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Running Doula has ‘horizontal’ catchup with Aussie blogger

By 6000 | 6000 | May 11, 2012

The mother of all Freudian slips ensues as Running Doula “catches up” with old friend and Saffa/Aussie blogger Delboy in Melbourne. Always good to see someone managing to deal with apparent food-poisoning long enough to have fun with her friends. Please note Melinda’s (almost) immediate response to her error: “VERTICAL!! I meant vertical!”. Of course you did, love.

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One Good Deed…

By 6000 | 6000 | April 12, 2012

…deserves 39 more. Or is that one good turn? Whatever. I like this idea from PamieJane to celebrate her 40th birthday and I’d encourage others to join in and do their bit as I will on Saturday. What I want to do is 40 random acts of kindness (or good deeds).  Now I know for a [...]

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Brian is back again, but he’s still not a Real Photographer

By 6000 | 6000 | March 30, 2012

I was delighted to note that Brian Micklethwait, my favourite UK blogger, had decided to end another of his self-imposed hiatuses (hiatii?) and start up his regular blogging again. And so far this week, we’ve had a couple of wonderful photos [here and here] of Anish Kapoor’s Olympic sculpture, a Shard update from the 1950s and a [...]

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First week nerves

By 6000 | 6000 | January 21, 2012

The first week back at school has gone swimmingly for the boy. But then he finds himself in familiar surroundings surrounded by familiar people. Monday was Scoop’s first day at “big school”. Before and even during arrival at school, she was excited and upbeat. I captured this as she lined up for the first time, [...]

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Winning?

By 6000 | 6000 | November 1, 2011

This is a sticky post. There are other posts below this, but they are less sticky and have already become unstuck. Scroll down to see the pile of other posts which have slipped further down this page. Yes, it’s that time of year again when I ask for your assistance in promoting my blog in [...]

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