January 2011
16 posts
Height meme? ok, sure
Been 6’ since I was 14 years old.
Dad used to call me “a long streak of pelican shit”, which is a very Australian way of expressing love, I’m told.
“Is there a government that you would prefer to be in charge of this?”
– The Top 10 Things We Can’t Believe [Google’s outgoing CEO] Eric Schmidt Ever Said
“As the water poured in [to Toowoomba] the CBD was reduced to a strange kind of...”
– Gold Coast Bulletin newspaper
Queensland, you are still beautiful
It does feel strange that, despite the devastation, heartache and mess from the floods, an hour south I am relaxing with my mansqueeze being treated to blue skies & warm breezes.
Our little holiday to the Gold Coast (my first time up here) has been great. Right now I have coffee, his iPad and a balcony with a view across the broadwater.
Hoping our tourist dollars help in some way, and that...
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20 Untranslatable Words from Around the World →
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1. Toska
Russian – Vladmir Nabokov describes it best: “No single word in English renders all the shades of toska. At its deepest and most painful, it is a sensation of great spiritual anguish, often without any specific cause. At less morbid levels it is a dull ache of the soul, a longing with nothing to long for, a sick pining, a vague...
It's Friday, but I'm not pumped for the weekend
House moving awaits. Ugh.
(But living-with-mansqueeze also awaits. Anti-ugh!)
December 2010
18 posts
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