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Oct 18

Frozen flower
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Good news

Visit Finland crew are battling ferocious depressions in Southern Ocean, while I am curling in front of a fireplace with books, tea and tissues. The autumn flu season has arrived with the frosty temperatures outdoors.

My fractured wrist bones are now stronger than ever, based on radiographs taken today. From now on I can put more load on the wrist at the gym and also ignore minor pains. It has been tricky to exercise the wrist when I haven’t been completely sure about the nature of the sharp pain with long term throbbing dullness in it, which paradoxically emerges when exercising too much or too little. In my worst nightmares the fractured bones have broken loose and grinding against each other like in a hand-sized meat maracas. This is not the case – I repeat – my wrist is solid. Read more

Sep 25

Wrist fracture
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Anatomy of idleness

A friend taught me how to slip correctly, more accurately avoiding breaking any wrist bones (as they are notoriously slow to mend).

“Just huddle your arms close to your body whilst falling, then hit the ground and crack a rib. They cannot put ribs in cast, so you could have carried on with the race.” he said. This friend is a qualified medical practitioner. A new lesson learnt, it is preferable to choose damage that does not interfere with the activity, unless of course the said rib punctures a lung, in which case the injury might be an issue for general well-being.

Faced with at least three more weeks of idleness in a small Finnish town, I wish having cracked a rib instead and currently soldering on across Southern Atlantic towards Cape Town with team mates. “What is worth a full fridgeful of fresh food, steady king-sized bed or modern comforts, if you don’t feel alive? I’d rather be cold, wet and eating tinned cat food every day on board with you guys.”I lamented in Rio while packing my kit. “That’s because you’re crazy” Greg suggested. Read more

Jan 9

library-1
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Book sale!

Just half a year ago my departure from London was more an abstract thought than something to act on. Now it’s less than 3 months to the D-day, and so I have already given up the attempts to organise piles of books, art equipment and other knickknacks at home. They all will be purged in due course within 1-2 months. As books are the most difficult items to sell, I’ve listed them online so that as many as possible would find a new owner. At this stage I do not have time to list them on Amazon Marketplace (sales on demand rather than by calendar time limit), Ebay is not the place to sell books, and second hand book dealers are the last option. I’ve got lots of lovely books that are great inspiration for designers, artists, kids and daydreamers. Read more