“Now there’s a second Rikako Ikee – the leukemia survivor. I’m now capable of empathising with so many people. The very fact that I’m alive is in itself an immense experience.”
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Travel
Pondering a post-batch 210102 visit to Mauritius
Today, my eye has alighted on Mauritius, all 2,040 sq kilometres of its loveliness perched out there alone in the Indian Ocean. I reckon I could be there in around 9 hours and 45 minutes.
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Travel
No shot in the arm but a stab in the heart
Now, as with so many others around the globe, my plans are – unlike me – up in the air. It sucks but to stay with that not particularly attractive verb, one just has to suck it up.
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People
Arise Sunil Tuli, man of steel
Unless Sunil’s own extreme magnetism sets off the airport metal detector, the titanium plate will not.
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Lifestyle
“Travel Retail Safe – I’ve been vaccinated”
As a confirmed trypanophobic (someone who fears needles), I have never looked forward to nor enjoyed an injection (yes, it’s true) so much in my life. Heck, I can’t wait to get back to the place 21 days hence.
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People
Giving the all-clear to a new form of frontline face mask
“I lip-read a lot and I watch people’s mouths. So when people have masks on, I can’t lip-read. I have to say, ‘Please can you stand back and take off your mask’ because it’s impossible.”
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Miscellaneous
Down with doomscrolling and in with Inspirescrolling on International Women’s Day
There are plenty of positive stories if you know where to look for them and both want and know how to write them.
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Lifestyle
Stepping lightly into another half-decade
Half time goes by/Suddenly you’re wise/Another blink of an eye/Sixty-four is gone.
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Lifestyle
Blooming and flying symbols of optimism
Just as the Bauhinia blakeana flowers in winter so, eventually, will our industry bloom out of darkness.
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Lifestyle
So we beat on, boats against the current
“So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.” I often cite the words of Nick Carraway, the narrator in The Great Gatsby, but never have they seemed more apposite than they do at this point in mankind’s history.
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Events
Getting rid of the rat and riding with the Ox
“The ox, in Chinese culture, is a hardworking zodiac sign. It usually signifies movements so, hopefully, the world will be less static than last year and get moving again in the second half of the year.”
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Events
How the Whirlwind Walsh World Tour will send a terminally ill child on the trip of a lifetime
The Walshes are taking part in what’s been dubbed ‘The World Tour’ for Dreamflight this month. They will virtually travel (walking and cycling) some 44,000 kms to circumnavigate the globe without leaving home.
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Lifestyle
Move over Moxie and Martin, your body double is in town
Courtesy of Kelly and Kiehl’s, and with both Moxie and the real Martin now having a body double in place, I’ll surely scale what had seemed not just a hill but a whole mountain range.