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It's so weird being on holiday doing nothing. ( except documenting it incessantly on facebook and LJ)
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I had a close encounter with a fox today. It was wary but watched he for a good 15 seconds before nestling in some shrubs to hide.
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Four funerals and a wedding
It has just Struck me that 2008 had 4 funerals and one wedding.
Funeral 1 - co-workers's husband (suicide)
Funeral 2 - Libby Caldwell my godmother
Funeral 3 - Gilly Broiwski, potter
Wedding - Richard and Sam's Hindu event
Funeral 4 - Jack, our beloved guinea pig.
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Nothing to be frightened of
Recounted in this marvellous book is this observation by Flaubert...
'Once you have kissed a corpse on the forehead there always remains something on your lips, a distant bitterness, an aftertaste of the void that nothing will efface.' p 96
So incredibly true.
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Arunamalin's house
Such a peaceful retreat Arunamalin and Andrew have created here. The gardens have been formed by the love and efforts of Arunamalin.
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Day 1
Lovely day enjoying the gentrified countrified areas around Maldon. Warm conversation and food. Late to bed. So incredibly quiet here.
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So far today- taxi, plane, bus, train, car. It reads like the Pertwee years minus the helicopter and hovercraft. Oh and the flying whomobile.
Well, at least I've offset the carbon from the flight. Can I do it for the other modes of transport?
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Melbourne
The V-line announcers's canned voice is both over articulated and overly concerned for either our safety or for procedur. The stern android announces, 'Please DO NOT join this train.' perhaps she does not want humans to be disturbed by discarded copies of The Age or crumpled approximations-of-coffee cups?
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Nothing to be Frightened of
This book by my favourite author, Julian Barnes, does not disappoint. 'Nothing to be Frightened of' is a series of seemingly unstructured but I suspect highly so, musings/essays about God, death and the afterlife. It voyages into the autobiographical but with the ubiquitous forays into philosophy and french writers. (His area of special interest ( Read more... )
