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October 22, 2011
thirty-eight, thirty-nine...
So far 38 is pretty bloody awesome. And before I’m thirty-nine I plan to: toast the All Black’s as they hold aloft the Web Ellis Trophy [...]
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| 10 Bantering Wittily
January 21, 2011
wishful: part the second...
Image: offices of Invensys Rail who manage the comms and tech for most of the UK Rail Network. They have an ACTUAL TRAIN in their Grosvenor Square offices. [...]
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| 7 Bantering Wittily
January 18, 2011
wishful*...
Today I just want to curl up in an overstuffed chair next to a blazing wood fire, my feet in a pool of winter sunshine, and [...]
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| 13 Bantering Wittily
January 17, 2011
a visit to the north & a guest post...
We spent the weekend here. It was fabulously relaxing and involved the discovery of Barter Books; an enormous second hand book shop in the old railways station [...]
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| 9 Bantering Wittily
September 27, 2010
movement...
And then all of a sudden, after weeks of uncertainty and frustration and General Crapness: movement, decisions, clarity. FINALLY. The last six weeks of job search [...]
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| 19 Bantering Wittily
April 27, 2010
getting messy and strong and lighting it on fire...
When I try to imagine the contents of my brain, all I can see right now is a Jackson Pollock painting. Big and colourful and alive. [...]
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| 5 Bantering Wittily
April 10, 2010
nine lessons about cash, worth, champagne and ma...
Fifteen years ago I graduated with student loans of more than $50,000, a bank overdraft and a Bachelor of Arts. My first job was at the Department [...]
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| 19 Bantering Wittily
January 26, 2010
my longest love affair...
I spent Sunday morning drinking pink champagne with Leonie and a sophisticated group of kiwi women at a spa for bubbles, nibbles and general pampering. And [...]
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| 18 Bantering Wittily
October 22, 2009
hopeful place...
I wonder how the idea for The Eden Project was formed? Perhaps sitting by the sea in a lovely Cornish pub, and imagining a greenhouse that [...]
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| 5 Bantering Wittily
September 12, 2009
the owl and the lioness...
Four years ago we spent a life changing week in the Picos mountains. I remember the first time I met Alice, in that room where over [...]
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| 4 Bantering Wittily
August 21, 2009
the last of the international playboys...
So Rex arrived and was not remotely dead. And yay, a not dead cat is way awesomer than the alternative. Opening his cage was like a [...]
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| 14 Bantering WittilyAugust 20, 2009
rex the alphacat arrives tomorrow...
‘We picked up Rex yesterday as planned and completed his MAF export formalities. This morning he flew to Auckland, from there onto Sydney and London (via [...]
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| 7 Bantering Wittily
