January 2012
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December 2011
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September 2011
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May 2011
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April 2011
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February 2011
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March 2010
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February 2010
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Smile
Thirty seven sold items of clothing on EBay and two intensive Post Office trips later, I returned home to see the following piece of feedback on my profile:
“Delighted with cardi, speedy delivery!”
Now, you might think that this is atypical of EBay feedback, and you might be wondering why I am mentioning it at all. But there is something about the word ‘delighted’ in...
Micmacs Film Review
For Micmacs (international title: Micmacs à tire-larigot), Jeunet has consulted his best recipes well – quirky characters that dance the line between fantasy and documentary, beautiful cinematography that owes as much to its French locations as it does to the dusty hues and muted colour filters. A rollercoaster narrative with a plot that is as equally important as its protagonists, allowing them...
November 2009
1 post
Life Strategising
This week my department at work was audited. This involved someone from our central department coming and assessing how effective my business unit is. In the meeting to illustrate the audit findings the auditor told me (and my boss, and my boss’s boss) that one of his findings, or concerns, was that we didn’t have a strategy. He said that we needed a strategy to keep focussed, to...
October 2009
1 post
September 2009
2 posts
Test post 2; thoughts before bed
The wall is large, and blank. I wonder how much it measures, in arms and lengths and metres. I wonder what has been hung on it before, who has leaned against it… whose curious ears have pressed against its cool surface, straining to make out voices and words. I wonder if any animals have ever swished their tail along the skirting board, or if heights have been crayoned into the door frame;...
test
testing blackberry posting
August 2009
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July 2009
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May 2009
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April 2009
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November 2008
2 posts
Blackbird
Blackbird singing in the dead of night Take these sunken eyes and learn to see All your life You were only waiting for this moment to be free
-The Beatles