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Approaching Sunset

Posted in Photos, The Netherlands, tagged on November 30, 2008 | 1 Comment »

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Warming Leaves

Posted in Photos, The Netherlands, tagged on November 29, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

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Against the Winter Sun

Posted in Photos, The Netherlands, tagged on November 28, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

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Travelling Buildings

Posted in Art, tagged on November 27, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

I sent a some friends of mine some of the photos I’ve been taking here in Netherlands and prompted by seeing the Rotterdam cube houses one of them sent me a link to “50 Strange Buildings of the World” which was fascinating and could prompt some more architectural tourism on my part. I thought I’d [...]

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A Walk in the Woods

Posted in Photos, The Netherlands, tagged , on November 23, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

Yesterday, amid the snow and the hail I escaped to Nijmegen, near the German border and went for a little walk in the woods.

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Snow Day

Posted in Photos, The Netherlands, tagged , on November 22, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

Then one day you wake up and it’s all different….

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The Evaluator

Posted in Speaking, tagged , on November 21, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

I’ve mentioned many roles that a non-speaking toastmaster can take up during a Toastmasters meeting but the one role that fills me with dread is that of the Evaluator and tonight, that’s me, The Evaluator.
You see, you don’t just get up, give your speech and it’s all over. Every speaker is assigned an evaluator, the [...]

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Long Titles

Posted in Asia, Books, China, Travels, Uncategorized on November 20, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

I was realy excited when I bought “Lost on Planet China: The Strange and True Story of One Man’s Attempt to Understand the World’s Most Mystifying Nation, or How He Became Comfortable Eating Live Squid” by J. Maarten Troost and not just because it would mean I could really up the word count of this [...]

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Zes Maanden (Six Months)

Posted in Life, The Netherlands on November 18, 2008 | 2 Comments »

Six months and time for a review.
1. It’s still hard for me to remember to call it the Netherlands, that’s just bad schooling I guess, once you get here, the touchy ones will inform you that Holland is merely two provinces of The Netherlands and I don’t even live in “Holland” so I really should [...]

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Battle Beyond The Stars

Posted in Telly, tagged , on November 18, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

Another necessary purchase from last weekend’s trip to Dublin was the 4th Season DVD of Battlestar Galactica. Due to the writer’s strike not the whole season but merely half, a tease but needed to feed my addiction.
Left at the end of Season 3 with Jimi Hendrix’s All Along the Watchtower, the shock revelation of four [...]

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