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Arabic Blog

nobody@vox.com(Janette) — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 14:46:22 +1300

This morning, I noticed that someone from Riyadh had looked at my latest blog post. This is what the blog looks like for them.

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This Just to Say

nobody@vox.com(Janette) — Sun, 08 Nov 2009 23:42:19 +1300

That I am in fact still here. I don't have an ergonomic computer setup at the moment so I'm not doing much typing, lots of surfing, but no typing. In my virtual absence, life has been going along quietly here. It's spring and the rhododendrons ...

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Not Blogging

nobody@vox.com(Janette) — Sat, 03 Oct 2009 21:37:08 +1200

This is the longest time between posts since I started blogging here in late 2006. Back then I was newly-married and had just moved to Costa Rica. Travis and I were on a kind of extended honeymoon. We explored by day (when Travis wasn't working...

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Wind

nobody@vox.com(Janette) — Sun, 06 Sep 2009 01:13:02 +1200

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Posing Petras

nobody@vox.com(Janette) — Sat, 29 Aug 2009 22:33:12 +1200

When I point a camera at Petra these days, she makes faces at me or gives me big cheesy scrunch-faced photo grins before rushing over to look at the picture. Natural photos are not easy to come by as a result. I have to sneak up on her. Here sh...

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The P's Have It

nobody@vox.com(Janette) — Sat, 29 Aug 2009 00:13:02 +1200

Petra's gotten very enthusiastic about drawing and writing recently. We bought her a little etch-a-sketch this afternoon so that she can practice without being tempted to draw on the furniture. (I've been finding scribbles in unexpected places b...

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Dunedin: It's all right here

nobody@vox.com(Janette) — Tue, 25 Aug 2009 21:07:26 +1200

The weather has been fabulous, amazing, stunning - 20 degrees today and August is usually the coldest month in this part of the world. Lambs frisk, our camellias and irises are in bloom and the rhododendrons and daffodils aren't far behind. We'v...

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New Zealand Pop

nobody@vox.com(Janette) — Wed, 29 Jul 2009 21:27:52 +1200

One of the pleasures of being in New Zealand again is settling back into the shared musical culture. In Canada, I didn't know the local music history at all. I attended a wedding in Saskatchewan and had my "you're not from around these parts ar...

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Just Because

nobody@vox.com(Janette) — Tue, 21 Jul 2009 23:43:05 +1200

Here's a video of the Dresden Dolls covering Science Fiction Double Feature from the Rocky Horror Picture Show. I was singing Petra to sleep earlier tonight and this was the song that popped into my head. (There's only so many times I can sing T...

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Smiling Petras

nobody@vox.com(Janette) — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 21:32:06 +1200

I have tendonitis in my wrists at the moment and am taking a break from typing for a few weeks. In lieu of words, here are a couple of pictures of Petra.

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