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What makes today's happening even more miraculous is that you really wouldn't expect to require a miracle for it to happen. I know you might find it hard to believe, but today we managed, after an 81 day war with British telecommunication companies to have the internet connected at home in one of the largest cities in the world. I suspect some day soon, there is a post coming about how seriously unbelievable the problems have been, but I'll leave that for another time1.
As a result of this 81 day internet hiatus, I'm massively over stocked with holiday type ... more
Another installment from Laura
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Hello everyone! We hope you're all well. Many thanks for keeping us up to date on your comings and goings. Happy birthday to all the many April babes.
Well, mum and dad left two Mondays ago and I’ve been missing them ever since! Before they came over I had been missing Jiselle and the bub the most because I had mum and dad’s trip to look forward to. But Simon and I had such a fantastic time with them that’s probably made it difficult to return to normal life. Our friend Susan is a brilliant friend, not least for the ... more
Hi from London #5
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Care of Laura, here is our fifth (kind of) weekly update. It is, quite obviously, at least a week late making its way here, but finally it arrived:
Hi everyone! How are you all? Thanks for all the emails (I even got some photos this time.)
I have been counting down the days until these next two weeks. Simon and I are off to Germany for the Easter weekend with three other couples: Dave and Sue (our housemates) Ollie and Miriam from Adelaide and Matt and Jen from Sydney. Mims and Jen have done all the organising and we’re just ... more
A day out.
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It's well past the due date for an update around here. I've found that every time I decide it's time for a new entry all that happens is I accumulate a new draft. I've got this obsession with going large on the blog posts which tends to mean not finishing what I started.
So my resolve is to be ok with making somewhat shorter and more frequent posts. I'm fairly certain I've made a similar resolution before, so let's hope this time it actually works.
I've finally managed to start uploading some photos of our travels (which I'm actually happy ... more
It lives
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What? You mean we're in January already? Funny, I don't remember there being a New Year's at all.
P.S. I haven't just been ignoring this place. Check out withoutpockets.com. The awesomeness of brand new shirts arrives very soon.
This is sw'as, the digital home of Simon Elvery - a 26 year old Web Developer with too many extra curricular interests. Usually written from Brisbane, Australia, sw'as has entries dating back to 2004 on subjects including politics, photography, books, music, and many other flights of fancy.
