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o frabjous day! books, recipes & other things

  • Because it’s raining

    – 15 Things Worth Knowing About Coffee – This is an interesting and disturbing doco about Wikileaks. – I want to see “The War You Don’t See” by John Pilger. – xkcd on Wikileaks. – Uncomfortable Moments with Putin is terribly funny. – I had listened to Dan Carlin talk about Gaius Marius on his…

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  • Spider

    It’s going to take me a while to get used to combination of manual focussing and the correct settings for this new lens – opening it up too wide makes the focal point too small, but it was very overcast today. I probably should have used the flash.

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  • Conversational misunderstandings

    Law offices: Me: [on the phone to someone three offices away waffling on about my communal farm idea] – “Waffle, waffle, waffle, basically a commune.” Workmate: [frantic rustling and clunking] – “God, I just had to pick up the phone, I had you on speaker.” Me: “Ahhh – was that little panic attack because I…

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  • Lens

    My new lens arrived as an early birthday present – the Nikkor 105mm f/2.8G VR Micro. And it is gorgeous. Almost completely silent, heavy as all hell, and I can’t wait to get out into the garden during daylight and really test it properly. You can check out some of the shots people take with…

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  • Links & things

    – I love this site of literary tattoos – some of my favourites are Alice in Wonderland inspired (including a Jabberwocky quote), and this Iliad quote. – Be still my heart. The Beatles Complete on Ukulele. A new song every week, to be finished in July 2012. Two of my favourite obsessions combined. – Typography…

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  • Reverb 10 – 7 & 10

    December 7 – Community. Where have you discovered community, online or otherwise, in 2010? What community would you like to join, create or more deeply connect with in 2011? The desire for community is a consistent theme in my life – it exists somewhat uneasily with my other desire to be a hermit. The husband…

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  • Reverb 10 – 5 & 6

    December 5 – Let Go. What (or whom) did you let go of this year? Why? I think I’ll just quote a Leunig cartoon, and a song we sing at choir, in response to this.  “Let it go, let it out.  Let it all unravel.  Let it free, and it can be a path on…

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  • Reverb 10 – Days 1 to 4

    I signed up to get daily prompts during December from Reverb 10 (an “online initiative to reflect on your year and manifest what’s next”), as I thought it might be an opportunity to write a bit more, despite the words “manifest” and “reverberate” making me wince a little. But I’m not that good at actually…

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  • Conversations

    After watching the husband crunch across the driveway in bare feet. “Ah – good morning. I may have stolen your thongs.” “You may have?” “Well, yes. You know how, um, the potential of every action creates, um, another potential… universe?” “Isn’t it ‘every action has an equal and opposite reaction’?” “Well, yes, but that’s not…

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  • Stars

    Some stuff I’ve come across while browsing online for Christmas present ideas. My problem is that I keep discovering stuff that I would like, and not necessarily things for the people that I’m shopping for: – For photographers, mugs that look exactly like Canon and Nikon lenses. And the Nikon one zooms. Too cool. –…

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