I come from a family with a long line of green thumbs. My thumbs are more of the dead variety. Palm trees can survive in deserts, but not in my garden. My excuse is that I was travelling a lot, and didn’t have time to do mundane things like tend to plants. But now I…
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Oct
I am a little ashamed that I’d been two New York, USA, twice since my previous trip to York, WA. It had been ten years between trips to York, WA. It’ll be a lot less time until my next visit, partly because of some wonderful friends, and partly because of this bookshop. Kitty Kelley, Julie…
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Oct
York has views from Mount Brown … … and an historic Town Hall … … but there was something simple, joyful and innocent about the flying fox near the river. The more I travel, the less I want to see the tourist sites and the more I want to have fun with friends and the…
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Sep
I went op-shopping this weekend and bought this for two dollars: The chapters include ‘Training Techniques and Workouts’, ‘Strength Training’, ‘Eat for Health and Performance’ and ‘Mental Toughness’, but maybe a few others didn’t quite make it into the book…
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Sep
There used to be a Cold Rock Ice Creamery in Northbridge, directly on my walk home from the city. It’s now Red Rooster, so I have replaced one readily accessible naughty culinary indulgence with another. The nearest Cold Rock now is in Scarborough. Today, I got them to mix in extra cookie dough to the…
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Sep
Looking back, I’ve twice blogged about visiting Old Trafford cricket ground in Manchester – the home of the Lancashire team – oops! – but I’ve never posted on going to Headingley Cricket Club in Leeds, Yorkshire, on the same trip when I was twenty-two. I do have Lancastrian ancestors, so maybe I’m subconsciously biased. Or…
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Aug
In the Canary Islands, drivers stopped for me when I used them. They didn’t in Argentina, unless they were at a set of traffic lights and had to stop anyway.
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Aug
Michael from Perth
A unique view of the strange and spectacular world through the eyes of Michael from Perth
