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25 Jun 2011

It was nearly a near death experience.

A few weeks ago Tonia was browsing the intranet at work, which has a section that’s a sort of Craig’s List for Council employees. You can find all sorts there. One listing in particular caught her eye; a bunch of teak mid-century dining room furniture, listed for FREE. Seems a guy was clearing out his…

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18 Jun 2011

I don’t know where I’m going until I get there.

I did not set out to take a long hiatus from the podcast, or the blog for that matter. It just sort of happened. The way you sort of forget to call your parents, and life gets busy, and then one day you realize it’s been three months since you talked. And it’s June. I’m…

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21 Mar 2011

The first step is admitting you have a problem.

Two years ago, or maybe a little more, I was shopping in London with my friend, Katie, and we spotted a small project bag with matching needle case at Socktopus. The bag was big enough to carry a sock project, and was hand made from fabric with tiny sheep all over it, and I thought…

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03 Mar 2011

It’s a brown world, mostly.

First, if you’ve been having trouble downloading some episodes of the podcast, you will be pleased to know that the issues have now been resolved. The problem only affected episodes from a year or so, and earlier, so if you’re up to date with your listening, you probably won’t have noticed anything. My apologies for…

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30 Jan 2011

On a winter’s day.

We spent the day walking on Marros Mountain. Not the whole day. We were only out for about two and a half hours, but the sun was low in the sky when we returned, so it feels like we were at it all day. Our mission today was a long walk, and we accomplished that,…

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