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As I have previously said, on Friday evening we met a tramp, which was a highlight, but it is not all we did on Friday…
The day was spent (or should have been) searching for a vehicle. However, we got a puncture when we went to set off and the spare tyre in the Slavominator was [...]

Yesterday we went for our last bout of car shopping. After Fridays debacle, where we got a puncture, saw some badly beaten oil guzzlers and generally didn’t achieve much, I really wanted to get hold of something that we could tour about in.
We achieved our goal. A deposit has been put down on Mitsubishi Pajero. [...]

That’s right, we met a tramp last night…
I’ll start this story at the end. Linda, Vicky and I ended up in St Kilda sipping coffee outside a cafe at about midnight last night. After a while, people started disappearing and the street became quieter. Soon a tramp wandered up to us and, though I’m not [...]

This opening paragraph needs some further explanation, so I’ll rewind a few months. Friday 14th July 2006 was probably the best day of my life. Why? On this day I graduated from the University of Newcastle-Upon-Tyne and in the vein of every poorly scripted teen angst/rights of passage/college movie, it felt as [...]

I am officially living the dream. Last night I met Toadfish, Steph and Dillon.

I went to St Kilda to meet my friend Vicky at the Base hostel. I’d booked in for the night to make the most of this life-changing event. Unfortunately, Rob had a back injury so I bought him a commemorative fridge magnet [...]

The “front beach” at Rye is really quite nice.
Despite the jetskis (or PWCs as they are called here - a fact I learned at St Kilda beach where there was a sign stating that there were to be “NO PWCs”: I wish they’d had these signs at the careers events at university…) and speedboats cruising [...]

I got a new camera on Friday morning before we went to the beach at Rye. You’ll notice the new pictures dotted around, also I’ll have to write less. A win-win situation.
I’ll also be able to write more often as we got an ASDL line fitted at the new place today.
Have a look at a [...]

We went to the beach on Friday afternoon as England had just lost the ashes in a 5-0 drubbing.
We all wanted answers. Particularly as every Australian takes such great delight upon discovering that we are “poms” and proceeds to say, without fail, almost word for word, “so, you won’t be too happy about the cricket [...]

Linda and I met my cousin Richard and his girlfriend* Karen in Melbourne last week and found out some interesting news…
It was quite strange to meet up as I hadn’t seen him for a couple of years despite the fact that he has moved to within an hour of my parents house. Perhaps due to [...]

Yes, we have seen some!
The first major sighting was on a car journey into Melbourne when a large Huntsman spider jumped onto the car and attempted to kill us, James-Bond-fight-on-a-moving-vehicle stylee.
The second major sighting was in the garage, when a large “house spider” which looked like it made regular meals out of horses, scurried under [...]