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happy birthday liz

today is the queen’s birthday. and we joined other members of the commonwealth in taking today off in celebration best thing is that today is not really the queen’s birthday. her actually birthday is april 21st. but april is not…

a kiwi hero is gone

sir edmund hillary passed away last friday. i haven’t been here long enough to fully appreciate how much he meant to new zealanders but it is clear that he meant a lot to a lot of people bridging many cultures.…

november 22 – just another day

what i did today: got up at 0545 put the kettle on took the dog out made the coffee showered & dressed walked to the 0651 bus rode into town with the other worker bees work, work, work came home…

more english than england

one of my former london based orange colleagues posts occasionally to his journal – usually focusing on design topics. recently he reflected on some of his favourite words that were disappearing from common use in england. no surprise that many of the…