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Sidi Mansour vs Ma Baker

Ria — Fri, 18 Jul 2008 21:51:40 +0000

Life in Kingston, Jamaica was sometimes like living in a war zone: occasional bursts of excitement — driving after dark through a ghetto zone, boarding up the windows as a hurricane approached — interspersed with long periods of boredom, for the city does not offer much in the way of amusement for a young family

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Daiquiri virgin

Ria — Sun, 27 Aug 2006 23:18:52 +0000

We followed Ernesto’s trail online hour by hour but by early morning it had become clear that he was turning away from Jamaica and moving north. So we feel pretty silly sitting in a house with boarded-up windows (actually only four windows – that’s all the plywood we had).

We also tried to follow local

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Ernesto has a problem

Ria — Fri, 25 Aug 2006 16:55:47 +0000

Music while you read, probably written by Winston Jarrett, but most definitely produced by Lee “Scratch” Perry.

Ernesto has an identity crisis: he doesn’t know if he’s a tropical storm or a hurricane … yet. On this cool flash tracking map, he hasn’t even reached name status, just “Tropical Depression Five”.

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Shopping for hurricanes

Ria — Thu, 11 May 2006 05:13:08 +0000

Hurricane season is fast approaching and the signs do not augur well. Everyone has become a seasoned climatologist, foreseeing upcoming catastrophe in each new hot, dry day. This is how it was before Ivan, they tell me, even before Gilbert. And after the predictions come the heroic battle stories of surviving previous hurricanes â€“ days,

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Waterbeds III: the pics

Ria — Mon, 12 Dec 2005 11:34:42 +0000

Apologies for the quality of the photos, but given the circumstances they were the best I could do. Next photos will be back to my usual high standards ;-D

This part of the hotel had just been renovated. The force and volume of the rain was such that water seeped through the window frames

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Waterbeds II

Ria — Thu, 08 Dec 2005 08:12:09 +0000

Back online after a month in the netherworld of the unplugged, after a month of unpacking furniture we no longer need and machines that no longer work. Our house, like many here, has built-in closets in every room upstairs, rendering our re-packed flat IKEA wardrobes redundant. As for the machines, the switch from 220V to

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Waterbeds

Ria — Tue, 08 Nov 2005 08:33:16 +0000

(Delayed post because of failed migration to new Web site.

Tip: do not attempt to emigrate both blog and family simultaneously.)

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As I mentioned previously, on the third night in Jamaica, we were flooded out of our hotel.

It was the fault of Hurricane Wilma, who had teetered back and forth over the Cayman

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