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Thursday, 11 Feb 2010 | Views [2743]
Who wants money? Anyone? I'm throwing
it away. Out it goes with my mobile phone and all my phone numbers.
And a fair portion of my dignity too. Yep, that's what Bucks parties
are all about apparently. Being the first I had ... Read more >
Tags: friends, party
Friday, 5 Feb 2010 | Views [1238] | Comments [1]
One minute a nobody; a TV star the next. After my brush with fame is televised this Sunday morning, (Insiders ABC 9am) I'll be a nobody again. Unless some careful editing manages to portray me as perhaps, weatherman potential. I fear it may portray ... Read more >
Tags: friends, television, work
Wednesday, 27 Jan 2010 | Views [1389]
Isn't life amazing? Such a claim may
seem like a great self-help book title, or that I've been watching
too many nature documentaries again, but its the only way I can
summarise my last week. I've gone from clueless and uncommitted to
stable ... Read more >
Tags: sunshine, work
Wednesday, 27 Jan 2010 | Views [723] | Comments [1]
Hangover day number four in a row. I
fell out of my bunk bed at 11am and sparked a joint to dull the
throbbing in my head. I needed a serious caffeine injection just to
stop slumber from reclaiming me as I typed. I haven't even thought of
work, ... Read more >
Sunday, 20 Dec 2009 | Views [1103] | Comments [1]
Returning to Melbourne is always a scary
prospect for me. Cougars don't stalk me in the front yard and the wardrobe is
boogey man free the last time I checked. Grey skies that look like they've been
finger painted by an obsessive compulsive ... Read more >
Tags: friends, on the road
Sunday, 13 Dec 2009 | Views [1045] | Comments [1]
An old biblical saying goes 'He who bores of paradise, is indeed an idiot, or loves apples!' Old is a relative term seeing as I made up that saying, just like someone else probably made up the Bible, but it is most appropriate to my decision to leave ... Read more >
Tags: beaches, friends, work
Wednesday, 18 Nov 2009 | Views [2918] | Comments [3]
Who would have thought I would make it this
far? If anyone other than me gave any thought to it, you have far too much time
on your hands and should try collecting stamps or something. My abacus must
have a virus because journal entry number ... Read more >
Thursday, 5 Nov 2009 | Views [972]
I'm back in Broome. My house is full of
strangers. The weather is a hot liquid overcoat. I am no longer a underwater
porcelain technician. All of these facts painted a rather scary picture on my
return home. Particularly with the financial freedom ... Read more >
Tags: friends, work
Friday, 30 Oct 2009 | Views [1273]
Money can strangely lose all significance once you have
none. On the proviso that you have friends who will compromise their credit
rating on your behalf. When the universe deemed that the last $8 in my account
was superfluous to my needs, I am thankful ... Read more >
Tags: money
Friday, 2 Oct 2009 | Views [3120]
Its a sorry story when the best thing about
a place is leaving there. Even more so when it is only for two days. With a
weekend off for Rachel, and the 'Australia' movie shrines and Big
Mango sightings exhausted, we decided to venture further ... Read more >
Tags: beaches, friends
Monday, 21 Sep 2009 | Views [1678] | Comments [3]
What drugs was I on when I thought of returning to Bowen? Anyone who reads my ramblings will be able to answer that question, but they won't win anything for their trouble. I drive around amazed that the fond memories I have of the place seem so far ... Read more >
Tags: drugs, friends, misadventures
Friday, 18 Sep 2009 | Views [1305]
4,500 kms is a long way to travel and I knew it was not going to be easy. Given that someone else flew the plane for me most of the way, the biggest strain was on my wallet. The 620 km driving stint I did was my most challenging task, but I still managed ... Read more >
Tags: drugs, friends, on the road
Sunday, 13 Sep 2009 | Views [2660] | Comments [1]
Everybody needs holidays. Some of us need them more often than others. If I don't have a holiday every few months at least, I start entertaining thoughts of regicide. Everybody needs sex as well. If I don't have any sex for a few months at least, I ... Read more >
Tags: beaches & sunshine, friends, misadventures, money
Tuesday, 8 Sep 2009 | Views [1868]
I can take my too-cool-for-school sunglasses off now because some of the shiny gloss has been taken off of Broome. I'm still as happy here as a four year old with a new toy. Or a forty year old. Familiarity breeds somehow, and its offspring is considered ... Read more >
Tags: friends, misadventures
Monday, 3 Aug 2009 | Views [1341]
The effeminate air in this house is obviously starting to
have an effect on me. I'm not prepared to wear make up, gossip with
sacrilegious fervour or watch 'Dirty dancing' on a weekly basis yet. I have
developed an unhealthy obsession with Frangelico ... Read more >
Tags: friends, misadventures, sisterhood
Monday, 20 Jul 2009 | Views [3753]
You can't share a house with 8 women and not have delusions
about being the next Hugh Heffner. My playboy mansion might be disappointingly
short on silicon boobs, bikinis and bare bellies to snort coke off, but my bunnies
compensate by being genuinely ... Read more >
Tags: friends, party
Tuesday, 14 Jul 2009 | Views [1269]
I think Fate either fancies me, or she has a wicked and
cruel sense of humour. Finding house mates is never an easy task. Either no one
calls, or the people that do, spend the initial interview talking about their
knife collection and how they perfected ... Read more >
Tags: friends
Wednesday, 8 Jul 2009 | Views [2375]
If someone were to tell me that I have been in Broome for over three months now, I would call them a 'dirty, no good liar'. Then I would have to apologise profusely because apparently it is true. Over a month since my last journal, I find myself at a ... Read more >
Tags: drugs, friends, music
Tuesday, 26 May 2009 | Views [1338]
If Broome has a short coming, it's that it's not a road trip. It's a bit too stationary for that. It's not actually a lot of things, like a toaster, philosophical thesis or belly button lint to list but a few. Most things obey the laws of physics and ... Read more >
Tags: drugs, misadventures, on the road
Tuesday, 26 May 2009 | Views [1350]
Our first destination was the Bungle Bungle's. Knowing nothing of them prior and being given no clue by their name, we arrived with few expectations. Good thing too as it was night time when we finally made it. I was driving by then and ploughing through ... Read more >
Tags: drugs, misadventures, on the road
Tuesday, 26 May 2009 | Views [1143]
I woke up before Lady Luck to find my tongue stuck in quicksand, my mind stuck in neutral and my pillow stuck to my face with drool. With BYO booze, my wallet had been a superfluous accompaniment to the night but had somehow managed to get lost in its ... Read more >
Tags: drugs, misadventures, on the road
Tuesday, 26 May 2009 | Views [2783]
Soon after it was time to eat before the 4am dry heaves started 12 hours too early. We stopped at the Halls Creek roadhouse where everyone's name could have been Bates, Bundy or Manson for all I knew. Spratty took affront to Mr. Roadhouse's service ... Read more >
Tags: drugs, misadventures, on the road
Monday, 4 May 2009 | Views [1502]
I'm worried that I'll appear boastful if I
continue to write about just how good life is in Broome. Not that the place is
exclusively my domain, as the rapid increase in tourist numbers can attest to.
This party has an open invitation and I gladly ... Read more >
Tags: friends, partying, work
Tuesday, 14 Apr 2009 | Views [1186]
So I got myself a job as a 'dishy'. Not exactly evolving in the vocational scheme of things. Particularly when it's in a brewery, a place that offers the chance of rapid intellectual devolving. Aside from the universe again providing exactly what I ... Read more >
Tags: misadventures, work
Wednesday, 8 Apr 2009 | Views [793]
Be careful what you wish for, some say, as
it may just come true. And then some! I am a firm believer in that principle as
life constantly confirms that my thoughts create my reality. But I seem to recall
it was a warmer climate I was pining for, ... Read more >
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