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Eeeeeeeee

Posted in adventures, halden, houses, lovie, norway on Wednesday, November 11, 2009 | 6 Comments »

We bought a house! It is very cute. And that yellow ’sold’ sign? It doesn’t mean someone else snapped it up before we got our act together. That’s us. We did it.
It was nerve-wracking. We made the offer yesterday morning, then had to wait twenty-four hours to see if anyone would up the offer, and [...]

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Berlin

Posted in adventures, birthdays, family, germany on Tuesday, September 29, 2009 | 4 Comments »

This pretty much sums up our weekend. Oh, and this.

There was a bit of this

and some more of this

and then we moved onto the green stuff.

Michael’s parents joined in for pizza, icecream, and a float down the river in the sun.

We found a park bench that makes tall people small.

And then, sadly, we said goodbye [...]

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Days and Years

Posted in adventures, birthdays, halden, norway, ocean, paragliding, phd on Tuesday, June 9, 2009 | 8 Comments »

It will never be today again. Never. He would not, in all his life, make another discovery more shattering.
Randolph Stow, The Merry-go-round in the Sea
In the last few hours of being 29, the loss of my twenties felt like some kind of a death. When you are in your twenties you believe you will be [...]

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Many wonderful things

Posted in Australia, adventures, art, austria, disasters, family, lovie, paragliding, seasons, trees on Wednesday, May 13, 2009 | 4 Comments »

I am in Austria. Very close to Switzerland. If you climb a mountain – or, with much less effort, take a chairlift – you can see into a lake that touches Austria, Germany, Switzerland. I am surrounded by improbable lushness: meadows peppered with dandelions, mountains swathed in patterned cloaks of dark and bright green, the [...]

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Larger than life

Posted in America, adventures, lovie on Wednesday, April 15, 2009 | 1 Comment »

I’m loving the internet right now. I’m in Singapore airport, exploiting the free wireless. After twelve hours on a plane, preceded by two days of dazed wandering around London, preceded by seven hours on a plane, it’s quite remarkable to be so connected. In the past couple of hours, I’ve had an email conversation with [...]

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Road trip

Posted in America, adventures on Wednesday, April 8, 2009 | 3 Comments »

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Holiday…

Posted in America, adventures on Sunday, April 5, 2009 | 2 Comments »

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Progress report

Posted in America, Australia, adventures, halden, happy, phd, snow on Sunday, March 8, 2009 | 8 Comments »

Photos by Michael.
Well, I can declare the two quiet weeks at my desk a success. While none of the chapters I was working on is quite done, Murray is 95% done, Webb is 50% done, and theory chapter is 75% done. And I have clear plans for the remaining sections. By the end of today, [...]

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An eventful journey

Posted in adventures, almost disaster, france, ocean, rain, snow, transit on Sunday, December 28, 2008 | 5 Comments »

Today we explored a windy Monaco. (I mean windy as in lots of wind – but I guess the streets are windy as in curvy too.) There are extremely posh Christmas decorations. The buildings are a strange mix of extravagant and tumble-down. A miniature apartment will cost you two million euros.

There are steps and elevators [...]

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Walled Cities

Posted in England, adventures, books, family, friends, leeds, lovie, medieval, transit, york on Wednesday, December 10, 2008 | 5 Comments »

I finished reading the most beautiful novel the other day. Gatty’s Tale, by Kevin Crossley-Holland. I first realised what a lovely writer he was when I read his translations of Norse Myths, and I vowed to get hold of his King Arthur trilogy. I did, and have read the first one so far, and loved [...]

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