I’m going to Tanzania! I’m going in about two weeks with the coffee people who sent me to Uganda in April. It’ll be a bit different this time as they want more of a travel piece so we’ll be hanging out in the foothills of Mount Kilimanjaro and combining coffee and tourism. Should be awesome!

I was browsing through my stats and you can certainly tell that summer has arrived in this part of the world. I have bolded the seasonal search terms.
7.89% pimms ascot7.89% hampstead caitlin australia5.26% supercalifragilisticexpialidocious poppins5.26% former editor british elle5.26% jodhi may florence pictures2.63% a soldier’s tale, play2.63% photos of strawberries and cream at wimbledon2.63% caitlin [...]

Our World Cup dreams went up in smoke after Italy managed to score a penalty shot in injury time. So close and yet so far!
I feel quite passionless about it really. I would of course be happy if we’d won, though a little sad for Italy (I do have a soft spot for Italy). [...]

We won! We won! Okay, we didn’t win - we drew! But that’s as good as a win coz now we get to go through to the semi-final. And in my heart we won 3-2 even if Cahill’s final goal was disallowed because the ref had already blown the whistle for full time.
I’m glad we [...]

I’ve been busy, busy, busy but you can read this post on Natalie’s blog to find out what I was up to last weekend. (Clue: The hint is in the title).
I’ll write soon - I promise!

What a fabulous book! I can see why this is considered one of the great books of the twentieth century. I wonder if it’s on all the lists - it certainly should be.
When writing instructors tell their students to “show, not tell”, they should simply point them in the direction of The Color Purple by [...]

The Australian Government is set to bring in new legislation mandating that all asylum seekers, including women and children, will be shipped to offshore detention centres to have their applications processed. These people have already suffered so much and I believe it is wrong for us to add to their suffering by locking them up [...]

Crows in Tokyo have developed an insatiable appetite for broadband internet cable to line their nests, according to this story in The Times. They have discovered that the fibre-optic cable is far easier to use than telephone wires or power cables. Previous efforts to get the crow population in Tokyo under control have failed as [...]

I started my kayaking course at a canoe club in East London last night. They use a sheltered baisin off to the side of the Thames, which is a good spot for practising in fairly benign conditions. A few of us with some prior experience are going to form an advanced beginners group and do [...]

For the past two hours I have been keeping one eye on BBC Online’s live World Cup coverage and the other eye on my work. It’s Australia’s first soccer World Cup for 32 years and this match against Japan, our first of the tournament, was doubly important because we also have Brazil and Croatia in [...]