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Technical difficulties in Melbourne Diaries
This’ll be short by necessity. I haven’t updated entries recently because of a difficulty between Prosebox and my web browser. Only my smartphone is capable of logging onto the site. Typing an en...
Update in Melbourne Diaries
Finishing up at work just before the public holiday, and nothing much to do. Sent off yet another job application this morning, having turned down an offer for a relatively lousy job on Tuesday. ...
Cutbacks and purges in Melbourne Diaries
What's happening at work is becoming clearer day by day, and it's not a pretty picture. The axe won't fall on me (if at all) until around June, but it's emerged that the changes are more than the...
Brighton in Melbourne Diaries
I thought I’d write something about the suburb of Brighton in Melbourne, where I currently live. I write about various overseas locations from time to time but Brighton is in itself a fairly uniq...
3/3/2014 in Melbourne Diaries
A dreadful last week. On Thursday, the news came through that the agency I work for would be abolished, with its functions merged into the parent Department. This means job cuts and a possible mo...
Travel Diary - Taj Mahal and other stuff - India in Melbourne Diaries
It’s hard to write about a travel superlative like the Taj Mahal. There is a tendency on the one hand to inflate your experience with purple prose until it matches consensus; on the other, you’re...
Travel diaries - Markha valley trek (last bit) in Melbourne Diaries
We wake up at early morning, and it’s immediately clear that the weather is taking a turn for the worse, with low, threatening clouds building up in the distance. This next leg, moreover, is supp...
Travel diary - India - Markha valley in Melbourne Diaries
The next couple of days are a comparatively relaxed stroll beside the Markha river. It’s another popular trekking area, and more groups are sighted. There’s a lone Indian trekker with an 80s styl...
Travel entry - Indian Himalayas (Rumbak to Yurutse) in Melbourne Diaries
The next day takes us past the small town of Yurutse, and is again a fairly undemanding leg. The valley widens out into a dusty, bowl-shaped expanse, and I’m passing numerous horse graves and stu...
Trekking in the Indian Himalayas (pt 1) in Melbourne Diaries
[Carried over from my earlier Open Diary Indian travel entries.] The next few entries concern trekking in the Indian Himalayas, which are the slightly unfashionable middle spread of the grandest...
30 January 2014 in Melbourne Diaries
After a few weeks of deceptive tedium, work has suddenly gotten very stressful again. Without disclosing too much, some self-proclaimed genius in another agency has decided to restructure us radi...
