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Yippee
Posted Jan 24, 2005
My only proper entry, Deconstruction and Tea, has been picked for the UnderGuide!
"...This piece has been picked by the UnderGuide miners and accepted by the editors for inclusion in the h2g2 UnderGuide. It will be featured on h2g2's front page in due course and then be displayed on the shelves of the UnderGuide Archives at A2112490 and the official archives at C1233.
Congratulations e[version] on both your UnderGuide selection and your timely return!..."
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useless
Posted Jan 24, 2005
I spoke to a friend in Sri Lanka last week. She lives on the opposite coast to the area that was hit with the tsunami and all her family survived. Some of her cousins who live in the area effected managed to escape and pull their grandfather to safety. She signed up straight away with the local NGO and has been helping with the clear up operation; she's an architecture student so she will probably be using her skills to help with the rehousing program.
She's seen the bodies piled up at the side of the road; she's seen children who've died of starvation because they just wandered for days, orphaned and unable to feed themselves; she's seen bodies pulled from train wrecks caused by the water; she's almost been hijacked by looters trying to take the aid they were carrying; she has stories to tell of the child abuse occuring in the emergency camps and she's been chased by a pack of dogs who have acquired the taste of human flesh.
Every word that fell from my lips was useless. I didn't have a single idea or piece of advice that measured up to the situation. In the end I just listened.
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on wheels
Posted Jan 24, 2005
But such a mood cannot be deliberately invoked. It must come by accident, although we do at least know that we must be on foot, for only thus can we emulate the casual, sideways motions of butterflies, or of bees, drinking the city's nectar. Wheeled things go in a straight line, to infinity; you cannot cover a city, or have any part of it, on wheels...
http://rob.annable.co.uk/journal.cgi/books/paul_jennings_I
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I'm back
Posted Jan 17, 2005
A series of coincidences led me back here during the very week that one of my entries got picked up by the Alternative Writing Group.
The warm glow coming from all the compliments has persuaded me that I should make more effort and re-engage with the site. Only time will tell if I can of use both here and on my own site - http://rob.annable.co.uk
Perhaps I should even think about being a community artist again?
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Birmingham School of Architecture
Posted Feb 6, 2003
Note to self: Created a page for BSA members - content to be added could be...
Lists of h2g2 users who study at BSA
Links to entries written by students
Off site links and inter-guide links
discussion forum
Perhaps need different pages for each year
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