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Doing some Very Important Paperwork
My to-do list tells me that I’ve got quite a bit of paperwork and computer stuff to do today, because tomorrow is the last day that anything—banks, post offices, libraries, printers—will be open. I...
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Someone gave me a box of chocolates…
A friend gave me a box of Guylian chocolate seashells yesterday. They’re sitting on top of three bags of ice in the cooler. I’ve been trying to do some painting, but I keep putting the brush down,...
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holed up and playing with paint
Filed under: aboard the M/V sonofagun, paints and pens, stuff i've made
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Surrounded by media whores…
Monday, 25 February, 2013: Dude and Kris pose together on the back deck of our boat for a photograph taken by Daniel Hartley-Allen, to illustrate a full page interview that was conducted and written...
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Five beasts a week…
“There is a kind of lazy pleasure in useless and out-of-the-way erudition.” —Jorge Luis Borges, from The Book of Imaginary Beings Kris is posting photos on his blog of each and every one of the...
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no internet :(
My mobile broadband dongle up and died on me some time ago…and I wasted a few days trying to get it fixed, looking for a new battery, and so on. Nothing has worked, so I’ll have to buy a new one...
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Carpe diem…
My four day weekends have been reinstated, so there will be a little bit more crafting and other sorts of making posts on my blog, again. Yippee! I really missed my half-week of personal space. I got...
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Throwing stones
Kris has been marbling all day. The clotheslines crisscrossing our deck are hung with drying pieces of rainbow. The prints are a long way from perfect, and professional marblers would reject most of...
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shooting sea birds
Some terns, hunting slivers of silver fish in the rough waters of the harbour. They wheeled for hours, diving close by my window in the great gusting winds of a tropical depression. Grey, grey day,...
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Happiness is an unmade bed
On my days off, our pussycat, Dude, crawls into bed as soon as Kris gets up…4:30 a.m. on work days. Dude likes to sleep on Kris’ pillow (like many single pets, he thinks he’s human) beside me. When I...
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dragonfly
The dragonfly at rest on the doorbell— too weak to ring and glad of it, but well mannered and cautious, thinking it best to observe us quietly before flying in, and who knows if he will find the way...
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We’ve moved house! (boat)
Okay, so it’s not quite the huge job that moving a house on land would be, but still, this is a big change for us! From being moored right in front of the yacht club that we use as our “landbase”—with...
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Some pics (but no birds)
Last night the mesh door of the trap was up; the following morning the mesh door had dropped…i.e. someone was inside the trap. We scooted over to have a look, but it was a very small crocodile,...
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Don’t let go of that thread…
The Way It Is There’s a thread you follow. It goes among things that change. But it doesn’t change. People wonder about what you are pursuing. You have to explain about the thread. But it is hard for...
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Working with a thief
That which stands in the way IS the way. —Marcus Aurelius After my manager returned from her 6 weeks of annual leave, one of the other staff members at work resigned, and so I am still working 6 days...
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Lost & found…& found again.
My prodigal dinghy was found today, intact and outboard running. I even got a bonus: there was a huge red fuel tank in it that wasn’t there before…ha ha ha. Three policemen in plainclothes came to see...
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A smack of jellyfish
As promised, here’s the finished redwork bird design from yesterday, done up as a mock kitchen journal cover using the font Asterism, and a woven fabric texture from Picmonkey, to sort of give me an...
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Pack-down
And the night shall be filled with music, And the cares, that infest the day, Shall fold their tents, like the Arabs, And as silently steal away —Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, excerpt from The Day Is...
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many moons
photo taken in Maun, Northwest Botswana, by Philip Milne Kris wrote last night from Maun, Botswana…it took him a while to get there from Victoria Falls in Zimbabwe because he had to make a detour...
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Dude
I made a rather happy painting for a journal today…did this in the morning, and in the hours after lunch, before I went to visit a neighbour on her boat. I’m glad I got it all finished before I went, I...
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