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78 days ago
i've decided that this blog has run it's course. it was set up originally to celebrate ben's entrance and contribution to our family. since then it has been beaten into new shapes and been redressed in some of the most frightening outfits this side of the salvation army shop. so, this is the last post. if you have visited this site more than twice, thank you. if this is your first time, then i'm sure you'll be more specific next time you google something. we may well continue somewhere else.
101 days ago
having not posted for two months and a day i expect myself to write something blinding. however too many things have happen recently to even consider summarising them or making light of one or two quirky moments (while finding some obscure to connection to life in nepal as is oft the case). while in new zealand i was extremely happy to have taken some time to catch up with friends from my past. friends for secondary school and even primary who i hadn't caught up with for ten, fifteen or even twenty years. don't get me started on what it's like being on of those people with friends from twenty years ago. something deep inside was delighted to see those faces and hear the jokes and pick it all up where we all left off as if the nineties and noughties were never there. we dunk beer, we ate pudding we teased, in their absence, those nerds we loved to beat, and so it went on. i don't put enough into my relationships to necessarily be able to rekindle old friendships. but, i feel so ...
162 days ago
we went to estonia once. we spent about five days there which wasn't enough. it was a lovely, lovely holiday. for starters we arrived by ship. it could have been an awful experience but it wasn't. having arrived in port we took a taxi to a hotel we thought would be comfortable and suitable. it was neither. in fact the guest house we spent the remaining four or five nights in wasn't particularly comfortable or suitable either but is was hillarious. the senior russian lady who ran the owned and ran the place was nothing short of alzheimic. she provided these wonderful cooked breakfasts for us which we enjoyed while watching the first of the u.s. invasions on afghanistan on tv. if that wasn't violent enough, our hostess' accusations that i had broken the shower were but not as fierce as her yelling sessions at the other guest for bringing ladies back after midnight. what we saw of estonia was incredible. incomparable to any other country we have visited. apart from finding ...
162 days ago
it's easy to sit on the sidelines and judge and scream and have better ideas and comforting thoughts and a healing plan for ones neighbour from a distance but when shit is hitting the fan much closer to home i am learning it's best to put the high falooting words out the window and allow a personal, raw touch to takeover.
180 days ago
today there was the most minging stench in the air all around ras al khaimah. really, it was putrid. as frustrating as it was vile was the fact it was very difficult to pinpoint exactly what it was. it was definitely of fish origin. but why and how was it so powerful? you can't imagine the damage the wafting force was causing. it was like twelve right whales beached themselves just down the road, farted themselves to oblivion after a krillfest like never before then passed away. all in 50 degree heat, mind. we remain well. just 23 days left for us in this country. we fly to new zealand for six weeks before heading to malaysia early august. regretably we won't have enough time to do a third of the things we would like to do. we only hope we can see our friends at least for a brunch or something. i have wickedly underestimated how much we will miss our lives here. much of our married life has been spent here and this is the home of our two amazing ...
