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Valentine's Day 2013

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Thought I'd share this because it is the end of  Valentine's Day 2013 I felt it in my fingers I felt it in my toes  we were rising  this evening at Lipton's Circus Colombo.. and it showed....

on blogging....

Our communications colleagues are urging us to write blogs... and of course Duncan Green’s OxfamBlog from Poverty to Power, shows us how it can be done, effectively and usefully for the reader.  I follow Duncan avidly while marvelling how a single person can be so widely read, so connected and with such a pulse on what is going on, at least what is going on in the UK’s international development scene.  I’d like to think that he has an army of junior Oxfam volunteers feeding him stuff, and that he has infinite time on his hands because his private life is sad and lonely – though the sense of humour and slight self-deprecation suggests otherwise.  Other bloggers maybe equally prolific e.g. Enrique Mendizabal on  onthinktanks ... but am not sure all his blogs are as grounded and relevant to us readers, some are extremely perspicacious, while others tend to ramble, the posts tend to be serious, with none of Duncan-type humour.  As for me,  I am not likely to forget our own IT guru, San