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I am not back, just visiting - coz I miss you all so much :-(
Posted Jun 10, 2008
*looks at the calendar* 
It has been so so long since I dipped in here, I almost feel like an illegal alien *Police song
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I suppose I really ought to be stating the quo. What am I up to? What could possibly be so mesmerising in my RL that I can all of a sudden be peeled away from my beloved friends and support network on hootoo. How ungrateful can a person be? ... and no more badges, neever!!
Well, it all started to come undone in the summer of 2006...
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This Christmas...
Posted Dec 24, 2007
"... mend a quarrel. Seek out a forgotten friend. Write a love letter. Share some treasure. Give a soft answer. Encourage youth. Keep a promise. Find the time. Forgive an enemy. Listen. Apologise if you were wrong. Think first of someone else. Be kind. Be gentle. Laugh a little. Laugh a little more. Express your gratitude. Gladden the heart of a child. Take pleasure in the beauty and wonder of the earth. Speak your love. Speak it again. Speak it out still once again." - anonymous
This is the text of the card I received today from my brother. He has sent us each a picture book that he has had published, of our summer all together in Lebanon. He has called it the 'M...' Family, Summer 2007, a picture story - it is a large coffee table publication, and is dedicated to our mum and dad for insisting we come spend time together in our homeland. On the first page is a photo of my father with the still-wicked glint in his rheumy eyes, on the last is one of my mother, baseball cap on backwards and hands crossed over with fingers askew รก la gangster with street cred 
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So, with my heart full, sad and happy all at once, I wish all my hootoo friends, who have sustained me and my questionable sanity through two years now, a wonderful Christmas, peace in your hearts and a smile on your lips. I hope that however your Christmas is made up: alone, together, mentally fraught or just still, it brings you a moment of calm and self-assurance.
Merry Christmas, all
and a key to your chimney for 
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Today...
Posted Oct 13, 2007
... my dear dear father completes his eightieth year. I can't express how happy and proud I am that he has made it this far. This is a man who has lived several lifetimes in one, has achieved so much, continues to inspire his children and his man grandchildren. His great granddaughters will have him to look up to as soon as they are old enough to understand his legacy.
Happy Birthday, 
Dad
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I have succumbed to EBay...
Posted Oct 4, 2007
... much as I hate the thought of it (man, but it takes a lot time to get stuff ready to sell) I have finally succumbed and opened a seller's account on EBay.
The purpose is manifold. I have signed our 
up for a trip to Macchu Picchu in October and it is going to cost an arm, a leg and a couple of toes 
as is the birthday party 
has decided she wants come March. Apart from that, as you all know, we downsized in November from a 4 bedroomed house to 2 bedrooms and a cupboard.
To cap it all, we start demolishing the garage sometime - don't know exactly when - but we got our planning permission in August, and knowing Trog, he'll just turn up one day with the boys and a sledgehammer. Then there is all the stuff he drags home from jobs in the more affluent part of town. In the past these have been Freecycled, which I will continue to do for most of it, but there is occasionally the occasional item 
... like the three butchers' blocks on wheels that he brought home on Tuesday 
So. Butchers blocks, trashy novels, kids clothes, toys, odds and bobs - some from us, some from clients and some from my cousin. How do I make sure that I don't mess this up? Any advice from you seasoned EBayers out there?
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The last three years...
Posted Sep 25, 2007
Don't bother with this peeps, it is just me. Work in progress
Go ahead and unsub 
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