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June 2004

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Stone polishing

In tandem with searching on the internet, and asking around, I thought I’d through this question out tall my lovely friends to see if you can help me… Whilst on my trip for Iceland, I found a really nice lava…

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Interviewing for my job (well, almost)

I’ve applied for a new job at Blackwell’s. It’s for the same department, different subject different, doing the job of Production Editor – the job that it is invisaged that eventually, ECQC’s (Electronic Content Quality Controllers) will become. The thing…

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The great mailout

Copies of Passport of Words have today been despatched to treasure_box, nevers, sitonmykarma and absinthe_green. I hope you enjoy it… *scampers away to hide and pray*

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Return to Iceland: Day 2

( The Land of the Midnight Sun ) The Old Friend Day 2. 16 June 2004 Wednesday. A good night’s sleep later – should I say ‘night’ when it never actually got dark? I rise and wash quickly before settling…

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zine-ing, no I haven’t forgotten

I’ve now printed a load of copies of my 48-hour zine, Passport of Words, and just have to assemble them and post them off – hopefully tomorrow. The page alignment is going to be a wee bit off, but that’s…

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Return to Iceland: Day 1

( The Land of the Midnight Sun ) The Journey North Day 1. 15 June 2004 Tuesday. A circumfluent route is taken to get to Oxford when Julian arives at my house a little after 7 o’clock. Missing the turn…

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My assiduous friends…

Currently reading: [the last 300 entries on my friends page] Whilst lj continues to be reasonably okay speed-wise I will try and get up to date with what all my lovely friends have been doing over the past two weeks,…

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Pale Imitation

Today I received a copy of Full Tilt #2 and Glory-of-the-snow by Megan and Heather respectively. This, together with Helen’s All that matters is what makes you happy, which was waiting for me when I got home from holiday yesterday,…

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I am back in merry ol’ England

Twelve hours after I woke up this morning (4 am) and 11 hours after I left the front door of Funafold 13, I walked into my own back door to be greeted enthusiastically by Pepper. After an hour sitting on…

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Blue Bliss

Relaxing in the silica enriched Blue Lagoon has to be the way to spend a morning… http://www.bluelagoon.is

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Weird Link of the Day (sheep plug)

On today´s tour of Reykjavik – following on from the Open Air Museum, lunch in a revolving restaurant on top of four disused water towers, a tour of the bus station (for research purposes) – I have now wandered into…

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Go west

Paved roads behind us we drive out to the end of island … to the very west of the western fjords…

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