tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31267422011-09-05T10:41:07.489+01:00Ted In NZA 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.Boneyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17072030255785746750noreply@blogger.comBlogger1911100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3126742.post-1149094672683893112006-05-31T17:57:00.000+01:002006-05-31T17:57:52.696+01:00test postTedhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11512933382945634150noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3126742.post-1122462568941882862005-07-27T10:54:00.000+01:002005-07-27T12:09:28.996+01:00Hiyer!Things are afoot.The lease on the pleasant flat i've been sharing in pleasant Clifton Hill is coming to an end this weekend, rather unpleasantly forcing me out of the easy routine i've been in for the last few months. And a week after that, my financially pleasant job is coming to an end too. All of which is a bit of a shock to the system, and has forced me to actually think about what the Tedhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11512933382945634150noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3126742.post-1119630412747350442005-06-24T16:09:00.000+01:002005-06-24T17:30:31.356+01:00Hiyer.Oooh, it's late and i'm sleepy, but if i don't write anything now, then it'll no doubt be ages before i get round to it again, so i'll try and have a go, before heading off to curl up in my freezing cold, yes that's freezing cold, bedroom...Melbourne really is a great city, and walking through the centre tonight, on the way to meet up with some chums for a Kill Bill Double bill at the AstorTedhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11512933382945634150noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3126742.post-1118241127533800282005-06-09T00:30:00.000+01:002005-06-09T15:30:09.200+01:00Last Saturday morning I was sat on the sofa, aimlessly surfing the internet, much as I am now, when out of the blue came a phone call from my old Christchurch mate Kim, and what was going to be a pleasant, if run of the mill weekend, instantly became 10x more fun-er.Kim is possibly the ultimate Australian - an expert surfer, fearless of snakes, mates with Steve Irwin (no really), laid back and Tedhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11512933382945634150noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3126742.post-1116670614424402212005-05-21T10:53:00.000+01:002005-06-07T15:34:58.286+01:00And now here's Alan with the sport.First up, Athletics. The big race of the past week (er, make that month, due a slight delay in getting this post finished off) was the Great Ocean Road Half Marathon, which completely overshadowed it's full marathon big brother, due to the thrilling tussle between the two Kenyan favourites for the race, and the plucky qualifier, Mark Edward. Yes! For the first Tedhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11512933382945634150noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3126742.post-1115905468290217902005-05-12T12:56:00.000+01:002005-05-12T14:53:57.083+01:00Due to skipping my Spanish class tonight at the excellent El Patio, (as i've not done my homework, and I only got four hours sleep last night) I'm currently experiencing my first bit of spare time for a week or so. I've been meaning to write an update for ages, but currently the idea of an early night is much more inviting than grinding out a load of guff on here.However, as my favourite on-line Tedhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11512933382945634150noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3126742.post-1114781180407881152005-04-29T14:17:00.000+01:002005-04-29T14:26:20.406+01:00"He's as tough as a '65 Yute!"A real quoute heard on Australian TV while watching Carlton Vs Hawthorn tonight.Tedhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11512933382945634150noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3126742.post-1113144495423353902005-04-10T13:44:00.000+01:002005-04-10T16:16:53.536+01:00Ay up. Time for an update on the day to day life of a poor immigrant in Melbourne. It'd be nice to contine the high drama and excitement of all my previous posts, but life's settled down to a bit more of a routine these days, partly due to the fact i'm now working from home (making websites do stuff), and partly due to me being skint.Fear not though, i'm keeping busy. My training for the CanberraTedhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11512933382945634150noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3126742.post-1112535724956541102005-04-03T14:37:00.000+01:002005-04-04T07:28:52.533+01:00Oh yes! The thing i'm missing most about the UK is now available on tinternet.Though sadly not for much longer by the look of it...Straight to page 302 as ever...Tedhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11512933382945634150noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3126742.post-1112229483671644112005-03-30T22:52:00.000+01:002005-03-31T01:55:36.843+01:00Hello, Good Evening & Welcome to a painfully overdue description of what i've been up to for the last yonk or two.Sorry it’s been so ridiculously long since i’ve been in touch, via this website, and not to mention via email and phone… It’s stupid I know, but the longer I left it, and the more I had to talk about, the more daunting the idea of a major write up of what i’ve been doing became, and Tedhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11512933382945634150noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3126742.post-1112104967049562862005-03-29T14:31:00.000+01:002005-03-29T15:02:47.050+01:00I hereby swear that if i don't write a proper website update within 24 hours of posting this temporary reminder, i will parade, nude, up and down Bourke street, singing a song about Merlin the happy pig.Scouts honour.In the meantime, meet my new neighbourTedhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11512933382945634150noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3126742.post-1108373553869422202005-02-14T21:27:00.000+01:002005-02-14T11:42:12.370+01:00G'Day n that!Well, i've finally made it to Australia, and happily have been busy enough doing fun things to completely neglect the old website. Tonight that changes though! I've got bugger all to do (other than find my way to Coogee from Kings Cross), a cheap internet place at my disposal, and no excuses.When i last told you anything real about what i'd been up to i was in New Plymouth, mucking Tedhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11512933382945634150noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3126742.post-1107676653733453322005-02-06T08:44:00.000+01:002005-02-06T08:57:33.733+01:00Easter Island - An Apology
I would like to take this opportunity to apologise to the people of Rapa Nui / Easter Island, for my recent desecration of their sacred monuments.
I promise to re-imburse them for any physical damage to the Moai, as well as for any emotional distress my thoughtless actions may have caused. I will now refrain from sitting on any sacred monuments or artefacts i Tedhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11512933382945634150noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3126742.post-1107499213555285202005-02-04T17:33:00.000+01:002005-02-04T07:40:13.556+01:00At times I have been known to get a little bit carried away when i discover a new band / performer that i really like, but this time i'm right, honest!
Mason Jennings is without a doubt the greatest recording artist alive today. And yesterday. And probably will be tomorrow too.
Tedhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11512933382945634150noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3126742.post-1107061338690671142005-01-30T18:00:00.000+01:002005-01-31T01:56:10.596+01:00Hi groovers, and welcome to Art (Hole) Day here on Ted in NZ.
Partially inspired by reading Bill Drummond's Art-ography 45, and partially by sitting next to this person on a flight from Christchurch to Auckland i've decided to brighten the place up a bit, and improve the levels of artistic expression on here.
Firstly, a younger reader, Tristan Reidford aged 29 3/4, has sent in one of his Tedhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11512933382945634150noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3126742.post-1107082136464902072005-01-30T11:11:00.000+01:002005-01-30T11:48:56.466+01:00Continuing the day of art here on Ted In NZ, I now present
"The Bad Art Remix Project"
Just as a bout of farting will follow a lovely plateful of baked beans and cabbage, so will bad art follow good art around. And i think we can say i've been on the cabbage recently. [Warning! Metaphor logic breakdown!]
The other week, whilst ambling around on Mount Victoria over looking Wellington harbour, Tedhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11512933382945634150noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3126742.post-1106185895688250122005-01-20T14:24:00.000+01:002005-01-20T02:54:47.670+01:00Partly inspired by the fact that i'm getting a little bit bored by the selection on my MP3 player, and partly just out of nosiness, i've begun conducting an international survey of current musical tastes.
Whenever i meet people who i deem worthy of listening to on the subject of music, i question them on what bands they're currently grooving to - ideally ones from their homeland, but with the Tedhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11512933382945634150noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3126742.post-1106049918604863092005-01-18T13:04:00.000+01:002005-01-20T10:03:34.553+01:00Hi All,
And a belated Happy New Year, from New Plymouth, in New Zealand!
[I was in New Plymouth when i wrote this on paper, but i'm actually now in Wellington. Only saying that would ruin the clever 'New' thing i had going on there wouldn't it?]
I'm currently staying with an old mate from my last visit to NZ, Keith, who at the moment is busy training for both a half marathon and a 150k road Tedhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11512933382945634150noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3126742.post-1104655969769845982004-12-20T09:45:00.000+01:002005-01-20T10:06:50.060+01:00Hola! from sunny Santiago... Hope everyone's ok? And looking forward to Chrstmas, with the presents all purchased and full of hot toddies and mince pies?
Can't say i'm feeling too Christmassy myself, despite the Santiago town council going to all the effort of creating a massive fake christmas tree in the Plaza de Armas. Sun burn and insane, need to buy a coke every 30 minutes type heat just Tedhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11512933382945634150noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3126742.post-1102109128039731842004-12-03T22:13:00.000+01:002004-12-03T22:25:28.040+01:00Down and out in Santiago - A novellete by Mark Edward
It was the best of times, it was the worst of times (I´m stealing from the wrong book here i know, but there´s a queue of people behind me waiting for the computer, and i´ve never actually read Down and out in Paris and London).
The story concerns a young traveller, making his way to South America for the first time, excitedly taking his Tedhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11512933382945634150noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3126742.post-1087810099905034082004-06-21T10:28:00.000+01:002004-06-21T10:30:12.200+01:00NOTE TO SELF: Start using your website again.
Keep it simple at first, perhaps putting on links to nice little websites that you find, such as this one
See, that wasn't so hard was it?Tedhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11512933382945634150noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3126742.post-1080687177756629282004-03-30T23:52:00.000+01:002004-03-31T09:46:25.903+01:00Woo! Spring has well and truly spronged.
How can you tell? There's now enough light to go for a 17.3 mile bike ride after work - hurrah! And judging by the number of brightly coloured, lycra clad butterflies i saw emerging from their wintery chrysalis' last night, the rest of Leicester's road biking community had dusted down their bikes, and gone for a ride too.
An (incorrect) Artists Tedhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11512933382945634150noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3126742.post-1077043415187568782004-02-17T19:43:00.000+01:002004-02-18T12:15:34.436+01:00Rest in peace poor old Marco Pantani, who died a couple of days ago.
Whatever the actual truth behind the amount of performance enhancing drugs he took during his career he was an amazing rider, who still holds the record time of 37 minutes and 35 seconds for the ascent of Alp D'Huez.
When I cycled up Alp D'Huez last summer, I took 1hr 30mins. Which either illustrates just how unfit i am, or Tedhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11512933382945634150noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3126742.post-1076888221686500732004-02-16T00:37:00.000+01:002004-02-16T00:55:12.793+01:00Shock Horror Probe! I've managed to get round to scanning and fiddling with a bunch of not too bad photos from my recent snowboarding holiday in Andorra, with Alison & Graham.
Anyone hoping for a series of all action shots of me doing 360s while leaping off snowy cliff faces may be a tad disappointed, but frankly unsurprised, to hear that the camera only came out when i spent a day snow ramblingTedhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11512933382945634150noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3126742.post-1074813904460350892004-01-23T00:25:00.000+01:002004-01-23T00:45:15.110+01:00Hiyer!
Apologies for the extreme lack of updates in the last month, it's not like i've got absolutely nothing to write, just that i've got out of the habit of blogging really. My new year's resolution however is to kick a bit more ass in all areas of life, and although it's showing signs of waning here and there, i do fully intend to start wibbling on here again.
Having said that, i can't do Tedhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11512933382945634150noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3126742.post-1074623536010756942003-12-28T19:57:00.000+01:002004-01-20T20:00:30.403+01:00As i've always been a bit of a Basketball fan, while i was in Boston recently i couldn't miss out on a trip to the Fleet Center, to see the Boston Celtics playing the New Jersey Nets. Although we don't get to see much NBA on TV in the UK at the moment, I knew that Jason Kidd, one of the best players in the world is currently on the Nets roster, and sure enough he ran rings around the poor old Tedhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11512933382945634150noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3126742.post-1069632529421309612003-11-24T01:08:00.000+01:002003-11-24T01:11:56.186+01:00OK, i admit it, i'm no longer in Boston.
Instead of drinking at Cheers, i now have to make do with "Lucid" on Braunstone gate. And instead of discussing post modern expressionism with Harvard students while sipping triple-choc-haf-caff-mocha-spresso-frappa-chinos, i now have to watch De Montfort Uni scum racing wheelie bins up down the road, while drinking Nescafe. Ho Hum.
The good news is Tedhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11512933382945634150noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3126742.post-1068226635216469362003-11-07T18:37:00.000+01:002003-11-07T18:43:23.273+01:00Woo! The Boston goodness continues, this time via the gift of ROCK.
Mark & I went to see the Eels last night, at the Paradise club. Although they are a band i've always liked, i probably wouldn't have bust a gut to go and see them if they were playing in the UK, but i now realise that is because i am a fool. I went along last night, because it was the best looking gig of the week in Boston (I'veTedhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11512933382945634150noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3126742.post-1068148647211297772003-11-06T20:57:00.000+01:002003-11-06T20:57:24.823+01:00"Hi! How ya doin today? Can i help you find anything?". Yes i've been spending too much time in American shops - and now cannot get the shop assistant's Mantra out of my head.
Had a great day yesterday, buying all sorts of silly gubbins on the wonderful Newbury Street, probably the origin for my favourite Boston shop, Newbury Comics, as well as visiting some lovely art galleries like the Tedhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11512933382945634150noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3126742.post-1068043578297890432003-11-05T15:46:00.000+01:002003-11-05T15:50:52.570+01:00Humph.
Annoyingly, like everywhere else, life in America isn't all good. Here are some of the crapper things that can happen over here:
Have Hangovers.
Get lost.
Wander aimlessly round dull areas with hurting feet.
Wait for ages for a T Train on the wrong platform.
Fail to find Art galleries you're after.
Find out that the lane you booked at the super swanky, neon bowl-a-rama "Kings" has Tedhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11512933382945634150noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3126742.post-1067972465083776002003-11-04T20:01:00.000+01:002003-11-04T20:01:35.656+01:00I don't plan to only ever update my blog from exotic places, it just seems to be working out like that at the minute.
My current location is the Library of MIT, in Boston, Masschusetts, and you can feel the cleverness oozing out of the walls, as well as from the fact that everyone else on the computers here is looking at college related stuff, rather than reading reports on Leicester City Tedhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11512933382945634150noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3126742.post-1063798733914305822003-09-17T12:38:00.000+01:002003-09-27T17:24:45.380+01:00Bonjour mon petit Bageuttes!
Oui, je suis dans Francais, Le ville de Bourg D'Oisans exactement.
Je suis sur un vacance de velo, et un peu fatigue au jourduis. J'ascende L'Alpe D'Huez le jour avant hier! Dans un temps pas tres vite - Une heure et quarante minute, pas tres bon :o( Mais je voudrais faire un autre ascent avec plus vitesse plus tard dans le semaine. Hier j'ai ete ascend le col de Tedhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11512933382945634150noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3126742.post-1062544333186790122003-09-03T00:12:00.000+01:002003-09-26T11:40:45.030+01:00Oh yeah, i've got a website haven't I?
Er, what do you do with these things again? I seem to have forgotten....
Yes, that's it, you bore people with your photographs don't you!
Sulphur Mountain, Banff
To celebrate the fact that i've now been back from my travels for a year(!) I've got round to putting up what will probably be the last set of pics from the few weeks i spent in Canada. Clicky Tedhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11512933382945634150noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3126742.post-1058311960585612862003-07-16T00:32:00.000+01:002003-07-16T00:55:12.333+01:00To celebrate fixing the scanner, i thought i'd share my new most prized possession with the world....A signed Kinky Friedman album!
To the Tedster, from the Kinkster! Oooh!!
I went to see my favourite author at 'The Musician' pub a few weeks ago. An author at a pub? Well, if you didn't already know, the Kinkster is an ex-Country and Western singer, who now writes hilarious crime stories set Tedhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11512933382945634150noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3126742.post-1057103520111592682003-07-02T00:52:00.000+01:002003-07-02T00:52:00.140+01:00Nngah! Must. Post. To. Website. More. Often.
Especially as it's mainly been good news lately.
First off, my botty is almost back to optimum performance after it's recent surgery. It's been a long, and frankly un-enjoyable journey back to health, but i'm finally free from the tyranny of ingrowing bottom hairs and i'm now finally able to focus on doing fun things in life again.
As i've not beenTedhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11512933382945634150noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3126742.post-1055705786479161652003-06-15T20:36:00.000+01:002003-06-16T00:37:38.663+01:00I saw something happen yesterday, that has probably never happened before, nor ever will again.A Welshman threw a tennis ball ten metres across a pub beer garden, and it landed straight into a fat Englishman's half drunk pint of lager.The fat man then drank the rest of the beer in one go, yellow fluffy bits and all, and then put the pint glass upside down on his head, to cheers from all Tedhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11512933382945634150noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3126742.post-952990802003-06-04T21:31:00.000+01:002003-06-04T21:36:17.850+01:00Thought you might be interested in a bit of Photography / Photoshoppery i did tonight to help Rob sell his Motorbike suit on Ebay.
I think the addition of Prince Phillip adds a certain amount of class, but i'm not sure if that will really appeal to the greaser demographic we're aiming at with the suit. I suppose i should have put James Hetfield on it, but i refused to compromise my artistic, er,Tedhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11512933382945634150noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3126742.post-952593562003-06-04T00:43:00.000+01:002003-06-04T01:04:17.030+01:00
"your bottom will wish it had never been born!" - The Baby Eating Bishop of Bath & Wells, Blackadder II
Humph.
I wasn't entirely sure whether this subject would really be suitable for public consumption, but as almost everyone i know, is already aware of my recent bottom surgery i suppose it's safe to mention it. Although it's not something which greatly inspires me to sit down and write, or Tedhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11512933382945634150noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3126742.post-948736952003-05-26T00:02:00.000+01:002003-05-26T00:04:53.000+01:00
I love it when the Beeb repeats This Life.....
Tedhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11512933382945634150noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3126742.post-939582812003-05-08T01:17:00.000+01:002003-05-08T01:17:58.160+01:00Hey, life's not all bad!
I'm still off running, but hopefully Friday's club run will be my long awaited comeback into the world of semi-amateur jogging, as my upper leg / arse region has been feeling staedily better all week.
To stop my legs wasting away completely, and to get ready for a sponsored bike ride i'm doing soon, i've started cycling to work this week. It's only a few miles, but Tedhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11512933382945634150noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3126742.post-937122382003-05-03T19:00:00.000+01:002003-05-03T19:07:09.000+01:00Being injured sucks SO badly.
Unfortunately my 'arse strain' from the other week has turned out rather worse than i'd hoped. I thought it had cleared up completely, and last Sunday i headed out for my weekly 10 miler, out to 'Old John' and back, but after 4 or 5 miles the horrendous shooting pains up and down the back of my thigh seemed to indicate that the injury was back with a vengance.
Tedhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11512933382945634150noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3126742.post-933015922003-04-26T17:45:00.000+01:002003-04-26T17:49:16.000+01:00Apart from a recent strain of my arse muscle ('Gluteus Maximus' apparently) my running's been going fairly well lately, and i'm looking forward to my next Half Marathon as much as you can look forward to doing something that invlolves a lot of pain and hard work.
My main target is to beat the time i set in my first half marathon in March (1hr 56m), though as it is a proper 'league' race, my Tedhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11512933382945634150noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3126742.post-930795552003-04-23T01:33:00.000+01:002003-04-23T01:41:02.000+01:00Oh, how did it get this late?
I wanted to write an essay about why Wayne Coyne should be appointed head of the UN, take charge all world affairs immediately and be allowed access to whatever experimental musical equipment and / or fluffy bunny suits he requires to create and maintain world peace, but sadly all i've had time to do is put together a page of scanned photos from my cycle tour roundTedhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11512933382945634150noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3126742.post-921828462003-04-08T00:51:00.000+01:002003-04-08T00:52:13.000+01:00I'm starting to worry that i may be a bad influence on my Mother.
Despite being naturally repulsed at first by programs like Jackass and Dirty Sanchez, she's gradually grown to enjoy them to almost worrying levels. In fact she complained to me today that Jackass these days seems a bit tame in comparison to the antics of Pritchard and Dainton.
Her MTV culture crossover has even gone as far as Tedhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11512933382945634150noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3126742.post-921122072003-04-07T00:27:00.000+01:002003-04-07T00:30:39.000+01:00Just a quick note to let you know i'm still hanging around, and that the site hasn't popped it's clogs just yet.
It's a shame i've not found the time to post anything lately, as i have been doing lots of quite interesting stuff. Hence the lack of motivation to hang around in front of a PC i suppose.
Anyway, here's a link to a page of pics i've knocked up from a recent jaunt up to Glasgow, whereTedhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11512933382945634150noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3126742.post-908866732003-03-18T01:15:00.000+01:002003-03-26T22:10:32.000+01:00Buying a T-Shirt isn't a lot, but you've got to do something to show the cabal of war crazy puritans running t'ings that you don't go along with their crap. All profits go to the Stop the War Coalition
Tedhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11512933382945634150noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3126742.post-904754122003-03-10T21:27:00.000+01:002003-03-25T21:12:53.000+01:00Had a very pleasant weekend down in London village, doing my best to replace the 1905kcal burned off during the half marathon. Visits to Rasa, a superb curry house in Stoke Newington, a random Italian restaurant somewhere near the British Museum and a classic greasy spoon caff should have more than done the trick.
Also went to see a Lemon Jelly gig too. I do like Lemon Jelly, a lot, but i wasn'tTedhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11512933382945634150noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3126742.post-900163422003-03-02T23:42:00.000+01:002003-03-03T00:46:38.000+01:00Ooh! Just noticed that the results are up. Click here and then stick my race number '3131' into the clever search thing, to see my official, er, stuff. (My actual time turned out to be 2 seconds quicker than i thought, 1hr:56mins:10secs, hurrah!) By the way, here's some other tedious information you may not be interested in, from my heart rate monitor: Average Heart rate 162bpm. Energy burned Tedhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11512933382945634150noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3126742.post-900157662003-03-02T23:28:00.000+01:002003-03-02T23:37:39.000+01:00You know the kind of tiredness, where you're too tired to just go to sleep? That's the type of tiredness i'm currently experiencing, and hence i'm writing this, rather than going to bed. Although, i could nod off at any point, so if this post ends with zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz. I've probably fallen asleep with my nose on the z key.
Regular viewers may know that i did the 'Tedhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11512933382945634150noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3126742.post-891886112003-02-16T16:45:00.000+01:002003-02-16T16:50:23.000+01:00Is it just me, or does everyone find that their life is just one long backlog of things to do?
Not being the best in the world at prioritising tasks either, i constantly find myself starting one job, and then halfway through realising i've got something else to do that's more important, leaving the first job, starting something else, and then doing the same with that job 10 minutes later.
HenceTedhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11512933382945634150noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3126742.post-891104032003-02-14T21:50:00.000+01:002003-02-16T16:46:33.000+01:00How gay am i? I've just got completely choked up watching Mark Fowler's final scene in Eastenders, where he tells his Mum he's dying of AIDS and then rides off into the sunset (Rainy night actually - come on, this is Eastenders after all). Sad i know, but it was surprisingly moving. Maybe i'm just tired and emotional after my first run with the Local Running Club :oS
Anyway i would write more,Tedhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11512933382945634150noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3126742.post-890481842003-02-13T20:53:00.000+01:002003-02-13T21:11:36.000+01:00You may have guessed from the lack of excited posts about snowboarding, that sadly we didn't get snowed into Pas for another week. Although we did have to take a massive detour through Spain, so we got to see a bit more of the beautiful Pyrenees (Very NZ-esque), as well as some extremely Jean de Florette style villages when we finally made it back into France.
The bus journey began at 5am so itTedhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11512933382945634150noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3126742.post-883487232003-01-31T23:18:00.000+01:002003-01-31T23:18:54.000+01:00It´s been snowing in Pas de la Casa for 4 days.
It´s forecast to snow for 4 more days.
The access roads are closed.
I´ve learnt to snowboard.
You may never see me again.
Woooooooooooooooooooh!!!Tedhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11512933382945634150noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3126742.post-880290982003-01-26T03:37:00.000+01:002003-01-26T03:39:14.000+01:00Ted In NZ is closed for Snowboarding
Please forward all enquiries regarding Ted products and services to your regional branch of Ted Industries, for the next week as head office has gone to Pas de la Casa in Andorra to "bust" some "gnarly" "aerials" and "go sick" in some "phat powder", n' stuff.
Pas de la Casa - wooTedhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11512933382945634150noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3126742.post-877583822003-01-21T02:57:00.000+01:002003-01-21T03:07:15.000+01:00Genius is a very over-used adjective these days, but i suspect that Wayne Coyne, lead singer of the Flaming Lips is indeed a genius of some kind. I've just got back from seeing them play at Rock City, and my face is still hurting from the stupid grin that i've been wearing all night.
I would write more about them now, but i can't remember the last time i had more that 5 hours sleep before going Tedhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11512933382945634150noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3126742.post-877046842003-01-20T03:11:00.000+01:002003-01-20T03:16:20.000+01:00Has anyone else, approaching the age of 29, noticed that their eyebrow hairs are getting annoyingly long?
I suppose it'll be unsightly nose & ear hair next. Time to invest in a Remington FuzzAway or something i suppose, sigh....
Happily the annoyance of annoying hair is offset by the fact that i'm going to see the Flaming Lips at Rock city tomorrow night with Pablo, and also that i bought the Tedhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11512933382945634150noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3126742.post-870297322003-01-07T00:33:00.000+01:002003-01-07T00:33:26.000+01:00Do you ever worry that technology is slowly taking over the world? That computers have pervaded every aspect of our lives, and their evil AI is plotting to turn human kind into a race of brainless slaves, merely existing to wind up their batteries?
I do. And I have the proof that their dastardly war on human kind has already begun.
There is something in my sister's bedroom that goes beep Tedhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11512933382945634150noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3126742.post-867596692002-12-31T20:58:00.000+01:002003-01-03T01:38:25.000+01:00A quick hello & merry new year to you all.
I do hope the new year gets a bit happier for everyone than this year has finished up. Virtually everyone i know (Sadly including me) seems to have some kind of horrible heartbreak going on, or major life alterations to go through.
It can't believe it's only been a year since i was paragliding over Taylor's mistake to finish off 2001, that seems likeTedhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11512933382945634150noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3126742.post-858108542002-12-11T01:57:00.000+01:002002-12-11T01:57:34.463+01:00Just thought i'd share something i learnt today with you all.
Never give anything to charity shops before checking what it's worth on on ebay. Some of the old Carp fishing books i gave away a few weeks ago are apparently worth about £50 each, as they're all out of print. ARSEBURGER!
I would tell you the titles, but i've ordered Mother off on a reconaisance mission first thing tomorrow morning, Tedhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11512933382945634150noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3126742.post-856218132002-12-07T03:53:00.000+01:002002-12-07T04:05:50.000+01:00coo ee. I'm still here.
I suppose the lack of posts is mainly down to my own inherent laziness, but my other excuse is that life is still pretty hard work for me at the moment. As i said before it's not the sort of stuff that i'd want to plaster all over the internet, and while it's all still going on, it's kind of hard to come up with amusing anecdotes about all the fun i'm having at work, how Tedhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11512933382945634150noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3126742.post-836920562002-10-29T02:31:00.000+01:002002-10-29T03:00:38.000+01:00Shock horror probe: Ted posts to his webshite!
Sorry it's been so many eons since i last wrote anything here, but i've been going through a fairly crappy period in life, and haven't really had the emotional energy to come up with much positive stuff to write about. Does that sound a bit melodramatic? Maybe. Anyway, if you know me, you'll know what i'm on about, and if you don't, you don't want Tedhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11512933382945634150noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3126742.post-823788882002-10-01T20:47:00.000+01:002002-10-02T01:38:09.000+01:00Coo 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?!). Tedhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11512933382945634150noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3126742.post-819761482002-09-23T04:13:00.000+01:002002-09-23T04:31:01.000+01:00Hiya. As people are still visiting the site, and i've not got around to finishing off my new site, i thought i should keep posting on here for now.
Well, there is life after New Zealand. It's just a bit different.
I've gradually caught up with all my old mates, and seen all my old Lestar haunts, so the novelty of being back is wearing off, and i'm having to get back to having a 'normal' life Tedhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11512933382945634150noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3126742.post-814287782002-09-11T01:21:00.000+01:002002-09-11T03:54:23.000+01:00Despite doing my best to miss my plane home, i'm now sitting back in "good old" Leicester.
I spent far too long in an internet caff writing the last two posts in Vancouver, so i didn't leave myself much time to get over to the North shore, to do the Grouse Grind. But, i really wanted to do it, and finish my year off in style, so i went for it anyway. I managed to knock 4 mins off my last time, Tedhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11512933382945634150noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3126742.post-810059302002-09-01T23:15:00.000+01:002002-09-01T23:15:51.733+01:00Without wanting to get too nauseating here, by way of a bit of a conclusion for my years travelling, i'd like to quote Jeff Tweedy (Lead singer of Wilco) who last night sang,
"There's so much less to this than meets the eye".
Can't remember which song it was from (I'd had several pints of Kokanee by then), or what on earth he actually meant by it, but to me, it sort of summed up how i've come Tedhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11512933382945634150noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3126742.post-810054522002-09-01T22:58:00.000+01:002002-09-01T22:58:14.033+01:00Sorry for the total lack of updates lately. My only excuse is that i've been having far too good a time here in the land of Bryan Adams and checked shirts, to be faffing around in front of a computer. And i'm sure i'll be getting more than my fair share of computers when i go back to work...
What's been going on then? Well some of the edited highlights follow....
The weeks cycling round Tedhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11512933382945634150noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3126742.post-802665612002-08-15T08:09:00.000+01:002002-08-15T08:13:19.000+01:00My week in Vancouver is just about over, so what else have i been up to, other than watching big gay fireworks displays and grooving to weird Icelandic bands?
I went to the cinema the other night, and watched 'The road to Perdition'. The gangster subject area is a bit of a departure from American Beauty, for Sam Mendes, but it's done in a similar style, and is very enjoyable.
The plot was Tedhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11512933382945634150noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3126742.post-802436242002-08-14T20:53:00.000+01:002002-08-14T20:55:38.000+01:00Went to the Mum gig last night (How cool is that? Going to see an Icelandic band in Vancouver), wonderful in every possible way.
The venue, 'Richard's on Richards', was nicely laid out (I watched the gig from up on a balcony), had plenty of character, and a cool red brick wall behind the band, that you seem to see in loads of North American venues. I learnt however, that in a previous, Tedhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11512933382945634150noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3126742.post-801187812002-08-12T03:07:00.000+01:002002-08-12T03:09:34.000+01:00Although i may have been a stick in the mud when it came to going to fireworks displays in the past, when I found out that the Grand finale of the 'World championships' of fireworks displays was taking place in Vancouver last night, i couldn't really pass up the chance to go along.
I headed down there with a couple of lads from my room at the Global Village backpackers, who oddly seemed like Tedhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11512933382945634150noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3126742.post-800759412002-08-10T21:49:00.000+01:002002-08-10T21:58:32.000+01:00Yay! Dem Blue boys be rockin' it! 2-0 to the City!
Did anyone go to the game? What was the ground like? Were we as good as it seems? What's up with the Omen theme?
Go Deano!
Even the Hawks won too!Tedhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11512933382945634150noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3126742.post-800754752002-08-10T21:31:00.000+01:002002-08-10T21:33:12.000+01:00Bad news - i'm not in Hawaii anymore.
Good news - i'm in Canada - hurrah!
Vancouver seems like a fairly happening type of place thus far, and as is traditional i'm living in the Red light district.
All i've found out about the place so far is that there's an excellent, cheap pizza place down the road from the hostel - huge slices for $1.50 and run by a comedy New Yoik Eyetalian, who i expected Tedhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11512933382945634150noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3126742.post-799763062002-08-08T11:24:00.000+01:002002-08-12T02:47:26.000+01:00I survived the worst that Kilauea could throw at me. Which turned out to be a slow ooze of lava, and an awful lot of steam where the poor unsuspecting Pacific washed up onto a load of 2000c liquid rock - ouch!
The road leading to the lava flow was rather surreal, a perfectly good highway, until you came up to a huge, black field of congealed lava, leading from the summit all the way to the oceanTedhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11512933382945634150noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3126742.post-797700112002-08-03T11:40:00.000+01:002002-08-03T11:55:23.000+01:00Aloha! Would you belive i'm writing this (Into a notebook) sitting under a Palm tree on Waikiki beach? Not bad!
The surf's not particularly up today, so there aren't many surfers about. There are however plenty of sun bathers and tourist geeks hanging around the beach.
Not sure if Waikiki is my cup of tea really, there's just too many people & hi-rise hotels (Driving into it at night you'd Tedhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11512933382945634150noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3126742.post-796820682002-08-01T11:20:00.000+01:002002-08-03T11:56:38.000+01:00
Hi, i'm Darren Hanlon, and I ROCK!
I know my taste in music is often derided by friends at home, (and now by people all over the world actually) But this time I'M RIGHT, ok?
Darren Hanlon, label mate of The Lucksmiths - is ACE (If time allowed i'd bang on about his witty, intelligent lyrics and super catchy, melodic pop songs, but it doesn't, so i won't) So if you happen to be in the UK in theTedhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11512933382945634150noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3126742.post-796816092002-08-01T10:50:00.000+01:002002-08-01T10:56:04.000+01:00Well, it's my last night in Aussie so i suppose i should fill you in on all the exciting, action packed activities i've been up to since i last posted on here.
I'd love to, but unfortunately the most extreme thing i've done in the last few days is to, er, play a round of, ahem, golf.
Honestly, i tried to go Paragliding, but unfortunately i underestimated just how out of season Apollo bay would Tedhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11512933382945634150noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3126742.post-796811892002-08-01T10:25:00.000+01:002002-08-01T10:25:31.646+01:00Depressingly since leaving NZ, and my mobile phone, behind i've come to realise just how useful the annoying little things are.
For instance, if i had a mobile phone over here Emma and I could have avoided waiting for each other on the wrong street corners for half an hour, on a rather chilly Melbourne night. (To be specific, i would have realised I was on the wrong street corner a bit sooner.)
Tedhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11512933382945634150noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3126742.post-795324882002-07-29T04:31:00.000+01:002002-07-29T04:31:47.000+01:00Just a quick post as i've got to get one's arse onto the train to Geelong in half an hour....
Having a great time here in Melbourne, thanks in no small part to Emma, who's been driving me all over town to various groovy bits of Melbourne. It's a truly cosmopolitan type of place, and i think i could happily spend a bit of time here. Sadly my plane ticket says o have to leave on Friday at 7.15am (Tedhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11512933382945634150noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3126742.post-794304912002-07-26T09:32:00.000+01:002002-07-26T09:34:22.000+01:00Well i'm still sat in the same internet bar only a day later. Had a quiet night in last night, with Emma and Phoebe, watching the Footy show in preparation for my trip to see my first Aussie Rules game this saturday, Hawthorn vs Brisbane.
I've spent the day looking round the venue for the game too, the MCG. The tram i was on going into town passed right by it, so i hopped off for a quick look Tedhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11512933382945634150noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3126742.post-793827182002-07-25T07:40:00.000+01:002002-07-26T09:04:17.000+01:00My whistlestop tour of Aussie continues apace. I've just arrived in Melbourne, and am currently located in a rather swish internet cafe/bar called E55, thanks for the recommendation Ted's Sister :oD
24 hours passes....Tedhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11512933382945634150noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3126742.post-792945932002-07-23T09:29:00.000+01:002002-07-23T09:34:30.000+01:00G'day from Aussie cobbers!
Sorry for the tediously obvious intro, but i've made it to Australia, and they do actually say things like that. Honest.
My last few hours in NZ were super emotional, for a number of reasons.
(1) I was leaving a bunch of really dear friends
(2) I was typically unprepared, and finished my packing at 4am ish, approximately an hour before my flight left
(3) I drank a Tedhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11512933382945634150noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3126742.post-790995302002-07-18T08:44:00.000+01:002002-07-18T08:44:38.633+01:00What am doing! I've not even packed, and i'm farting around here doing a page of photos mainly taken from my north island travels - IDIOT!Tedhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11512933382945634150noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3126742.post-790988052002-07-18T08:08:00.000+01:002002-07-18T08:23:22.000+01:00AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAARGH!!
10 hours left in NZ, and frankly i'm feeling quite weird. I've not packed, i've got loads of painful goodbyes still to do and i don't actually want to leave NZ :o(
On the bright side though, i've spoken to Gill, my contact in Aussie, and discovered that Aimee has very kindly said that i can stay in her flat in Sydney for a night. Which is going to make turning Tedhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11512933382945634150noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3126742.post-790100992002-07-16T08:31:00.000+01:002002-07-16T08:33:15.000+01:00Just a quick note to those of you that phone / send me text messages on my cellphone. I'm selling it before i leave NZ, so if you want to get in touch, you have until Thursday night NZ time.
It's new owner will be a Greek, Bass-player with a Rabbit obsession, so feel free to carry on texting my number, but just make sure that you don't say anything nasty about Watership Down, OK?Tedhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11512933382945634150noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3126742.post-789662682002-07-15T09:46:00.000+01:002002-07-16T08:26:06.000+01:00Sorry for the usual lack of posts, but i've got a proper excuse this time, a bruised / cracked rib! A legacy of my snowboarding trip last weekend :o(
I thought it was just a mild bash - one of several i sustained. But as all my other injuries started to heal, my rib remained rather painful, especially when standing up, sitting down, laughing, sneezing, coughing and hiccupping. So a planned Tedhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11512933382945634150noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3126742.post-789655402002-07-15T09:05:00.000+01:002002-07-15T09:51:11.000+01:00NZ Nature Time
Hi! and welcome to my latest article on the nature of New Zealand. This time we're going to be looking at Possums, Cute Bunny Rabbits and Kahu Hawks.
PossumRabbitKahu Hawk
Possums, an species introduced to NZ, cause considerable environmental damage here, chewing their way through no end of irreplaceable Native Podocarp Forest, thereby ruining the habitats of numerous other Tedhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11512933382945634150noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3126742.post-787664962002-07-10T07:44:00.000+01:002002-07-10T07:56:40.000+01:00Hiya! Just arrived back in the 'church after my mini-snowboarding holiday down south with Michael, Emma, Phoebe, Jo and Wee Al.
A good time was had by all. Everyone got loads better at skiing, and didn't fall over too much. Unfortunately for me, i was snowboarding. I got a bit better, and fell over lots. And lots. And lots.
Me, recently
I would write more now, but i've been driving for Tedhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11512933382945634150noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3126742.post-785467852002-07-04T13:11:00.000+01:002002-07-04T13:11:10.630+01:00Oh, just remembered something that happened tonight, might not be worth mentioning......
And before any questions are asked about the victory....
YES - It was a against a full team of able bodied, adult, men, who have played cricket previously on a number of occasions.
NO - We did not have sand in our pockets, or take any performance enhancing drugs before the game.
YES - It was despite me. ITedhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11512933382945634150noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3126742.post-785462772002-07-04T12:42:00.000+01:002002-07-04T12:50:57.000+01:00Sorry for my webslackness lately. I have actually been doing some fairly fun stuff recently, but just haven't got around to yakking on about it yet. Mainly due to working long hours getting my software finished off before i leave the country, combined with laziness.
The best thing i've done recently has been snowboarding. Although at times during my first lesson at Mount Hutt i must admit i Tedhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11512933382945634150noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3126742.post-784122582002-07-01T10:46:00.000+01:002002-07-01T11:03:52.000+01:00Sob! Wail! Moan!
Today I finalised the dates on my flights out of New Zealand. I leave on the 19th July. Aaaaargh!
Looking on the bright side though, on the way home I get to go to go the following places, and do the following things :-
Sydney: Blue Mountains, Lucksmiths and Gomez gigs
Melbourne: Aussie rules games, visit Neigbours set
Hawaii: Groove to Hawaian guitar, stupid shirts, more Tedhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11512933382945634150noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3126742.post-781702752002-06-25T09:54:00.000+01:002002-06-25T10:03:14.000+01:00Ever get the feeling you're being watched?
Well in NZ - we are! 'The Man' has set up a series of webcams attached to small birds, fitted with aerials, which then send back data to the Central Control Bunker in Auckland. Don't believe me? Well click here, enter an address, and spy on the hapless proles below.
I'm at 146 (almost), High Street, Christchurch, and look something like this
Tedhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11512933382945634150noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3126742.post-781265432002-06-24T10:56:00.000+01:002002-06-24T10:56:32.133+01:00Woo! Back in one piece from a "days" Skiing (Sorry no 'Boarding Alison) at Mount Hutt.
I say a day, but due to the fickleness of the weather and the driver's side window on the mighty Toyota Corona, i only managed 20 minutes of skiing :o( Before setting off the car window got stuck in the 'down' position, and so the best part of an hour was spent dismantling the door, wiggling it around and Tedhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11512933382945634150noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3126742.post-780580972002-06-22T08:28:00.000+01:002002-06-22T08:29:40.000+01:00
Note: Looking at this post, you may be thinking (a) I'm a bad loser, and (b) i have too much spare time. Guilty as charged on both counts. But in my defence i have to say (1) i feel a lot better now i've made my stand against the Rivaldo's of the world, and (2) i'm going snowboarding tomorrow. Are Rivaldo, or Ronaldinho? I think not. Ha! :op Tedhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11512933382945634150noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3126742.post-780132932002-06-21T06:37:00.000+01:002002-06-21T06:39:24.000+01:00Have been taking advantage of the NZ tradition of drinking booze in the office on a Friday afternoon, to prepare for, in my opinion, the biggest football match of the 21st century.
Am heading down to Madison's pub to watch the game, and then going for a birthday (+ celebratory, hopefully) curry with Michael.
COME
ON ENGLAND!!!!
Tedhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11512933382945634150noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3126742.post-778389132002-06-17T09:46:00.000+01:002002-06-17T09:46:30.636+01:00The Indoor Cricket travesties continue. We had a game on Sunday night against a team whose members included a woman, and a child.
Did we still lose? Mais oui!
Attempting to look on the bright side, Michael and I had the biggest partnership for our team! (40) And i even contributed a positive amount to it!! (15). Sadly my bowling was as hapless as ever, and played a key part in narrowly Tedhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11512933382945634150noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3126742.post-778382702002-06-17T09:09:00.000+01:002002-06-17T09:53:42.000+01:00More Pics! Climbing Mount Taranaki - A journey 2.5 kilometres into the sky! Woo!
Ooh! it's like an Orb video or summat...
Tedhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11512933382945634150noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3126742.post-778381582002-06-17T09:03:00.000+01:002002-06-17T09:05:25.000+01:00Open letter to all NZ home owners:
Dear Mr / Mrs Whoever,
It's the year 2002. "Double glazing" and "Central heating" technology is widely available, and has been proven to work quite nicely.
It helps remove the need to sit on your sofa shivering, in 10 layers of clothing and a sleeping bag, in front of a crappy fan heater while trying to concetrate on Tedhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11512933382945634150noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3126742.post-777672542002-06-15T05:40:00.000+01:002002-06-15T05:40:46.000+01:00More pics are up, this time from the Tongariro Crossing. Enjoy - or die.
Tedhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11512933382945634150noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3126742.post-777671762002-06-15T05:38:00.000+01:002002-06-15T05:45:48.000+01:00I may be getting influenced by the Rugby types in the bars where i've been watching the World Cup, but doesn't there seem to be more & worse diving going on than ever before? Rather than watching out for pieces of "Liquid football" i find myself analysing every tackle for signs of diving.
In particular the South Korea Vs Portugal game last night. That second sending off was awful! Then, down to Tedhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11512933382945634150noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3126742.post-777330392002-06-14T09:49:00.000+01:002002-06-14T09:50:48.000+01:00I thought i'd scored a mighty 15 runs at Indoor Cricket last night, but sadly it turned out that the scorer had got Michael and I mixed up, and it was me that had contributed -2 to our partnership of 13, not him. Still it felt like an improvement, as only a dodgy stumping (-5 runs) got me into negative figures (Hmm, i seem to be blaming other people a lot for my own Cricketing failures....). Tedhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11512933382945634150noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3126742.post-776788392002-06-13T03:02:00.000+01:002002-06-13T03:25:33.000+01:00Life's been plodding along in a pleasant if not entirely exciting way lately.
Weekdays consist of :-
Wake up at 9:30am. Have breakfast while listening to the latest CD that Andy has lent me (This morning it was Grant Lee Phillips) or watching the Shortland Street rerun. Potter off to work at 11am. Do work till 6pm. Do emails / surf interweb / burn CD's till 8pm. Go and watch world cup in pub, Tedhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11512933382945634150noreply@blogger.com0