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	<description>a piercing whistle of pure joie de vivre</description>
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		<title>a dozen-odd things that you might like, if you were me</title>
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Sanjay Patel&#8217;s Ramayana: Divine Loophole (he&#8217;s the Pixar animator who also did the totally cute Little Book of Hindu Deities)
Gama-go&#8217;s poppy tee
Jeremy, who gave me both for my birthday
Leo the taxi driver, who brought back my wallet, CONTAINING MY GREEN CARD, after I left it in his taxi; and who laughingly refused any kind of [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.yatima.org/archives/2010/03/02/a-dozen-odd-things-that-you-might-like-if-you-were-me/</link>
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		<title>tenth wedding anniversary</title>
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Me

Originally uploaded by Goop on the lens


If we could stay married for ever, that would be cool with me.

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		<link>http://www.yatima.org/archives/2010/02/25/tenth-wedding-anniversary/</link>
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		<title>too tired to blog in full</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Epic, unforgettable birthday weekend. If 39 continues as it began I shall be a hollow shell of a woman by forty.
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		<link>http://www.yatima.org/archives/2010/02/21/too-tired-to-blog-in-full/</link>
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		<title>the big three nine</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Happy birthday to me! Against all likelihood I have turned out to be a happy and useful sort of person; who would have thought? Mad props are obviously due to my mum:

Down through the years my sweet mother never failed me
Held me close to her heart as she taught me to aim high
Lifted me up [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.yatima.org/archives/2010/02/19/happy-birthday-to-me-2/</link>
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		<title>dreaming</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Just a fragment, really, hopelessly idealized, I mean really, a meadow beside a waterfall, there might as well have been Tom Selleck and a sandwich. What the fragment was really of though was the sunlight shining on, indeed reflecting off, a side view of his white ass and thighs that were always his best features [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.yatima.org/archives/2010/02/18/dreaming/</link>
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		<title>things the parenting books don&#8217;t mention</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Before I had children I used to imagine them, what kind of mother I would be, how much I would love them. Now, most days, at some random moment or other, my thoughts come to rest on my daughters and I am knocked backwards with delight.
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		<link>http://www.yatima.org/archives/2010/02/16/things-the-parenting-books-dont-mention/</link>
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		<title>no wonder i am always sleepy</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Yesterday I sort of oozed out of bed, made Claire&#8217;s lunch, kissed everyone and drove down to the barn for a fairly amazing lesson with Erika on Scottie. We did have a couple of moments in the flatwork where I was riding him off my leg and he chewed the bit thoughtfully and then collected [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.yatima.org/archives/2010/02/13/no-wonder-i-am-always-sleepy/</link>
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		<title>he made gaga&#8217;s lobster shoes for bad romance</title>
		<description><![CDATA[God knows I am no fashion maven rather the reverse, but news and alarms of Alexander McQueen&#8217;s awesome vision had made its way even to dorky tshirt-and-Levis-and-farmboots land where I live. I&#8217;m slammed and silenced by his death. I can&#8217;t say it any better than Jennifer Michael Hecht:
Know that the rest of us know that [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.yatima.org/archives/2010/02/11/he-made-gagas-lobster-shoes-for-bad-romance/</link>
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		<title>weekend in scotland</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I had two lessons this weekend, both on tall dark handsome Scottie. Here&#8217;s a video of him jumping at Woodside a couple of years ago. Note that lovely cadenced canter. Note also his serene confidence and unruffled calm. The rockinghorse canter is still in place and a big part of the delight that is the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.yatima.org/archives/2010/02/08/weekend-in-scotland/</link>
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		<title>scottie the brave</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Yesterday I rode for the first time in five weeks. Low expectations are my friend! I assumed that I would fall off and be crushed to death beneath Scottie&#8217;s iron-shod hooves, so I was quite pleased when instead I managed to more or less keep up with the-other-Erin and Sarah, who are very good, and [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.yatima.org/archives/2010/02/01/scottie-the-brave/</link>
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		<title>twitter as productivity app</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Q: But can the iPad handle my Wii?
A: Depends.
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		<link>http://www.yatima.org/archives/2010/01/27/twitter-as-productivity-app/</link>
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		<title>time is a traveller</title>
		<description><![CDATA[San Francisco looks ugly and squalid after Sydney, especially around the 101/280 interchange coming back from the airport, especially in the rain. I was glad to be back in California anyway, even if I am missing the fire-opal water at Shark Beach and schmoopily watching grainy videos of Peter Allen singing &#8220;Tenterfield Saddler.&#8221; Happy Australia [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.yatima.org/archives/2010/01/26/time-is-a-traveller/</link>
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		<title>claire dancing</title>
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She&#8217;s the turquoise blob in the middle :)
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		<link>http://www.yatima.org/archives/2010/01/21/claire-dancing/</link>
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		<title>bad news week</title>
		<description><![CDATA[My God. I turn my back on this hemisphere for, like, five minutes, and they flatten a country, flood California, abandon desperately-needed health care reform and sell democracy to the highest bidder. What the fuck, Americas?
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		<link>http://www.yatima.org/archives/2010/01/21/bad-news-week/</link>
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		<title>you will know california by its organic produce aisles</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Back in San Francisco, still under the tidal influence of Janny&#8217;s excellent cooking. We had a proper Janny-style lunch of smoked salmon and capers, pugliese, spinach and avocado salad, raw carrots and tomatoes. The lashings of tea was our own innovation. Dinner was steak panfried and cut against the grain, with steamed peas, corn and [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.yatima.org/archives/2010/01/18/you-will-know-california-by-its-organic-produce-aisles/</link>
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		<title>clancy the rains are coming</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This morning was the second last time I woke in the bedroom with the glass wall, listening to the lorikeets screaming in the trees outside. The second last time I showered in the downstairs bathroom with the sunlight shining through the bricks. The second last time it all reminded me of my wedding day.
I don&#8217;t [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.yatima.org/archives/2010/01/17/clancy-the-rains-are-coming/</link>
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		<title>ready to go home</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s been an amazing trip, basically a very good Patrick White novel come to life. I won&#8217;t forget having coffee with Aly at the Brisbane port cafe, watching container trucks plough through the wetlands like a Jeffrey Smart painting in reverse. I won&#8217;t forget seeing Barbie and Ron again, or saying goodbye to David. Egg [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.yatima.org/archives/2010/01/15/ready-to-go-home/</link>
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		<title>mawwiage</title>
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		<link>http://www.yatima.org/archives/2010/01/13/mawwiage/</link>
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		<title>happiness</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Every chance we get we&#8217;ve been sneaking down to Nielsen Park. The turquoise sky, the liquid sun. On Sunday I collected seaglass, green, brown and opal. Today the water was turbulent, the diffraction grating of the Heads sending big waves into shore. In shoulder-deep water I clung to Jeremy and kissed his salty neck, thirteen [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.yatima.org/archives/2010/01/12/happiness-3/</link>
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		<title>forgot to mention</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The Observatory was a highly educational experience. In the bathrooms:
Julia: Are mutants really real?
Me: Oh yes. Not like in Futurama, living in the sewer, but there are lots of mutant frogs, for example.
Julia: What do they look like?
Me: The frogs? Oh, they might have an extra eye or an extra leg.
Woman coming through the door: [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.yatima.org/archives/2010/01/10/forgot-to-mention/</link>
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		<title>and i sang, &#8220;julia&#8217;s uncle has laser beams!&#8221;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[We have been having the grandest adventures. Lunch and a swim at Barraba Station. The moons of Jupiter at the Sydney Observatory, on the 400th anniversary of their discovery. Tonight we bundled the children off to Hyde Park, well after bedtime, to the consternation of our taxi driver. The capoeira and circus performances would have [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.yatima.org/archives/2010/01/09/and-i-sang-julias-uncle-has-laser-beams/</link>
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		<title>back in sydney</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Every time I say goodbye to my mum and dad it feels more and more like ripping myself in half.
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		<link>http://www.yatima.org/archives/2010/01/07/back-in-sydney/</link>
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		<title>polaroids of barraba</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A long plastic fringe as a flyscreen in front of a milk bar. Endless afternoons at the swimming pool. Christmas cake with marzipan and icing. A bruise-coloured cloud cracked by a bolt of lightning. Covert glasses of Baileys in our hotel room.
It is the Australia I remember from my childhood.
&#8212;&#8211;
With its art deco style and [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.yatima.org/archives/2010/01/05/polaroids-of-barraba/</link>
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		<title>mama</title>
		<description><![CDATA[



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		<link>http://www.yatima.org/archives/2010/01/02/mama/</link>
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		<title>family dinner at the playhouse hotel</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The weather cleared in the afternoon and Barraba was a vast green bowl full of sunshine. Claire and Julia wore their Thanksgiving frocks. I wore the black dress I got from Jan, the ruby necklace I got from Mum, the pink pearls Jeremy gave me after Claire was born and the silver ring that Richard [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.yatima.org/archives/2010/01/02/family-dinner-at-the-playhouse-hotel/</link>
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		<title>to get here, you go very far, then turn left and drive for an hour</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Lamb roast on our last NYE at Cooper Park Road; fireworks; early to bed. Julia was ill all night and I slept, very badly, beside her. Up to write a book review and pack and zoom to the airport and jump in the absurd little turbo prop plane to Tamworth, where we found my Dad, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.yatima.org/archives/2010/01/01/to-get-here-you-go-very-far-then-turn-left-and-drive-for-an-hour/</link>
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		<title>no one seemed unduly perturbed</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It only took us four years to get around to filing for Julia&#8217;s Australian citizenship. The whole experience was as absurdly pleasant as if we were in Canada. When we parked the car near Central Station, a man who was just leaving gave us his parking ticket, still valid for an hour. Everyone in Citizenship [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.yatima.org/archives/2009/12/29/no-one-seemed-unduly-perturbed/</link>
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		<title>beach</title>
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Hat

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		<link>http://www.yatima.org/archives/2009/12/29/beach/</link>
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		<title>the beauchamp, the burdekin, the beresford</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I was in a foul mood driving up to the farm and couldn&#8217;t figure out why until Jeremy suggested that maybe, just maybe it had something to do with the fact that my pony had died? And while it doesn&#8217;t actually change anything, even stating the root cause in unambiguous words does seem to make [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.yatima.org/archives/2009/12/27/the-beauchamp-the-burdekin-the-beresford/</link>
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		<title>i&#8217;ll eat you up, i love you so</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Decentish flight. The girls were awesome and Julia in particular completely won the heart of a 20something Turkish? Lebanese? guy sitting across from her. I watched Samson and Delilah, the first feature by an indigenous director to earn more than $1m. Wrenching, luminous. We emerged blinking into an overcast Sydney Christmas morning and I drove [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.yatima.org/archives/2009/12/25/ill-eat-you-up-i-love-you-so/</link>
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		<title>taking flight</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Enormous mood oscillations as we run the last few errands and try to pack for Australia without leaving the apartment in its customary shambles. I&#8217;m going to miss you all, right down to the mean old cat.
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		<link>http://www.yatima.org/archives/2009/12/23/taking-flight/</link>
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		<title>by satellite, by satellite, by satellite</title>
		<description><![CDATA[If you go to flummery.org and scroll down to Handlebars, which is right now the second on the list, you&#8217;ll see the awesome inspiration for yesterday&#8217;s gloom. It&#8217;s a portrait of the Tenth Doctor as the lonely trickster God, getting increasingly out of control. It got me thinking about how the Doctor is in some [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.yatima.org/archives/2009/12/22/by-satellite-by-satellite-by-satellite/</link>
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		<title>power and pragmatism</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In some ways it&#8217;s more painful to live under the Obama administration than under Bush. You seriously never thought you&#8217;d hear me say that, did you? It&#8217;s impossible, however, to avoid the conclusion, if you sit down and look at this botch of a health care bill &#8211; women and children thrown under the bus [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.yatima.org/archives/2009/12/21/power-and-pragmatism/</link>
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		<title>christmas came early</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Epic days these days usually have a substantial barn component; today was barnier than most. Erin was giving us a dressage lesson and Toni rode past to report that whoever was supposed to ride Bella hadn&#8217;t turned up, and that Bella would need to be ridden.
&#8220;I&#8217;ll ride her,&#8221; I said cheerfully. Toni and Erin looked [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.yatima.org/archives/2009/12/20/christmas-came-early/</link>
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		<title>julia&#8217;s ballet teacher has good taste in music</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The set list:

We Are Family
Dream a Little Dream
Locomotion
I said: &#8220;You like &#8216;We Are Family&#8217;? You&#8217;re gonna love &#8216;I Feel Love.&#8217;&#8221;
Julia said: &#8220;I can&#8217;t stop dancing! This is the BEST SONG EVER.&#8221;
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		<link>http://www.yatima.org/archives/2009/12/19/julias-ballet-teacher-has-good-taste-in-music/</link>
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		<title>millennials</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s no secret how I felt about this decade geopolitically; a decade that started with massive election fraud (not that liar Lieberman would have been a better VP than Cheney), that devolved into state-sponsored mayhem and murder, that saw the ocean rise up and swallow a quarter of a million people and flood one of [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.yatima.org/archives/2009/12/18/millennials/</link>
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		<title>bukes of the year</title>
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Offshore
Laugh out loud mordant.
Mary Olivier: A Life
I can&#8217;t imagine why this perceptive, penetrating novel isn&#8217;t considered a modern classic.
Of Human Bondage
This is, of course, and God knows why it took me so long to read it. It&#8217;s wonderful. I am looking forward to everything else by Maugham.
The Aquariums of Pyongyang
Included not so much for its [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.yatima.org/archives/2009/12/17/bukes-of-the-year-2/</link>
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		<title>a serviceable paradise</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I finally made it over to the new Blue Bottle Coffee location near work, for yogurt parfait and New Orleans iced coffee. It&#8217;s a stunning place, all blond wood and huge windows, just like my idealized typical Sydney cafe. Idealized Sydney is awesome; the food is incredible and there are no cockroaches and everyone is [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.yatima.org/archives/2009/12/16/a-serviceable-paradise/</link>
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		<title>another cheering thing</title>
		<description><![CDATA[&#8230;is to try to host a small dinner for Optimal Husband on the occasion of his birthday, and to have it pack out the beautiful back room at a favourite local restaurant, and to look up the table at our friends&#8217; faces bathed in candlelight and to be amazed all over again at how smart [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.yatima.org/archives/2009/12/14/another-cheering-thing/</link>
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		<title>the gift</title>
		<description><![CDATA[As you can probably tell I&#8217;ve been having kind of a hard time lately, and I dragged myself out of bed before dawn this morning wishing I could just stay snuggled under the covers with Jeremy and Jules. I drove down to the barn thinking about how little progress I&#8217;ve been making in all areas [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.yatima.org/archives/2009/12/11/the-gift/</link>
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