Monthly Archives: December 2010

Positive Poverty – Lead me not into Temptation

December 21, 2010

What is positive poverty I hear you ask?  An ace way of living your life. I reply. The idea is you have just enough to get by and don’t have to worry about building up an asset portfolio as you have  no cash to purchase ‘wants’. Obviously it is a nice western idea of poverty cos I am pretty sure those people stuck in the slums aren’t calling it...

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Positive Poverty – Lead me not into Temptation

December 21, 2010

What is positive poverty I hear you ask?  An ace way of living your life. I reply. The idea is you have just enough to get by and don’t have to worry about building up an asset portfolio as you have  no cash to purchase ‘wants’. Obviously it is a nice western idea of poverty cos I am pretty sure those people stuck in the slums aren’t calling it...

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Hiding in the bushes was a watchful pair of eyes..

December 14, 2010

The Lost Islands!!! Remember this genius programme?? It was on after school in the late 70’s early 80’s. I LOVED it. This, coupled with the brainwashing of Casey Casum, is the reason that a lady from a land-locked PNorth  is going sailing. Oh yeah.. sing along… “hiding in the bushes was a watchful pair of eyes.” “There once was a wealthy man who had a wonderful idea, to bring...

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Rimutaka Incline

December 4, 2010
Rimutaka Incline

Yeeeeehaaaa! I knocked the bugger off!!  Not quite Sir Ed but I ran 18km over the Rimutaka Incline. 10km up a freaking hill and amazingly, 8km down the hill.  It is not even half a marathon but it I have been lifting weights and balancing on balls and jogging up hills and swimming in pools all in preparation for the big sailing adventure and this puppy is the top of endurance-o-thon so far. In...

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6. Mrs Hempel: The street style shark jump

Sunday June 3 2012 Brooklyn,  NYC Disclaimer! Disclaimer! I’m iffy about ‘street style’.* It was 12 months ago that I started to hate Scott...

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11. Mrs Hempel: The Shoe Porn One

Weird Scenes Inside the Goldmine: the Bergdorf-Goodman shoe sale.   Friday June 9 2012 Brooklyn,  NYC Where has the week – and too much...

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