Hi Mawk
Freya is fine. She sent me an sms when she arrived and I imagine she's enjoying catching up with friends and seeing the sights before heading off to Barcelona next week. She's a very capable young woman. The year before last she spent part of her gap year working for an NGO in Banda Aceh province in Indonesia, teaching school kids in Bahasi Indonesian personal hygiene. No doubt, in time I'll be a recipient of a group-email-as-postcard telling me of her travels. But right now, she's probably too busy having a good time.
Yes, as you know we've heard about the heatwave in the UK and yes, the message I've been hearing is that you're not set up to deal with extreme temperatures.
Summer days where I used to live in central Victoria regularly climbed above 40 deg C. I have to admit, I'm not a big fan of hot weather.
Cheers
Ben
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“No lists of things to be done. The day providential to itself. The hour. There is no later. This is later. All things of grace and beauty such that one holds them to one's heart have a common provenance in pain. Their birth in grief and ashes.”
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Learn this from the waters:
in mountain clefts and chasms,
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- Cormac McCarthy, The Road
Learn this from the waters:
in mountain clefts and chasms,
loud gush the streamlets,
but great rivers flow silently.
- Sutta Nipata 3.725
Compassionate Hands Foundation (Buddhist aid in Myanmar) • Buddhist Global Relief • UNHCR
e: [email protected]..
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Maryland... United States. But I'm a dual citizen of the USA and the UK, because I was born in America and my mother is American, but my father is British and had me registered there.Stefan wrote:Select the region or country where you originally come from.
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Greetings Individual,
That's handy... especially nowadays how that access extends to the EU.
Metta,
Retro.
That's handy... especially nowadays how that access extends to the EU.
Metta,
Retro.
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Re: Where are you from?
My understanding is that if you go back far enough, we're all Africans!woini wrote:(Ethiopia)
Yay ! Africa is on the list !
Am I the only African here ?
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Born in Calcutta, brought up in Gaya, India.
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Re: Where are you from?
AdvaitaJ wrote: My understanding is that if you go back far enough, we're all Africans!
If human history is put in a 24 hour time slot with present day as midnight, humans (some of you guys anyway) left Africa 85,000 years ago or at the hour of 11:36 pm only 24 minutes before midnight.
I left in 1980.
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Hi stefan, I'm from Asia
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Portugal here
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No Samsaraland? Ok, so i choose Europe (Spain) currently living in Thailand
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Combustion and vibration. Home, sweet home.
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Wooo Canada
also have a Polish passport
also have a Polish passport
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Re: Where are you from?
I live in England, its in the Uk
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Just humour us Brits...
We know we are European really but sometimes when we have to admit it we hear 'Jerusalem' playing in our heads and sulk.
Must be all that 'mid- day sun' :cookoo:
We know we are European really but sometimes when we have to admit it we hear 'Jerusalem' playing in our heads and sulk.
Must be all that 'mid- day sun' :cookoo:
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You speak for yourself msmedusa. As far as I am concerned I am a Scot. Europe starts at Calais. Or possibly Carlisle. It must be irritating to our French and German neighbours, they must feel like they are herding cats.
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Huh, PeterB, say that to my face you Scots haggis-eater you ! We geordies and north easterners don't consider ourselves European, we're a completely separate race !As far as I am concerned I am a Scot. Europe starts at Calais. Or possibly Carlise