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February 17 still aliveyes we are. despite disappearing from this page for weeks on end, we are here. all is well athough it goes without saying that we have both been exceptionally busy. ben is growing like kiwifruit requiring jenny to learn circular breathing just to find time to do so at all while our son does what all little boys must. our friend rebekah is here with us these days. she came with us to oman today. it's special up there. the way the mountains land in the sea, or nearly, leaving a carribean style slither of white beach from ras al khaimah to khasab and beyond. ben loves it there too. the people who look and smile at him. the parks. the picnic in the car. everything. i love it for the same reasons. last weekend i ran from the supermarket to the mosque. i did so because i was the team captain for a group of us taking part in the first ras al khaimah marathon. i ran five kay and took less than twenty five minutes to do so. the whole day made me feel very contented.
i continue to ride my skateboard. i broke another one just the other day. how? why? what? i wish i knew (actually it was a gnarly ollie over a lengthwise wheelie bin down a drop). still, it has been replaced already and hopefully this one will last longer than its ancestors.
while in dubai yesterday we bought two packets of swim nappies, pork and tickets for the iron maiden/prodigy concert in march. i am stoked. they are playing as part of the desert rock festival. having never owned an album of either of the top acts i wonder why i am going. having confessed a midlife crisis to my wife the other day (recently: still skateboarding, purchase of doc martens, tickets to iron maiden) i was reminded that such behaviours are only indicitive of a mlc if they are out of the blue rather than a continuation of normal activities. this consoled me.
i've signed another two year contract so we'll be out here for a little while yet and with a planned trip home again this july, we hope to see many of you for real. |
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