:002003-07-04T02:02:25.220+10:00

Margo talks about our eroding of democracy in Oz, and she even published what I had to say again....

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.....one can only hope that I will learn to write, or at the very least to finish my sentences. Something that has been said many times- if you don't have anything good to say, keep your mouth shut! If you have something good to say, say it properly. I need to take that advice. I don't have much to say at the moment except that I'm still grumpy because it is still hot, and will be for at least

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4 MP's are protesting student 'arrests' in Iran I wonder what the results will be..... one can only hope they will.... Meanwhile, Boing Boing has a link to a SMH article about an aussie chick who wants an apology for being strip searched.

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Roswell just got interesting again, for such a long time it was such a bore, so much melodrama and not much action. And now, all of a sudden, there are other aliens, and another royal 4. I've seen so many reruns i don't even know know what the recent Roswell series is? Who cares, at least I get to see new episodes, and it is just starting to get interesting.

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Here are some Photos by Jeremy Koreski to make you cry. They are rather beautiful and give me a strong urge to go back up to the pacific northwest and to BC. I first discovered the beauty of surf photography in 1995 but have yet to start collecting any, or indeed taking any myself. I love how there is such a power and beauty in the images.

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I have noticed it is both a good and bad sign when I start painting in a place. I f I sit down and get started it means one of two things. I am either feeling completely at home and safe, or I am feeling particularly low, stressed and homesick. I started some ink drawings yesterday, and have bought canvas ready to stretch and start painting. Tis nice to work in ink again, I have to do some brush

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Greenswitch has news about a US/EURO agreement to development Fuel Cell technology. It is about time that sort of thing started happening, would you believe they have had the basics for that technology since the 50's, although according to this article way back in the 1800's there was research happening!

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Stasiland is a book reviewed at Salon that I am interested in reading. If the statistics are true, then theoretically there would have been 2 parttime informers at least in my family and maybe even one fulltime one! Interesting. I also rediscovered Davezilla which was blocked by Emirates server for most of the year, so I finally get to laugh again. I especially like the note about the armidillo

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I don't like being ignored, nobody does really do they. So anyway, when I logged on just now I got that 'such and such is online door knock' from yahoo telling me that someone I knew, someone I met about six months ago, was online. So I said hallo, and the rude bastard ignored me.

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*****E! says Hugh Jackman is being considered as a James Bond.......now that I would like to see!

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Addictions to trash are funny things arent they. I don't have any to be too worried about except sweet things and tv shows. I'm ashamed to say I'm getting into too many of them again...lets see, 'Doc' (yeah....i know, achey brakey heart etc), 'The Net', Angel, Providence, Buffy, Dark Angel, Family Law.......yikes. I'm just a sad sap aren't I. Luckily every man and his dog, and every woman and

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There goes the news It is going thattaway, out the door with freedom of speech and freedom of the press and freedom of information.Closing the door on your right to know on Margo's Web diary at the SMH talks about a proposed bill on cross media ownership. As she points out the potential ramifications of this could see a very different Australian media scene, one that I would not be proud of.

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oh yeah, and then there is always some butterpaper to scribble on (especially if you think you are a designer).

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He thinks it's hot He is the guy from Textism, whose blog I like to read. Here he tells us how hot it is....wherever he is. Now you see, I think that the place where I live should have the monopoly on the word hot.

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Everything comes in threes ....or so they say. Well, not in this case. In the last weeks we have had a string of problems or saga's or plain old 'bad news'. Our server has been out of action for a month, and there have been software problems, and today I got news that somebodys site office even burnt down. I know a truck load of people with medical problems which are peaking right now, and

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Download your heart If I relied on downloading my heart for a heart replacement i would have died about, oh 300 times by now. The simplest thing one would think, downloading Netscape and what do you know, my lovely little dial up buggs out and disconnects on me in the middle of it, just a few too many times. The frustrating things is that I asked for the people who organise this stuff for me to

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Dancing in Dubai?? The good news is that you can dance like a nutter in a place called zinc and people will smile at you rather than look at you like a freak. The bad news is the whole town and it's clubs close at 3, right when it starts to warm up. My feet are blistered, my head is tired but it was absolutely necessary. Had a brunch in a place called the lime tree cafe like a normal human being

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It has been a crazy week, only the middle of it and I am ready for the weekend. Actually, the whole day I have been feeling like crawling under a bed and hiding away for a few days. I haven't had time to scratch my butt, let alone write something decent on this blog. So lunchtime today I went perusing and found this, an article about Art and Democracy in Panama in Metropolis mag. It has been a

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Vin Diesel Rocks! I remember reading in Salon last year about this Vin Diesel character when his movie XXX came out. For Salon to be raving about the guy must mean something I thought. So anyway, I saw XXX and last night I saw 'A man apart', his latest flick. And I enjoyed it, but what I realised is, is that his persona seems like it will always be bigger than his character. It's hard to beat

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I don't believe it, it's almost Tri-nations time again and I don't have a gang of thieves to populate the irish pubs when the games are on, to be honest I doubt there is a gang of thieves in this entire town to watch the games with. Ill have to make do with this if I have to, judging from the draw I'm going to have to, it is in the middle of my work day week isn't it!!

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Anne Lamott asks who you are at Salon, so Who are you?

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Our yearning for a voice above politics is an SMH web diary entry by Margo. It talks about among other things, a new Governor General.

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What's up with our Constitution????? Read here the chapters and headings of the constitution. Note these bits: *PART 1: There are three sections on the Governor general alone!! As that northerner with a fish'n'chip shop once said 'Please Explain'- OK, I have to admit I haven't read the sections but still........, *PART 5: Chapter VII note 3. Yes it has been repealed, but the very fact that

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The Rich Boys club' has convened in Evian and the protestors are making it very clear how unhappy they are. What ever happened to peaceful protest? But then I can equally ask....does it achieve anything. I hope so.... Poor old Geneva got a bashing yesterday, beautiful clean swiss city. It's home to a bezillion giant bad boy corporations but it's also at least a second home to just about every

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US Masters of Hypocrisy. The line goes a little something like this. Um, Iraq, dudes, you gotta get rid of your nukes and dirty weapons, Iran, yeah, guys you gotta do the same, ah, but see, we US of A'ers...we get to build our own mini nukes see,....yep, lifes tough. The world aint fair you know.

Andreahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17302990839186249103noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3645965.post-951486082003-06-01T20:13:00.000+10:002003-06-01T20:13:29.390+10:00

**From the man himself: Geldof does Ethiopia

Andreahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17302990839186249103noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3645965.post-951484032003-06-01T19:59:00.000+10:002003-06-03T01:55:24.000+10:00

Remember Bob Geldoff?He's still going strong, apparently swearing his head off as he goes, but still fighting the good fight. Good on him.

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