on witches in Ghana- Darakat, you would've already seen this I suppose.

African Witches

I find stuff like this incredible (non-judgemental tone used here). It's very interesting when you look at the economic/social reasons for any form of persecution that occurs, in any country- including our own.

Best headline award goes to: "Rendition: isn't that American for torture?"

Article under the cut: (Copy and pasted as frequently The Age articles are hard to get access to after the first day they're up.

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A lot has been said about how to prevent rape ( Read more... )

I haven't worked on the novel very much lately- what with going down to Melbs/house stress etc. I think it was a tad too ambitious to try for NaNo this year, though I'll probably do it again next year with less stuff on my back. Anyway, this morning I decided, despite my initial plans, to go to Bardelis for coffee and a writing session. As I was ( Read more... )

from melbourne last night with D. Man- what a trip, it was totally crazy, especially the first two days. We flew out at about 9:00am on Thursday and went pretty much straight to our hotel, then out for lunch with D's friend Suzi. LOL- she forgot she was meant to be meeting us, so we stood around for ages- but on the plus side, I got vox popped ( Read more... )

This post contains many thoughts, so I've used an LJ-Cut

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It's over- Suzanne was incredibly happy about the condition of the house (despite the fan not being cleaned), and other than me having to clean up some dirty rings on the stove- the metal ones, which hadn't been done properly, and a tiny bit more cleaning (about 15/20 ins worth) it's all done- and mine prime concern (huge loss of bond) is over.

It's funny, I swear- basically you type "_________(your name) likes/wants/needs" into Google (quotation marks are a must) and then copy the funniest/strangest text that you get. It should come out as "_____________ likes.....". I did 5 of each word:

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Pick ten of your favourite movies, and post screen caps of them on your LJ so your friends can guess what the films are:

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