LOVE IT. I specifically chose "Wanggara" - a bastardised Anglicisation of Wen Ge Hua (the proper pinyin for "Vancouver", 溫哥華) - because it sounded to my (very, very uneducated, I have to say) ears like it might pass for a word
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I'm at Hongqiao airport waiting for a flight to Tianjin that has been delayed because of "technical difficulties", and Melissa just txted me the news: Australia will have a Labor minority government, and Julia Gillard will remain Prime Minister
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I live in Australia, a very big, very dry, geologically very old, and very beautiful country that's been in drought for the last decade. In terms of liquid fresh water, it's the second driest continent, after Antarctica
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Geoff Davies' "Economia: New economic systems to empower people and support the living world" is a book that incorporates so many of my intellectual interests (economics, science, sociology, systems theory, anthropology, etc.), and has a vision that almost makes me shrug off my overwhelming cynicism and deep depression about the future - until I
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Jason Flemyng (Stardust) and Laila Rouass (Footballers' Wives) will join the regular cast of the third season of ITV's Primeval, playing a maverick policeman Danny Quinn, and Egyptologist Sarah Page. (Digital Spy) [imdb]
Apple's Set To Screen podcast will feature 10 video podcasts about the making of Baz Luhrmann's (Moulin Rouge) period epic
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Reviews for Joe Wright's adaptation of Atonement. Stella Papamichael at BBC writes: Flourishes of ‘hyper-reality’ are grounded by sterling performances from Knightley (defined by a strong and elegantly poised backbone), Romola Garai as the 18-year-old Briony and, above all, James McAvoy. He exudes the essence of humanity in a truly soulful picture
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It's raining, and the sound is incredibly beautiful, the pitter-patter on corrugated roofing over Puccini on my radio. Not least because it means that I won't have to go around with a watering can reviving the plants tomorrow.