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August 11, 2009
kryptonite...
I can’t remember the moment exactly, but I do remember the sense of something changing in my brain that weekend. Having a few days to oneself [...]
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August 4, 2009
the wrong trousers...
Lubna Hussein is a Sudanese journalist. At her court hearing in Khartoum today, she is charged with committing an ‘indecent act which violates public morality or [...]
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July 28, 2009
perspective...
Loveyoulongtime readers will know of my journey from London back to New Zealand. And back again. And that I project managed the renovation of my little [...]
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July 7, 2009
7/7...
I was in a camping ground, a few miles outside of Pamplona, hungover, knackered, unable to sleep in the sultry afternoon heat of the cabin. In [...]
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July 1, 2009
mantra for july (and forever)...
‘Life is NOT a journey to the grave with the goal of arriving safely in a prettily preserved body, but rather, to skid in sideways in [...]
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June 16, 2009
la montana magica...
Two years ago this week, I took my backpack to the Picos Mountains in Spain for a week of brain and body stretching. Our little group [...]
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June 7, 2009
d day...
My Grandad Harry was a paratrooper. 65 years ago he landed at Normandy a few days after the first invasion and was part of the long [...]
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May 26, 2009
not big or clever...
So North Korea is officially the New Big Thing Designed To Scare The Holy Living Shit Out Of You. Apparently it has tested either: a ballistic [...]
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May 3, 2009
630 bottles of sherry for a voice...
Bravo Ministry of Culture! It only took 400 years, but Carol Ann Duffy is Britain’s first woman poet laureate. The origins of the laureateship are somewhat [...]
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March 27, 2009
friday five: scenes from antarctica (switch off ...
Photos from the Big Picture and information about Earth hour here.
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February 10, 2009
bush fires...
The fires are still burning in South Australia. They occurred during a record breaking heatwave, with temperatures well above 38°. The fires have proved to be [...]
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January 22, 2009
captured...
Pakistani Christian children hold portraits of President Obama during a prayers ceremony for global peace in Islamabad, Pakistan on Tuesday, January 20th 2009. The Boston Globe [...]

















