G'day from scenic Gatwick Airport! Am just waiting for my plane to Dublin for Kris's birthday weekend. She seemed pretty sure I'd miss my flight (although customarily it's mainly flights from Perth I miss…). In FACT my flight boards at
2005-10-14 : This big bear bowls into the Buckingham Barclay’s branch…
Ever get the feeling that despite your years of experience of life on this planet and adjusting to social convention in your home environment, that there's still possibly realms of things you haven't yet discovered or worked out how to
2005-10-14 : Another MUST HAVE item !
Isn't the internet a rewarding place ? It turns out that one can buy posters of extremely large Mersenne prime numbers ! Choose from old favourites like (26972593)-1, (213466917)-1, or if you're into more fashionable and contemporary numbers, there's the
2005-10-13 : Grr, slacking off again…
Been too busy getting back into the swing of things here to finish writing. Having a few complications with my already errant body clock trying to work out which time zone it's in. Birthday drinks for Emzo the other night
2005-10-10 : Hours of travelling fun.
Back in London. Eyeballs bleeding, stuffy nose, etc. = all good 14 hour flight symptoms. Just ran into the Philips Clan at Heathrow – weird. The first time I've ever seen anyone I knew at Heathrow, and it was people
2005-10-09 : Back to Changi redux, redux. (quack)
Finally, I managed to sleep on a plane ! And typically, the movies they had were ones that I actually wanted to see (read: would have been perfectly happy to see for free). Oh well, that wasn't meant to be.
2005-10-08 : With enough hindsight, you can see your own ass !
I'll finish listing what I've been up to this week another time, cos I'm a bit short on spare minutes right at this second, however I just wanted to say cheers to everyone who came along to the Wheatie last
2005-10-05 : Top effort there from Captain Organised.
Well that's hardly the comprehensive travelogue we were all hoping for – since getting back to Australia I've only managed to write twice, and one of them was about giant squid ?! Best do a lightning summary, cos I'm meant
2005-10-05 : What time is it Uncle Humpy ? Why kids, it’s BEER O’CLOCK, of course !
Incidentally, if anyone's in the mood and isn't busy Friday night, I'll be heading down to The Wheatsheaf International on Friday night from about 7:30 onwards. It vaguely resembles this dated photo, although I'm not sure it's that shade of
2005-09-28 : Slappity slappity slap, flappity flappity flap.
Breaking from the travelogue for a moment, it appears that Japanese scientists have captured the first ever photographs of a living Giant Squid! Kinda creepy, huh ? Apparently though several have washed up on beaches from time to time, the