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Cronut-town

April 30, 2017by Alex Leave a comment

And now I’m on a plane to New York. I have 60 hours in New York City: it feels like a challenge. I’ve never liked this city. However, I’m fairly certain that that’s my fault, not its.

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London, Mid-air thoughts, travel

I can resist everything — except temptation.

November 1, 2015by Alex Leave a comment

This post is essentially my confession: confessions of a fortnight misspent in Melbourne’s dens of iniquity and raw fish.

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‘Cause there’s beauty in the breakdown

August 6, 2015by Alex 6 Comments

“All wrong, all wrong!”

Well, great. Just what you want to hear whilst naked and vulnerable on a table.

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London

Librans suck at making decisions

December 29, 2014by Alex 5 Comments

And I am a freaking typical Libran.

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The Tour de Fridge and other ways to mess up your Sunday

November 26, 2014by Alex 3 Comments

When you just really want to get creative with your drinking.

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Chaos on the colourful streets of Fitzroy

August 31, 2014by Alex 6 Comments

Date: 31 August, the last day of winter here. Location: Bed! Three years ago, Bunky and I realised that what was really missing from our social calendar was a competitive […]

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WebMD has diagnosed you with a severe case of FOMO

August 8, 2014by Alex 1 Comment

Date: 6 August. Location: Rokk Ebony hairdresser, getting my balayaged mane tamed. And I feel about 13 years old as mum has offered to pay (obviously, even via FaceTime, the […]

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Not as clever as you might think

August 6, 2014by Alex Leave a comment

Date: 5 August. Location: Emporia, Myer's pretentious little coffee shop on Little Bourke. If I had a licence to practise as an adult it would have been revoked yesterday. I […]

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We all need a fishbowl

August 2, 2014by Alex 2 Comments

Date: 31 August Location: Pastuso, this neat new Peruvian place on ACDC Lane, named after Paddington Bear. I had such a great education. My parents are both scientists and encouraged […]

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She had come unstuck in time

July 27, 2014by Alex 3 Comments

Date: 26 July. Location: my couch, white wine in hand, killing time before the cab gets here. Sleep. How long has it been since you’ve been able to sleep, entirely […]

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  • Let’s float, lets glide
  • Scorpion tornados.
  • There it is before you, smiling, frowning, inviting, grand, mean, insipid, or savage, and always mute with an air of whispering, "Come and find out".
  • What intoxicating vanity
  • The Isle Is full Of Noises.

Thought for the week

"The man who writes about himself and his own time is the only man who writes about all people and all time." - George Bernard Shaw

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