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In which I venture out into an arctic tern colony with a camera and a Flip

June 9, 2010

The weather has been amazing here these last couple of days, although today it is “thickening up” as the Icelanders say. With any luck we’ll have rain tomorrow, help bind some of the ash from the eruption. A couple of days ago I took my camera and my Flip recorder out to Grótta, which is [...]

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Off to Brussels on important business

May 24, 2010

Tomorrow I’m heading to Brussels along with 12 other journos and bloggers to have a gander around the European Union headquarters. As many of you will know, Iceland has made a bid to join the EU and accession talks are set to begin soon. I suppose this visit is standard procedure in such cases — [...]

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In the company of giants

March 16, 2010

Later this week, I’m heading over to Stockholm to be a guest at the annual conference of the Association of Swedish Investigative Journalists, called Gräv. It is similar to the Norwegian conference SKUP where I was a guest last year. I’m delighted and flattered, of course, and also very much looking forward to meeting the [...]

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How to cook whale and other pressing concerns

March 9, 2010

My friend Eamonn Fitzgerald, a fellow blogger on the THINK initiative, has a wee interview with me today on his blog, taken the day after the Icesave referendum. What’s the “morning-after-feeling” like? Apprehension? Elation? Gloom? Party time? “No change, really. The referendum was kind of pointless because the deal that was being voted on was [...]

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Feelgood song, redux

May 3, 2009

So EPI’s listening club had its annual gala dinner last Friday night and as you may recall the theme of the evening was “a song that makes you feel good.” I loved the fact that so many of you made suggestions, although in all honesty I have not had time to listen to them all [...]

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On the radio

February 12, 2009

A longtime reader, Don, was kind enough to post this to the forums a couple of days ago, but I wanted to wait until I had a chance to review it before I posted it on the blog, in case I came across like a complete moron. In which case, obviously, I would have made [...]

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Sweet dreams

September 8, 2008

You know how you sometimes have a dream that stays right there with you for the entire day afterward, and you keep having flashes of it and the feelings it evoked? I had one of those dreams last night. I was back in an apartment that I lived in when I was a little girl. [...]

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A long post about me.me

May 31, 2007

YT is not a big fan of memes, but this one that’s been making the rounds in the blogsphere kind of has me intrigued. I first saw it over on V’s blog, then on Rozanne’s, and when she offered to craft questions for anyone who was interested, I raised my proverbial hand and went, ‘mememememe!’ [...]

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From the mouths of babes

April 28, 2007

Hey, so, last week I get this email, right? And it’s from this guy named Andrew with this email address that starts with ‘wellhungover’ and then the @ and I’ll saynomore. And he works for, like, this big London newspaper, and I won’t name any names? But it’s a broadsheet and it starts with an [...]

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Untitled

February 6, 2007

Two days ago, my mother passed away. Last summer in July, when we visited Canada, she was slated to go in for an operation to remove a tumor in her abdomen. It was a large tumor that had grown rapidly, and for that reason the doctors felt it was most likely benign. The day we [...]

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