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The Weekly Ramble from Malawi: “Jer-ry! Jer-ry! Jer-ry!”
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The Weekly Ramble from Malawi. Thursday, March 09, 2006. This week’s Ramble feels like it hasn’t slept since Monday. I spent most of Monday and Tuesday alternating between wild optimism about Milan’s chances and profound depression about the same. Come Wednesday night, would we see the Milan that played Juventus off the park or the one that wilted 3-0 to Palermo? Anyone who’s been to The Daily Hairdryer. If you haven’t, why not? Donors love to talk about capacity. ‘No, we can’t fund that; you don’t h...
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The Weekly Ramble from Malawi: May 2006
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The Weekly Ramble from Malawi. Sunday, May 28, 2006. A long time ago, in a Government far, far away. This week’s Ramble would like to stress that he is not a Star Wars fan (particularly when referring to the spectacularly bad trilogy of the boring that was recently completed). I remember, not fifteen years ago, we had them every month, and they worked very well’. Was it the rapid improvement of our neighbours, or did we regress? Posted by the Maradona of Malawi at 6:36 PM. Saturday, May 20, 2006. One und...
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The Weekly Ramble from Malawi: April 2006
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The Weekly Ramble from Malawi. Wednesday, April 26, 2006. There’s nothing on the top but a bucket and a mop, and an illustrated book about birds. Zomba was eventful: very relaxed, but at the same time depressing and at one point profoundly terrifying. Posted by the Maradona of Malawi at 8:07 PM. Thursday, April 13, 2006. The Curious Incident of the Blog in the Night-Time. It began to cause me more and more anxiety. Firstly, I was beginning to get jealous of the globe-trotting ways of. Now, none of my col...
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The Weekly Ramble from Malawi: Don't Worry, Be Happy...
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The Weekly Ramble from Malawi. Sunday, July 22, 2007. Don't Worry, Be Happy. The Ramble apologises profusely, yet again, for undue tardiness. I’d blame ‘circumstances’ once more, but a man must take responsibility for his inaction. I’ve been busy at work, and The. Posted by the Maradona of Malawi at 10:22 PM. The Maradona of Malawi. So Where to start? View my complete profile. What is to be done? Ldquo;I think it’s turning back around… and I don’t thi. A Fistful of Dollars. For a Few Dollars More.
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The Weekly Ramble from Malawi: February 2006
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The Weekly Ramble from Malawi. Thursday, February 23, 2006. No, man, it’s not L.A. Having been relieved of his shoes, phone and, bizarrely, tie, he ran the distance to my house, from where we called the police and an ambulance. Even the policeman realised that Cantona had nothing to do with it, though he still gave him a pretty vigorous interrogation. I’d call the cop Columbo. The whole thing is, as my colleague described it, ‘a total fucker’. Fortunately, work continues to make up for such bad luck....
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The Weekly Ramble from Malawi: November 2005
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The Weekly Ramble from Malawi. Wednesday, November 30, 2005. A Big Black Cloud Come! A prize to anyone who gets this week's titular reference. Or maybe that’s just how things seem to me. The project I’m working on seems to be making enough progress to have a tangible effect on our most important set of IMF targets, and this is no small event. Failure to meet these targets could seriously damage the economy by preventing us from accessing millions of dollars of debt relief. With Snowball will cheer me up.
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The Weekly Ramble from Malawi: March 2006
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The Weekly Ramble from Malawi. Thursday, March 30, 2006. This week’s Ramble begins with a literary reference. Now, I know you’re all well acquainted with 19th Century Russian literature, so I’ll be brief. Oblomov is the titular character of a novel by Ivan Gonchorov. Without giving too much away, he’s lazy, incompetent and knows it. And, of course, he’s a civil servant. Does every workplace have someone like this wasting space? And you know, it’s just a bloody Toyota Corolla! Think of the children! Apolo...
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The Weekly Ramble from Malawi: December 2005
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The Weekly Ramble from Malawi. Tuesday, December 27, 2005. I tawt I taw a puddy tat. This week’s blog takes an ornithological theme, so if, like Snowball, you can’t tell Kingfisher from the Fisher King and have no desire to, I’d suggest you look away. Just got back from five amazing days in Liwonde National Park, staying at Mvuu Camp. My eight hundred page guide to the birds of Southern Africa rarely left my side. A much edited list of the sixty-plus species we spotted (I’d link pictures, but its bee...