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04
Jan

Arrows to the Knees

By Darragh|Blog|3 Comments

I was an adventurer once, then I took an arrow to the knee. Feeling insecure is such an unfamiliar sensation. I’ve been blessed to have experienced a life of relative safety, and even when I drunkenly walked around the streets of Cusco, Peru in a pair of rainbow striped long johns, I never actually ever [...]

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09
Sep

Pedestrian Arch at Southbank

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Randomly stumbled across this when perusing Your Brisbane: Past and Present: an explanation of what the arch next to the Victoria Bridge is all about. Walking past this structure on the way to work nearly every morning left my curious. Here’s the answer…. When the latest bridge was opened in 1969, a reminder of the [...]

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07
Sep

Help New Matilda

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Excellent online news resources New Matilda is in danger of closing next year to a lack of funding. If you’re a fan of having an independent voice in the media that isn’t owned by Rupert Murdoch then you might consider a monthly donation. They’re affordable, and frankly worth it for the top quality articles that [...]

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05
Sep

Moving House

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I’ve spent the majority of the past weekend moving house. This is not exactly my favourite pastime. In fact on a scale of eating ice cream to genocide, moving house and its associated tasks ranks much closer to the full scale destruction of an entire race than it does to the sweet taste of frosty [...]

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