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Birthday thoughts for Grandma

Posted in babbies, birthdays, family, seasons on Wednesday, November 4, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

It’s snowing outside. It started this afternoon, so faintly I didn’t notice at first. But the babbies didn’t like it, it was far too cold, so I took them all in again. Now, under the streetlights, the night is broken by swirling white.
It’s my Grandma’s 80th birthday tomorrow, which is already today in Australia. Happy [...]

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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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It’s my time

Posted in birthdays, music, youtube on Sunday, June 7, 2009 | 4 Comments »

Thanks for the birthday wishes, folks! Michael has devised a play-list for my birthday, which pretty much consists of this stunning UK Eurovision number, plus ‘Can you feel the love tonight‘ from the Lion King. He tells me he won’t stop playing ‘My Time’ on repeat until I put it on my blog and inflict [...]

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It’s only a number

Posted in birthdays on Saturday, June 6, 2009 | 10 Comments »

Michael is giving me a running commentary. Three hours and forty minutes to go, he says. He says people in their thirties are very sensible and don’t laugh at rude jokes or say silly phrases or bounce up and down for no reason. He says couples in their thirties only kiss twice a day: one [...]

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Happy birthday

Posted in America, birthdays, lovie on Sunday, April 26, 2009 | 7 Comments »

to my lovely man, who takes me soaring above skylines

where we watch the earth glow, glitter and fade.

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Rare Sunshine

Posted in birthdays, family, friends, leeds, phd, writing on Thursday, November 6, 2008 | 4 Comments »

It’s mostly been low clouds and rain you can walk in.
Meeting went well today. They liked my introduction. We went through it together, in detail, and they had lots of minor suggestions to make it better. But they are small things. Stylistic things. (I need to keep an eye on the ends of some paragraphs [...]

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More thoughts on 29

Posted in birthdays, family, yum on Sunday, June 8, 2008 | 5 Comments »

(And another gratuitous cake photo.)
I was going to write a long reflective post last night, but found I was completely exhausted, and went to sleep instead. So.
1. Birthday conversations.
M (on skype): happy birthday!me: Thanks! My housemate made me a cake.M: I made you a cake too.me: oh did you? What kind is it?M: um, it’s [...]

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29

Posted in birthdays, yum on Saturday, June 7, 2008 | 3 Comments »

And the best cake ever (thanks Heather!).

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Another birthday

Posted in birthdays, lovie, paragliding on Friday, April 25, 2008 | 1 Comment »

Another chance for gratuitous paragliding photos.
And about this much
love winging its way across the North Sea
right about now.

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