AUSTRALIA | Tuesday, 4 Aug 2020 | Views [373] | Comments [3]
I feel like an Airfix model that somebody started in 1972, forgot about, and rediscovered in the attic when they had to sell the house they’d inherited because they’d decided to downsize and move to Mudgee. All the parts are actually there ... Read more >
Tags: blog, corona, covid, joural, lockdown, sydney
AUSTRALIA | Wednesday, 6 Jul 2016 | Views [657] | Comments [1]
I've been in Australia for four months now. Almost as long as South Korea. And in a similar unfolding of events, I'm beginning to feel like part of the local culture. Getting a feel for it. Not really Korean. Not really a born and bred resident. But ... Read more >
UNITED KINGDOM | Thursday, 31 Dec 2015 | Views [518] | Comments [5]
“ The red pill or the blue pill?”
“ I remember you,” said Joshua.
"You take the blue pill, the story starts again. You wake up in some hotel, some country. Believe whatever you want to believe. You take the red pill, ... Read more >
LUXEMBOURG | Friday, 25 Dec 2015 | Views [521] | Comments [6]
Where am I?
Northern hemisphere.
Where am I?
Grand Duchy of Luxembourg.
Where am I?
52.
Where am I?
By myself in a hotel.
Where am I?
Scattered across the smooth and hairy countries of the world.
Where am I?
Exactly? ... Read more >
USA | Saturday, 13 Jun 2015 | Views [352] | Comments [3]
Since arriving in Los Angeles – mythical, dry Los Angeles - five days ago the most amazing thing has happened. I have managed to get crap on my shirt with every and I'm talking three-times-a-day Every every morsel I eat and every drop I drink.... Read more >
UNITED KINGDOM | Wednesday, 10 Jun 2015 | Views [528] | Comments [2]
Tock.
2.22am. Body clock not ticking to any particular time. Might be African time. Or Greek time. Or Middle Eastern time. Or it might have been hanging onto Sydney time all these years and it was simply because ... Read more >
Tags: australia, greece, johannesburg, south africa
SOUTH AFRICA | Wednesday, 8 Apr 2015 | Views [498] | Comments [5]
If any of you are wondering why I haven't written may I say there's a very simple reason. I've gone insane.
I thought doing this show for another (3rd) year would, on the whole, not be a huge challenge. And in some respects it isn't. I go on ... Read more >
UNITED KINGDOM | Tuesday, 10 Mar 2015 | Views [416] | Comments [3]
Liverpool. Home of The Beatles. The Beatles Museum (yes of course there's a Beatles Museum) is literally a two minute walk from my semi-demi-luxury apartment's front door. Down in the resident's-only parking area I've noticed the numbers go from 24 to ... Read more >
UNITED KINGDOM | Tuesday, 3 Mar 2015 | Views [494] | Comments [3]
[Wrote this a few weeks ago....]
So. Where are we?
We're in Camberwell. Denmark Hill. Brixton. South East London. That area. Specifically Coldharbour Lane. Brilliant name. Is there a novel somewhere in Henry Pordes second-hand bookshop ... Read more >
UNITED KINGDOM | Monday, 2 Feb 2015 | Views [579] | Comments [2]
It starts with a scream in a dream. And then it's suddenly not a dream. It's really real and it's across the road. I get up from this new bed. Open the curtains in this new room. In this new place. In this new chapter. Spanking new. I've been off the ... Read more >
UNITED ARAB EMIRATES | Saturday, 10 Jan 2015 | Views [680] | Comments [2]
In keeping with the MO of most world leaders and U2 I've utterly failed you this last year. As a blogger in my case. Actually the U2 album is ok. Already lost my thread.
Let's all see what countries I've experienced since October 2013.
England.... Read more >
UNITED KINGDOM | Tuesday, 15 Jul 2014 | Views [489] | Comments [3]
Phewski! The leaking of my missives onto his World Nomads page has been a plus. Judging by the comments, everyone just thinks it's some incredibly self-indulgent pastiche. So. No harm done. Nonetheless, I've moved again and am sending this with triple ... Read more >
UNITED KINGDOM | Friday, 11 Jul 2014 | Views [450] | Comments [1]
Well bugger me sideways. I don't know the How and I'm starting to be less sure about the Who, but somebody has planted a cyber-tracker in The Cloud and virtually knows my every virtual move. I'm livid.
Yet again, my last ... Read more >
UNITED KINGDOM | Thursday, 10 Jul 2014 | Views [485] | Comments [4]
Brilliant. Some finger-licking hackmeister infiltrated my emails and posted my encrypted message to you as a frickin blog entry. I'm never using Firewall-Free Fred's Internet Café services again. I should have flinched when I saw Nachos ... Read more >
UNITED KINGDOM | Wednesday, 9 Jul 2014 | Views [523] | Comments [5]
It is with great excitement that I write to you, Ms Cress. The blogs are found.
I know. I know. I, too, was at my wit's end. When we never heard anything after just two blogs, I feared the worst. But as you know, hope is the one thing ... Read more >
SOUTH KOREA | Tuesday, 28 Jan 2014 | Views [697] | Comments [2]
It's very easy to make fun of another country simply because of a few cultural/linguistic differences.
So here we go.
The manicurist shop called Hand Job .
The Korean award clearly displayed in ... Read more >
SOUTH KOREA | Tuesday, 3 Dec 2013 | Views [778] | Comments [4]
VOULEZ DÉJÀ VU 1
I found Whore Street.
But more of that later.
Welcome back, gentle readers. Welcome back to the proper blog. We all know there's been a few entries ... Read more >
Tags: mamma mia
AUSTRALIA | Friday, 2 Aug 2013 | Views [845] | Comments [7]
I've read Ulysses . Or rather...
That bloody book. Ages it has. Haranguing and haranguing. Four times I tried. Four times! But done it is it is the. Done. One word after another just like in that Stephen King thing with killing things ... Read more >
AUSTRALIA | Friday, 1 Mar 2013 | Views [375]
I don't know where the fuck I am.
I mean, yes, I'm in Australia. In Saratoga. Camped between the eucalypts and good fishing. In my mum's granny flat. All good. There's two geckos (small Australian lizards). One in and one out. And they make ... Read more >
UNITED KINGDOM | Wednesday, 16 May 2012 | Views [703] | Comments [9]
You dream.
You hope. You pray.
You think it's over. That's it. It'll
never happen again.
You think it will never happen to you .
Not again. That special moment. That special knowing . That this is
good. That this is right .
... Read more >
UNITED KINGDOM | Monday, 19 Dec 2011 | Views [561] | Comments [3]
Three gifts from three wise men. Okay. From one wise man. Would you believe three jpegs from a shop-soiled ex-Christian? Love from here, beckley xo
UNITED KINGDOM | Saturday, 1 Oct 2011 | Views [712] | Comments [11]
One of the first things I see here in Leicester is a youngish man walking down the street, an open can of beer in one hand, an open packet of Skittles in the other, and a sly grin pushing up his left cheek. Knowingly taking the famous ... Read more >
UNITED KINGDOM | Sunday, 14 Aug 2011 | Views [755] | Comments [12]
There's got to be a morning after If we can hold on through the night...
We're
all a bit tired. Although 'tired' isn't exactly the right word.
Simone said it was a bit like “tears at the end of a party”. I
think some boffin ... Read more >
UNITED KINGDOM | Wednesday, 9 Mar 2011 | Views [906] | Comments [10]
9 th March, 2011
Survival
is all, is it not? Mother Nature and Reality Television have taught
us that if nothing else. And I can announce I have achieved two
distinct wins against the English winter and Ken Halls's adaptation
of 'The ... Read more >
UNITED KINGDOM | Friday, 25 Feb 2011 | Views [423]
From:
xxxxxx@xxxxxx.com.au Subject: x Date: Thu, 24 Feb 2011 20:01:22
+0000 To: ataxy@hotmail.com Mik where are you? When are
you….? How are you? Why are you….? x
From:
ataxy@hotmail.com Subject: x / Beckley replies... Date: Fri, 25
Feb ... Read more >
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