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First they came for the verbs and I said nothing, for verbing weirds language. Then they arrival for the nouns and I speech nothing, for I no verbs.

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Linguist with wanderlust,
From the hills of New Guinea to the halls of the Sorbonne,
From the beaches of Bassam to the fields of Friesland,
From the catacombs of Rome to the Blue Mountains of Jamaica.
From the heather of the Veluwe to the dust of Dakar ...

Currently resident in the Land of Sea with a small tribe of kids and Mr B.

Yackety yak

Honey, can youse take out the trash?

I even sorted my crap: plastic with plastic, paper with paper, oozing sticky fluids with noxious defrosting fish.

Three carloads up and down the drive and it was done.

A little bit of Al Green, then I’m

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urban gypsy

August 3, 2005 at 3:36 am · Reply

Whoa… from Rome to the Netherlands and then Jamaica! How great would that be?! BTW, your son has great taste in home decor and I’ll take the inflatables from your yard sale.
Ria

August 2, 2005 at 11:49 pm · Reply

Thanks, Alex.

2.5 months in the Netherlands, then off to funky Kingston.

Our son (aged 4.5) has designed our house according to our instructions – double hammock, wide patio with fridge and WiFi.

Ahhh …
Alex

August 2, 2005 at 11:13 pm · Reply

Bye Ria. Don’t let the moving get you down too much – which is not easy, I know.
Are you heading for Paris? And will you be blogging from there?

Take care and take it easy (after the move!)

Andiamo!

The packers arrived at 8:00 and I had to tell them to wait. We still had no quote for the shipment and therefore had no idea of the cost. Imagine … we write them a blank cheque, they take all our stuff and hold it as ransom until we pay whatever they ask!

The quote arrived just

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Zinnia Cyclamen

August 2, 2005 at 6:36 am · Reply

All that and you managed a blog post too. What are you, superwoman? ;-) Best of luck with your trip.
rachie

August 1, 2005 at 2:06 pm · Reply

Good luck!

Girl-on-girl housework

There’s an ad campaign in Italy at the moment for endermology treatment that looks as if you iron away your cellulite.

I like the picture because I can imagine it embodies a doubly erotic fantasy for many men.I love the levitating table, but close up, the endermologicky machine looks

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Ria

June 17, 2005 at 3:45 pm · Reply

But you have such flawless skin, Zinnia, your pores! And you’re so cellulite-free and perky. The figure of of (help me here)

ach, lost it
Zinnia Cyclamen

June 17, 2005 at 1:46 pm · Reply

Eek! Scary and alien! As are beauty salons in general, to me anyway, as I’m one of the scruffiest and least glamorous people I know (hope I’m not shattering any illusions here!!).
Zinnia Cyclamen

June 21, 2005 at 8:40 am · Reply

eh?? Junoesque is more like it!! But hey, of course, this is cyberspace… so, let’s think waist-length blonde hair, green eyes, skin/cellulite/perkiness exactly as you describe, abs flat as a dinner table, all muscles toned to perfection, tallish, long legs… ah, the dreams, the dreams!
kenju

June 16, 2005 at 12:30 pm · Reply

I am so glad I decided to post about my screen name and let people know I am not Japanese; not that it matters a whole lot, but you might picture me differently now!
kenju

June 15, 2005 at 11:57 pm · Reply

I have always wondered if Endermologie is a scam or if it really helps. Sure looks like something out of aliens’ minds, to me.
kenju

June 16, 2005 at 7:34 pm · Reply

I just realized I didn’t answer your question this a.m. Yes, my childhood memories are somewhat more acute now, while more recent happenings are forgotten! I do find that thinking about them before I post brings back more detail than I realized I remembered. Every time I read someone else’s memories, it reminds me of things I had forgotten (or thought I had).

When I go back home for school reunions, however, people tell about things that happened in school and I have no memory of them at all.It is odd.
rachie

June 15, 2005 at 6:26 pm · Reply

Jesus. It does truly look as if it’s designed to eat your brain.

I could learn to love my cellulite. Really.
kenju

June 16, 2005 at 12:28 pm · Reply

Ria, thank you so much for offering to help with photos. As soon as I have time to go through the box of old ones and find the ones I want, I may take you up on it. A few other people have also offered; my problem is that being so very computer illiterate, I don’t know most of the terminology – and I am useless at finding files, etc.

I suppose I need to hire a “geek” to help teach me all this important stuff!
Ria

June 17, 2005 at 8:18 pm · Reply

sylphlike!

ah-ha.

Life’s too short to stuff a mushroom

Shirley Conran’s epigraph to Superwoman is as true today as it was 30 years ago. Here’s the high and low points of my day.

06:45Woken by small boy. Freddo, mama. I’m bibbering. Stripped him off and showered him down. Stripped bed and loaded wash #1. Dressed both kids. Made their breakfast. Made their school lunch. Brought tea

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Ria

February 20, 2005 at 8:53 pm · Reply

1. Bathe
2. Change vacuum cleaner bag
3. Do hair
4. Take car for oil change
5. Talk to pediatrician
6. Put “pick nose” on tomorrow’s to do list

Just kidding … sort of
vit

February 17, 2005 at 1:51 pm · Reply

AAAAAAAAAAAAGGGGGGGGGGGHGHGHGHHGG!!!!!!!

blimey that sounds familiar…. do you get time to bathe/do hair/talk to friends/pick nose?

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