In Soviet Russia, This Guy Looks Like You

The Russian visa people had told me that I could come in any time on Tuesday to collect my visa. Being one of those smug British passport holders and being therefore unaccustomed to applying for visas, and being unfamiliar with Russian bureaucracy, I decided to trust them, and merrily arrived at the...

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Capslock Springtime and the Great Beroubling

Last weekend was my birthday! And we ate cake. And cookies and lemon squares and malva pudding and chocolate mousse cake and hummus and muffins. ...

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Yeomen, Raptors, and a Guy in a Carrot Suit

Right, Yeomen. That thing with the costumes and the singing! And the guy in a carrot suit! And which happened so long ago that I've already caught up on work and sleep!   To be honest, I'm still impressed that I managed to survive it at all, given that I arrived back from Bali, after several...

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Truth be Told, I'd Settle for a Life Less Frightening

Do you want to know why I'm sad today? (Source) Here's why I'm sad today. This is the sort of stuff I find myself reading on a daily basis. Keith O'Brien: we cannot afford to indulge this madness Fired for using birth control? It could be possible in Arizona Kansas to Pregnant Women: "A Little...

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Anti-Anti-Tourism and Homeward Bound

My long-overdue final Bali post! In my defence, I've been busy. Some of the time even doing actual work, and not wasting time on the internet. Or something. Anyway, Bali. Pay no attention to the lazy blogger behind the curtain....

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Shock and Awww

I said the wedding deserved a blog post all to itself, but now that I get to it, I realise that I don't know what to say. It was just... lovely. Wedding yay!...

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Crispy Blog Post of Miracle

I'm back home! (Not home home. Just home.) And I'm still blogging Bali, but slowly, because I have work to catch up on, and it's show week, which is something else to be blogging about once I finally catch up here. But I'm taking deep, calming breaths, and drinking lots of tea, and I'll be fine and...

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