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There she goes, squirreling into the corner of your carry-on.\u00a0 Ready for another adventure.\u00a0 Tucked between a fun floppy hat and the flourescent sun-block, of which she uses plenty, pale creature that she is, Monique is situated to prove to you that a seasoned traveller knows best.\u00a0 Dressed in a curly mohair (so as not to show the wrinkles that betray one new to the jet set) and sporting a pale chiffon scarf – to double as a disquise in those cities where she is already known for her somewhat silly escapades – she seems to wink at you and beckon you along.\u00a0 Forget your cares, but by no means your playing cards, and step lightly into whatever dreams your next voyage should hold for you:\u00a0 let Monique be your guide. \u00a0<\/p>\n
Her very presence alleviates all the maladies brought on by the jostling of trains, the dipping of ships, the swerving of buses and even by the simple fact that you are far from home.\u00a0 For she has discovered the secret to successful travel; with the exception of the luscious few minutes in the X-ray machine, where she delights in making funny faces at the operators searching for more dangerous contents.\u00a0 Monique never looks back.<\/p>\n
Charleen Kinser Designs<\/a> <\/p>\n (With thanks to Carol Dacko for bringing along an interesting dinner companion for my own cuddly friends. Somehow I doubt they’ll ever be the same – she’s terribly sophisticated for my lot!)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" There she goes, squirreling into the corner of your carry-on.\u00a0 Ready for another adventure.\u00a0 Tucked between a fun floppy hat and the flourescent sun-block, of which she uses plenty, pale creature that she is, Monique is situated to prove to you that a seasoned traveller knows best.\u00a0 Dressed in a curly mohair (so as not… Continue reading Hotsos 2010 – Monique<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1581","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1587,"url":"http:\/\/orcldoug.com\/blog\/2010\/03\/16\/hotsos-2010-summary\/","url_meta":{"origin":1581,"position":0},"title":"Hotsos 2010 – Summary","date":"March 16, 2010","format":false,"excerpt":"[One thing that's great about jet-lag is that it allows you to catch up on blogging and all the email that's built up while you've been away at the conference. Not much else you can do at 2:30 in the morning.]I'm glad I went to the Hotsos Symposium again this\u2026","rel":"","context":"Similar post","img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":1604,"url":"http:\/\/orcldoug.com\/blog\/2010\/05\/17\/resource-manager-and-11g\/","url_meta":{"origin":1581,"position":1},"title":"Resource Manager and 11g","date":"May 17, 2010","format":false,"excerpt":"I will get back to the stats stuff at some point, but I'm quite busy at the moment working on something that I can't talk too much about, but which is throwing up enough generic issues to talk about. This is one that I meant to blog about ages ago\u2026","rel":"","context":"With 5 comments","img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/orcldoug.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1581","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/orcldoug.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/orcldoug.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/orcldoug.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/orcldoug.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1581"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/orcldoug.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1581\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/orcldoug.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1581"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/orcldoug.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1581"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/orcldoug.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1581"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}