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Written by Bridie O'Donnell
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Wednesday, 28 April 2010 16:18 |
On 25th April 1914, thousands of Australian and New Zealand soldiers were charged with a suicide mission on the beaches of Gallipoli. On the same day in 1945, Italy was freed from Mussolini's Italian Social Republic by the Italian resistance movement, and my post office ladies gave him evils until he topped himself.
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Written by Bridie O'Donnell
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Tuesday, 13 April 2010 21:02 |
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Always be the second doctor at an arrest. That's what I learnt in my intern year. Basically, as a junior doctor, you don't want to be telling any nurses, other doctors or even cleaners how to do their job. Working overnight on ward-call, I attended many cardiac arrests, and they were so bloody stressful that one never remembers anything.
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Nuovo bici, senza mechanico |
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Written by Bridie O'Donnell
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Friday, 26 March 2010 21:48 |
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Me and the Russian* we have a lot in common.
We both like Lily Allen. We have Italian as our second language (except she speaks a little English, and my Russian is worse than western wodka). And we both have little diagrams of our road bike measurements, so that when we arrive in a new country, to ride for a new team, on a new bike, all is not lost.
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Written by Bridie O'Donnell
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Wednesday, 21 April 2010 07:10 |
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Waiting.....The action of staying where one is or delaying action until a particular time or until something else happens. It's all we do here in Europe, and it's the not-so-silent killer of the human spirit.
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Buona Pasqua to you, too! |
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Written by Bridie O'Donnell
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Sunday, 04 April 2010 20:52 |
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It was more than 3h into the legendary Tour of Flanders, and I was finally having fun.
We had reached the infamous Kapelmuur, a cobbled climb starting in a village and reaching a lovely little church at the top. It has pitches at 20% and is the point
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Written by Bridie O'Donnell
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Monday, 22 March 2010 18:56 |
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The word soigneur comes from the French word meaning 'healer'. The role is usually a bachelor degree in massage with minors in psychology, mediation, listening, food preparation, diplomacy and nursing.
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