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Technical difficulties
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
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
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
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
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
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)
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
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)
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)
[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
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...
Book Description
These diaries are a continuation of the one’s I had on OpenDiary (OD). I am a lawyer living in inner Melbourne in early middle age and, being still pathetically single, have some of the baggage that entails. I work on a penthouse floor of a large skyscraper in the centre of the city, but at present my job is under threat so there may be some relocation in the near future. I travel a bit, and my OD entries dealt a lot with travels in the Asian world (the Himalayas, Uzbekistan, Korea, China).
