March 16, 2010

hinc lucem et pocula sacra*...

In the early hours of tomorrow morning, in a random office in a New Zealand university, I will be conferred with a Post-Graduate Diploma in Business. [...]

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March 11, 2010

friday five: dreaming of escapes after eleventy ...

Dunton Hot Springs, in the San Juan Mountains of the Colorado Rockies is a beautifully restored ghost town. It has a spa. And a waterfall. And [...]

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February 14, 2010

vodka cocktails, sunsets and forgiveness...

From my sick bed last week, I noodled around travel sites fervidly (anywhere with sun sweet christ!) and continually returned to familiar images of an idyllic [...]

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January 18, 2010

bitchin' blogging babes...

Once upon a time, in a land not very far away, a 100-year-old stone cottage waited patiently, covered in fresh snow. On a random Friday evening [...]

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January 4, 2010

first week back at work and i'm in a '...

‘I am sending youpostcards from a placewhere I am not. We’re not tourists, we’re travelers a tourist is someone who thinks about going home the moment [...]

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December 29, 2009

the restaurant at the end of the universe...

I can’t remember an afternoon that involved an uninterrupted hour of reading, a nap, a bubble bath, ‘afternoon delight’ and a movie. All before a five-course [...]

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December 24, 2009

christmas travelly-trip...

Mum and me, Christmas 1974 Gatwick Airport is like a time warp to the less salubrious parts of the Soviet Union. Hardly festive, but it does [...]

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November 16, 2009

a consitutional...

On Saturday morning, fortified with buttery croissants, rich coffee and a nights rest free of the distant rumble of the District tube line, we strolled from [...]

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November 13, 2009

friday five: wherein i take my new negligée and...

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October 20, 2009

perspective...

A week or so ago, my brain shut down on me. I had kind of been expecting it, after many nights of lying awake from 2 [...]

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October 19, 2009

birthday musings on the importance of fishes, bi...

Science Guy completely outdid all previous birthday presents in the history of the world, and bought me this bike. It’s a Pashley Princess Sovereign painted Buckingham [...]

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October 15, 2009

birthday week escape in T-17hours...

‘Mousehole is the best village. I want to live here cosy and cheaply with something dumb and lovely of my own choice, with a woman who [...]

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