{"id":359,"date":"2007-10-30T17:16:09","date_gmt":"2007-10-30T08:16:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wombathole.com\/dili-gence\/?p=359"},"modified":"2007-10-30T17:16:09","modified_gmt":"2007-10-30T08:16:09","slug":"clean-air","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dili-gence.wombathole.com\/?p=359","title":{"rendered":"Clean air"},"content":{"rendered":"

Apart from when it is windy and you might cop a lungful of dust, Dili air approaches magnificent … except when you pass the odd ablution premises in need of a bit of a rinse or a rubbish receptacle being gorged by a ravenous pig.<\/p>\n

If I was an Olympic athlete (shooters and other more sedentary “athletes” excluded) I would be very nervous about next year’s Beijing Olympics<\/a>. I would be doubling up on the clean underwear and praying like hell that competition day is one of the good days. I know you sometimes can’t see Atauro clearly but imagine rarely being able to see the Christo Rei statue from central Dili because of pollution.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, enjoy the clean air in Dili which each and every day is becoming heavier and heavier with humidity. The glasses are starting to fog again … the optical ones I meant !\u00a0 OK, they both do.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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