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		<title>Heart of Lightness</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Since my last blog I have left the familiar western serving town of Ubud to live in rural Bali with a Balinese family in their compound. The idea behind this move, for my last five weeks on the island, has been to create a more intensive working schedule with the various programmes I have been [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Bali Dayz</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I was delighted ten days ago to receive the news that I won a small scholarship for the MBA in Corporate Social Responsibility I begin in late September. No doubt they’ll be be happy to know that I have managed to add a little to this stipend today with some small winnings in the local [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Great Slowdown</title>
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Many of us spend our days like zombies on speed, guzzling caffeine, schizo-frenetically multitasking, twittering and fidgeting, and thereby sacrificing what is really a rather brief span on this magnificent ball of madness to the insatiable demands of work, consumption, self-improvement, technological intervention and a future of should’s and shouldn’ts.

After a month or so in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Beware! The Volunteer&#8230;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[There are many hazards in Bali: when riding a bike you may drive into a waft of chilli from a road side restaurant, temporarily blinding you for 10 crucial seconds; you may be bitten by a dengue fever carrying mosquito, snake or mangy dog; you may contract some water-borne disease like Hepatitis A; you may [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A week in pictures</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Due to the time taken to upload pictures I will post my blog at the end of the week&#8230;.in the meantime please see pics below
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		<title>Automatic Moped Diaries Part 2</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Firstly, thank you for all you messages and well wishing.

Working with so many children this last week has reminded me what it is like to be like a child again: Curious, playful,  joyful, playing the fool, simple amusement, lightness and full of wonderment. In fact it is impossible to be serious or heavy here!
Each [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Automatic Moped Diaries</title>
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As I sit at my desk to write this blog I overlook a beautiful valley: 500 meters away is a ridge on which locals (usually women) transport baskets of rice and bricks on their heads like worker ants, Mount Agung, a live volcano, smoulders in the distance and below the Sungai, a river used for [...]]]></description>
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