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More than Fishnets: Lone Traveller
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Sunday, 11 August 2013. My Biblical Archaeology lectures were illustrated by slides of the lecturer at various ancient sites (an über-early adopter of the selfie? Looking like a cross between Indiana Jones and Mr Bean. Not only was the subject fascinating but his slides made this strange and historic land seem accessible and familiar. On that trip to Israel I visited the Western Wall approximately six thousand times – I was absolutely mesmerised by everything about the place. Not having to just...I have ...
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More than Fishnets: February 2013
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Sunday, 3 February 2013. I will be attempting to run just over 13 miles on forest trails for no reason other than bloody mindedness; I didn’t think I could do it so now I have to prove myself wrong. Twisted, I know. The upshot of such recklessness is that I have been training pretty hard in an attempt not to embarrass myself on the day. If intelligent grown-ups are still buying in to the idea that women should be trying to be thinner then what hope is there for young girls? The Olympics helped but there&...
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More than Fishnets: January 2013
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Wednesday, 23 January 2013. 8220;You think too much.”. I’ve been on the receiving end of this observation since I was about 13 years old. Back then, I didn’t understand why people were saying this to me with varying degrees of pity, confusion and exasperation; surely thinking a lot was a good thing? This new way of looking at the world was a revelation! It gave me permission to occasionally stop trying to ‘understand’ everything and everyone and to just go along with the world around me as it...Fast forw...
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More than Fishnets: February 2012
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Friday, 17 February 2012. Should the people of Scotland ever gain independence and feel like using the opportunity to try a new form of government, they will surely be looking around at functioning societies and asking themselves what works. After rejecting democracy, theocracy and dictatorship, amongst others, they could do much worse than model themselves on the most highly evolved and efficient of systems – the international flight. The only thing he actually has little control over is when we leave a...
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More than Fishnets: Horrible Housemate
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Saturday, 23 March 2013. Sharing is not a strength of mine. Fleeing the marital home meant making a jump from financing 0.5 to 1.2 households. As a woman used to living to the limits of her means, this was going to involve some major lifestyle changes; keen to minimise these, I briefly considered renting a room in a shared house. Either way, it didn’t win me any friends. The housemates of 1 Latchmere Road. Why did they feel it necessary to share their shitty music tastes with me? My long-suffering ex-hus...
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More than Fishnets: September 2012
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Sunday, 2 September 2012. Clearing out my filing cabinet recently, I came across this list that I wrote and promptly forgot about in 2001, entitled simply ‘WISHES’. In case you can’t read my handwriting, here they are (faithfully transcribed – dreadful grammar included). Live on small island – samos / jersey / sing. etc. See northern lights. (or southern lights). What would I add if I wrote the same list now? For with the associated sense of pining and longing? Not really. Not yet. 8216;Things to see / p...
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More than Fishnets: December 2012
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Monday, 31 December 2012. In January, I shared my New Year’s Resolutions. As 2012 draws to a close, I feel it only fair to honestly review them. Getting there. I still watch television with the laptop and/or ‘phone close by but I have become much better at not turning the television on at all and with the odd show I really like the computer gets a definite back seat. As I become a student again in February I really need to continue working on this. Be a better friend. Achieved this on a technicality by h...
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More than Fishnets: August 2013
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Sunday, 11 August 2013. My Biblical Archaeology lectures were illustrated by slides of the lecturer at various ancient sites (an über-early adopter of the selfie? Looking like a cross between Indiana Jones and Mr Bean. Not only was the subject fascinating but his slides made this strange and historic land seem accessible and familiar. On that trip to Israel I visited the Western Wall approximately six thousand times – I was absolutely mesmerised by everything about the place. Not having to just...I have ...
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More than Fishnets: December 2011
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Thursday, 15 December 2011. In Training – November / December. No, I haven’t gone quiet because I’ve stopped training! I’ve been working hard for the last couple of months, building strength and endurance, and thought an update was in order. December sees me aiming for 5 sessions a week of 45 minutes non-stop cardio and 4 ‘strength’ sessions a week (essentially, lots of sit-ups and press-ups). Any recommendations for 45 minute programmes gratefully received as I’m now working through films instead! This ...
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