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Inbetween Days: May 2009
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Tuesday, May 26, 2009. A little rain - little water song - city rain/city streets. Confession: I am enjoying a natural disaster. I know this means I'm playing with karma, and earning some of the negative kind, but I can't help it. My paltry excuse is that I am from a country where the Google. Keyword search results for "drought" would number in the quadbillions (if there is such a thing) so I have a reason to get all excited over rain. Off come the thongs. I know, I know, there was a lot more than 'water...
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Inbetween Days: Shelter from the storm
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Tuesday, June 2, 2009. Shelter from the storm. While I was busy entertaining the Chittagongian city-folk during Cyclone Aila, the coastal areas and islands in Bangladesh were (and still are) having a tougher time of it. In terms of cyclone severity, it didn't rate very high on the danger scale, however so much damage has been caused because the cyclone hit at high tide, which meant already high waters just went higher, and higher, and higher. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). Caffeine in the morning sun.
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Inbetween Days: Tightrope
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Sunday, March 1, 2009. So the 'gun battle' turned into a bloody mutiny of Bangladesh's border troops in Dhaka, complete with horrendous mass graves, mutilated bodies, and nation-wide condemnation. It looks as if things are settling down now, but this is a scary and sad reminder that democracy and law and order in Bangladesh remain fragile. OMG - here I am worrying about getting the keys for my shop and your worrying about stray bullets and tumbling into mass graves! Monday, March 02, 2009.
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Inbetween Days: August 2009
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Wednesday, August 26, 2009. Wish you were here. I love TV. Everyone who knows me knows that. Especially Channel 10 (with Channels 7&9 coming in a close second and third of course). Neighbours! Yes, an AYAD documentary! Screening on Channel 10 (Australia) this Sunday August 30 at 3pm. Find out more,. Before sitting down on the couch with a glass of wine to toast those out there who can't toast. Monday, August 17, 2009. On the job - getting the low down on. A cucumber farm in Cox's Bazaar. The way to school.
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Inbetween Days: Song for my sugar spun sister
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Tuesday, October 13, 2009. Song for my sugar spun sister. For her first day in Dhaka, I whisked Kara off to the beautician where we promptly got pretty toes. It's all about easing her in gently. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). This is a song to say goodbye. Song for my sugar spun sister. A day in the life. View my complete profile. Via e mail: lyrianf at hot mail or follow me on twitter. AusAID Youth Ambassadors for Development. Meeting in the aisle - (my other blog).
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Inbetween Days: Border Song
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Sunday, September 27, 2009. Things I’m going to love not missing. 3 Living in a petri dish of putrification. The sheer stench of humanity has caught me unawares in Bangladesh. Of course I expected some stinkiness. I’ve traveled through countries with worrisome approaches to sewage before, let alone markets, food and all the other sources of smell. But true to style, Bangladesh takes the smelliness factor to a whole new level. Between the smell of everyone’s morning er, business; the pong of animal ...
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Inbetween Days: Lullaby
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Wednesday, October 7, 2009. Things I'm going to miss loving. 4 Getting my gear on. Know what it’s like to dress up as a grape? What it’s like to wear your pyjamas to work every day? How it feels walking into a meeting with conservative VIPs in thongs? What it’s like to not have a fat day? I do, I do, I do! 8217;, or ‘how dressed up should I be? 8217;, or ‘am I having a fat day or a thin day? That is the wonder of the salwar kameez. I'll play the grape in today's fruit cocktail. 4 This means WAR. Cockroac...
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Inbetween Days: Weekend(s) without makeup
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Tuesday, March 10, 2009. Some days end more excitingly than others. I was reminded of that yesterday as my day in the field ended with this:. Just an idea…. Now, I’m aware this blog has been a little less than rosy lately, so I thought it was time to share some of the truly cool and wonderful and fun and exciting things I’ve been up to in an effort to boost the mood in a totally legal, clean living kind of way. And what better place to start than at Adventure Land and Paradise Valley! The market in town ...
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Letters for Literary Ladies: Emilie de Coulanges
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Letters for Literary Ladies. Monday, December 8, 2008. I found this a much more engaging novel than Madame de Fleury. This is not a perfect novel - the romance plot is a bit tacked on, and there is a miraculous restoration of the de Coulanges fortune a la Madame de Fleury. However, for the psychological complexity of the interaction between Emilie and Mrs Somers along, this is well worth a read. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). View my complete profile. Madam de Beaumont and The Count de Vinevil.
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Letters for Literary Ladies: Henrietta
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Letters for Literary Ladies. Friday, December 26, 2008. I found this novel really wonderful. Henrietta is a great heroine, and mercifully does not faint as much as Lennox's Harriot Stuart. Lennox has wonderful comic timing and the social satire in this novel is brilliant. I really enjoyed her portrayal of Miss Woodby, which I think may just have influenced Austen's portrayal of Isabella Thorpe in Northanger Abbey. And Lord B's proposal to Henrietta echoes both Pamela. And Pride and Prejudice. Great resou...
