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The thrill is gone 7 May 2010 | 09:19 am
You know when you embark on a little, peculiar challenge to amuse yourself and maybe stem the haemorrhage of your ‘savings’ account while deciding to share the mundane and reputation-diminishing intri...
The final day, being cured and the fear of Australia 1 May 2010 | 08:19 am
Today is the final day. Tomorrow I will cast off the shackles of this detox. Tomorrow I will be free. Tomorrow, I can shop. But I don’t think I will. In fact, I’m a little sad to be ending my miniat...
Sweet Lord, mamma need a new pair of shoes 21 Apr 2010 | 03:41 am
Alright. It’s T-minus-I don’t know, a week or something. But I tell you something, mamma need a new pair of shoes. I do. I’m ‘mamma’. What I have is too ratty, too wintery, too summery, too high-hee...
Was Lapland cheating? 15 Apr 2010 | 05:19 am
Forgive my silence, dear readers, but for the first part of April I have been holed up in a small town in Finnish Lapland visiting my partner’s family. As you do. With limited internet access, I cou...
I have been reduced to manual labour 31 Mar 2010 | 09:11 am
So, this is what has become of me. Sewing. Pushed to the limit of how long I can go without having anything new to wear I have been reduced to making it myself. And – my sewing skills being limited, ...
The law of returns 29 Mar 2010 | 12:46 am
I had been fearing the day. Dreading it with the same anxiety that I have traditionally reserved for the return of results from exams for which I strategically decided to study only two thirds of the ...
Gareth thinks I should have learned something by now 24 Mar 2010 | 09:23 am
Gareth, a colleague of mine who provides exceptional berry supplies in the mid-afternoon, thinks I should have learned something by now. I haven’t though. Indeed, just as I wrote these first few sent...
This is a cruel experiment: The story of the women’s collective and their alpacas 22 Mar 2010 | 09:06 am
The very setting of this anecdote is going to mark me as a wanker. I know that, and I’m willing to take the fall in the interests of accurate reportage. It was at my local farmers market last weekend...
This is a cruel experiment: The story of the women’s collective and their alpacas 22 Mar 2010 | 05:06 am
The very setting of this anecdote is going to mark me as a wanker. I know that, and I’m willing to take the fall in the interests of accurate reportage. It was at my local farmers market last weekend ...
Transference and the case against tennis racquets 18 Mar 2010 | 07:10 pm
I kinda need to buy something. Anything. It’s just over two weeks in and, to be honest, I’m struggling. I was playing tennis for the first time in about five years the weekend before last with a tenn...
