And as I prepare to leave a country I love, direction once again confounds me. I’ve taken more paths and chosen more roads yet the world is still spinning around me. Conflicting emotions about how to ‘travel’ are repeatedly rearing their heads; sometimes I feel the coil of life unravel, my heart aching beneath my … More The World Will Still Spin At My Feet
Yesterday I heard the awful news that a terrorist attack had occurred in Manchester. Yesterday, I read how so many innocent people had lost their lives. Yesterday, I cried watching the news; the stories, the vigils, the Facebook updates, the videos. Yesterday I phoned my friend to see if she was ok. Yesterday, I stood … More England, I’m coming home.
It’s been a month since I last wrote or published a blog post. Wow. For a budding writer with a burgeoning passion and flair for wordscraftmanship, with a wanton desire to become a published author or reporter, and a penchant for spinning a yarn, whether that be a yarn of interesting prose or an essay … More A change is as good as a rest?
Will things be any better the second time around? Is it possible for a second experience to live up to the high expectations you set, to surpass those of the first? Was it, after all, only ever supposed to be experienced once? These are the questions I find myself trying to answer while six months … More Is The Grass Really Greener?
In an effort to kickstart my blog after a lengthy hiatus, I’ve settled on the subject of road trips, and one epic drive in particular: from Perth to Exmouth and back in six little days. Following our departure from Marvel Loch, with a triste and heavy-hearted goodbye, Trine and I arrived in Perth and went … More From Perth to Exmouth; toilet breaks not included
I’ve been in Australia almost four months now, and in Melbourne just over a month, and I’ve been thinking. A lot. So I thought it was about time I wrote something about what’s been happening in my wonderfully exciting life since I left the delights of Marvel Loch and WA. Following a successful and enjoyable … More To Be A Melburnian Or A Mancunian: Are They One And The Same?
It’s been a tad drab here lately. The weather hasn’t been living up to my Western Australian standards, in fact it’s been slightly bi-polar which is frustrating (constant rain, wind and bitter cold, speckled with short bursts of sunshine) and I’ve been feeling particularly lethargic and lacking in energy. Instead of wanting to get outdoors … More Day Fifteen In Marvel Loch
On Tuesday night we had a fire. Don’t worry though, it wasn’t an actual “my house is burning down, save the kids and that photo of Aunty Beryl” kind of fire; exciting things like that don’t happen in Marvel Loch. No, this was a pit fire. A pit fire in the bush…with alcohol! Trine and … More Days all blend together in good old Marvel Loch
In coming to Western Australia during the height of winter, I thought I’d made the ultimate choice; I thought I would’ve hit the jackpot in regards to the weather, as everyone knows Perth and a lot of WA are renowned for being hot all the time, right? Erm…WRONG! To say I have been unpleasantly surprised … More It’s Cold: Day Three in Marvel Loch
You know when the weather during the Great British Summertime decides to do what it usually does and blow an almighty gale and insist on pissing down with incessant rain to the point where you fear your chimney pots might blow off and your fence panels will end up in next doors garden? Yeah well … More Day Two in Marvel Loch: a daytrip to The Big Smoke and a hell of a lot of rain
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