24Mar 2019

Lancelot’s demise

It is very hard to shake off the reputation I have of being unlucky, when one hour after buying a new car, a truck crashes into you. Yes. Sigh. I was all giddy with excitement on Thursday when I caught the train to the dealership in Fareham from where I bought my car. Why would […]

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24Mar 2019

Truffle hunting in Marche

March 24th, 2019 | Travel

Last weekend, while wearing white jeans, white trainers and a white-ish jumper, you would have found me squatted over rich black soil, burrowing with my bare hands, in the pursuit of black gold. I was on a trip organised by the glorious David Rowan (ex-editor of Wired magazine) called Voyagers, which brought together a group […]

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9Mar 2019

Adopting Lumi

March 9th, 2019 | Puppy adventures

I adopted little Lumi on 19th January, 2019. She was born on 1st November, 2018, so she was 11 weeks when I picked her up. I decided to call her Lumi, because I always loved the name Lumen, a measure of luminescence. And Lumi just fit her better. She was so little. And she was […]

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9Mar 2019

Deciding to buy a dog

March 9th, 2019 | Puppy adventures

I’ve been meaning to get a puppy for a while. I am not alone in feeling immense joy in the presence of a dog’s simple adoring love. While I never had a dog growing up, I lived with a gracious Labrador called Hunter when I lived in a house-share as I started Skimlinks. I would […]

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4Mar 2019

Announcing the launch of Navarland.com! (finally)

March 4th, 2019 | Random musings

When I chose to step down from being Skimlinks’ CEO 11 months ago, one of my (many) goals was to launch a personal website that would achieve a few things: re-publish the “Birth of a Startup” blog I wrote over 11 years ago when I was first starting Skimlinks in my bedroom in Sydney be […]

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