A happy-go-lucky English rambler dude goes to New Zealand for a year. Here he interfaces with some of those he left behind and details his nefarious activities. Or summat.
Recently clicked on MP3s - 7th June 2005 The Lucksmiths - Warmer Corners
Jens Lekman - When i said i wanted to be your dog
The Trashcan Sinatras - Weightlifting
Teenage Fanclub - Man Made
Laura Veirs - Carbon Glacier
The Decemberists - Picaresque
The Eels - Blinking Lights
Tuesday, October 01, 2002
Coo eee! Well i'm still managing to avoid the world of gainful employment, though i can feel it slowly closing in on me. A statement from the student loans company i received yesterday gave me 4000 reasons why i should be getting a job as soon as possible.
Despite being dole scum, I have been doing lots of other very constructive things, like er, tidying my bedroom (What am i, a 10 year old?!). My bedroom is not like other bedrooms though. For the last few weeks i've been living amongst several generations of accumulated gumpf, and yesterday i snapped and decided to attempt to tidy it up (ie chuck it out). It's been an awesome task, but there are now charity shops all over Leicester bursting at the seams with James Herbert novels, Carp fishing magazines, outdated computer science text books and Paul Weller singles. In fact i'd imagine the homless problem in Leicester will soon be solved, and old folk will be getting chauffered around in Bentleys, due to the extra income from all of my stuff being sold in the charity shops.
Another major achievement is finally getting my bike fixed up - with some flash new Deore v-brakes, and rather tasteful toeclips. Although unkind people may say that i simply watched Rob fix my bike while i ate fig rolls, i would insist that i played a major part: in choosing the colour of my new brakes, as well as getting them out of the packet. Thanks again for the help Rob. And the lift to the bike shop. And the free handlebars. And the fig rolls.
But by far the fun-est thing i've done since returning back to blighty though, was a birthday trip to the Milton Keynes Snow dome, courtesy of Alison, my snowboarding sis (Thanks again :o). People who saw me snowboarding in NZ may find this hard to believe, but during the 2 hour session on the real indoor snow, i finally got the hang of snowboarding!!! I wasn't quite joining in on the jumps and rails, but i can now happily swoosh down the slope at a reasonable speed, without falling over, or screeching to a halt after every turn. Annoyingly i wasn't quite as fast as Alison though, humph. Come to think of it, if she was any kind of sister, she'd have let me win surely?
