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In which the pond celebrates the reptiles' ongoing war with the ABC ... - Ah, the good old days of the whiteboard, now apparently revived, though anyone googling the most recent revival of this style of government won't find Ne...5 hours ago
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Anthony Roth Costanzo Sings Handel at National Sawdust - Russell Platt on Anthony Roth Costanzo’s performance in Handel’s “Aci, Galatea, e Polifemo,” at National Sawdust.12 hours ago
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Water: With added hydrogen, oxygen, or adjusted acidity - I received this inquiry from a reporter wanting a comment: Hi, Marion, I’m doing a story about the trend of waters that claim to have extra health benefits...1 day ago
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No, Ibn Khaldun is not the father of economics - I am a great admirer of work of the C14th Muslim intellectual Abū Zayd ‘Abd ar-Raḥmān ibn Muḥammad ibn Khaldūn al-Ḥaḍramī (1332-1406), known as Ibn Khaldun...2 days ago
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Tofu - It's Friday evening and I had a substantial dinner but I am just wanting to eat, eat, eat in this freezing weather. I would really like some chocolate, whi...6 days ago
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Scab is always taunt - BETTER PEOPLE THAN YOU or I have fought against shifting displacement. The Green Bans are the well-known heroic story of the beginning of built-environmen...2 weeks ago
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Lincoln in the Bardo by George Saunders - ‘Good Grief,’ *Sydney Review of Books *(20 June 2017). American literature does not lack for accomplished short-story writers, but few have achieved the ...4 weeks ago
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Sydney Writers’ Festival - Sydney Writers’ Festival is just around the corner, and features a stellar line-up that includes George Saunders, Anne Enright, Colson Whitehead, Mariko Ta...2 months ago
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A Guide To Los Angeles - The city of angels is one of the most majestic and special cities on the entire planet and when you see it you will know the reason why. This post is i...2 months ago
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use it or lose it - turns out if you don't blog for over a year the part of your brain that stores your blog password (the same one you've had for the entire ten, no, ELEVEN y...3 months ago
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Thursday - Going out for a drink on a weeknight in Adelaide is easier than it used to be, but you can’t leave it too late because the only places that stay open after...3 months ago
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Federer releases "Imagine" - Whenever I return to this blog to look at things I wrote about in the past, more often than not it is the non-political posts that I re-read, perhaps becau...5 months ago
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Time Capsule - So I mentioned before that I'd been contacted by time travelers. I wanted to do a follow-up on the latest developments, and it needed a bit more space tha...5 months ago
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Merry Quakemas - I haven’t always been bah humbug about Christmas. As a child, I loved the ritual of the tree. Our neighbours had two large pines, that all the local kids c...6 months ago
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Starting again - It's the nature of blogs to go from feverish activity to inaction, and Humanities Researcher is no exception. It's been a very busy year, but I am currentl...1 year ago
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A Bear and a Lion and a brand new school - Our world has fundamentally shifted. We have moved schools halfway through the primary years, and our worlds, especially those of our children, have been r...1 year ago
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Not-cross-buns, 2016 - Continuing a fine tradition in our house of subverting pre-existing festivals for our own purposes, I’ve made not-cross-buns, using the excellent recipe on...1 year ago
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In which the fish discerns her friend in the darkness - I'm not sure when it became usual to have endless stretches of dull grey weather in summer. Today is yet another one: flat light, mean grey...1 year ago
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CFP: Object Lessons: The Victorians and the Material Text - Cahiers Victoriens et Edouardiens Object Lessons: The Victorians and the Material Text A special issue edited by Mary Elizabeth Leighton and Lisa Surridge...1 year ago
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Celebrating new books - Over the next week I'm looking forward to celebrating the birth of two new books. No. Not mine. When contemplating the release of my own book I'm generally...2 years ago
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A pretext for moving along - I think I've come to terms that this blog is over. It was a fantastic way to meet people and talk about my thoughts and processes, but I seem to be channel...3 years ago
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Plus Ultra! - I know Brian said that we’d posted our last, but I couldn’t let the very kind words on the thread announcing our closure to go un-remarked. I also thought ...3 years ago
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What I Read in 2013 #1: Way Station by Clifford D. Simak - There are number of books I keep coming back to, books that made an impression on me at some time in my life and to which I return every five or ten years ...3 years ago
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A condolence of sorts - Melbourne. Full moon, winter solstice and a real chill in the air. I have been walking the Fitzroy streets even more than usual in the days since Betty Bur...4 years ago
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Doctor Sister Outlaw answers the question “can a soufflé rise twice?” - Who knows? They never last that long around here.* The soufflé inspires dread in many a cook, probably because we all grew up with images of soufflé disast...5 years ago
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Larvatus Prodeo: A four-cannon salute - Sad news as the good ship Larvatus Prodeo hoists anchor and departs the waters immediately to our south. Fort Solor duly issues four-gun salute. *Sargento ...5 years ago
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Week 45 – Journey’s end and new beginnings - Christmas Day dawns fine and hot in the settlements, with the colonists in pensive mood. Inevitably their thoughts turn to friends and family in England a...5 years ago
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Letter to Charlie - 10 months - Dear Charlie Yesterday you turned 10 months old. You are changing from a baby into a little boy before our eyes at the moment and it is quite amazin...5 years ago
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Fairfax Melbourne Managing Director Don Churchill’s Departing Herogram to Staff - Dear Colleagues, My indication to the company to retire from the business, announced today, comes after a wonderful and exciting 46 years plus in the med...5 years ago
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Whoops, a blog entry I forgot to post–Home again home again jiggerty jig. - I’ve made it home, via Chiang Mai and Luang Prabang. Goodness, Luang Prabang is magical. I’d not been to Laos before, and only went to Luang Prabang becaus...6 years ago
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New posts: Bloke-ing up, Settled, It’s quiet around here - New posts at A Bee of a Certain Age: Bloke-ing up Settled It’s quiet around here Simple roast rack of lamb Friday Feminist – Fiona Kidman (2) My new blog i...6 years ago
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sleeping with bears - On Sunday morning, I caught up with the not-so-speedies (a ka: the ‘slowpokes’). For those not in the know, this is a consortium of peoples who prefer to r...7 years ago
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Recalling the Public Phone - Guest Post by Jayde Cahir I have owned a mobile for 14 years. Even while backpacking overseas in the late 90s I carried one with me. But I’m not a mobile ...7 years ago
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5 comments:
Happy happy kitty. I heard somebody call that colour 'a fig-jam cat'.
Obviously the only way to interest that cats in those is to sit in one yourself. I'm sure my cats see me as a seat warmer for them.
the cats...
Similar (cartoon) image in this week's New Yorker.
(S)he is just reminding you that (s)he is, after all, a cat.
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