The Seven Ages of Facebook
All the world’s a Facebook page, And all the men and women merely players; They have their laptops and their iPhones, And one user in their time plays many…
Day 886: An Open Letter to Tourism Minister Martin Ferguson
05.06.11: After the death threats I received for slagging off the Cape Verde police force on this very blog, I learnt a pertinent lesson: don’t say what you really think…
Day 885: The Frog and The Scorpion
04.06.11: It cracks me up that so much positive emphasis is put on stuff that is ‘natural’. Talk to your average punter in the street and they’ll invariably make the…
Day 884: A Greenpeace of My Mind
03.06.11: There’s a movie that I implore you all to watch: Werner Herzog’s Grizzly Man. It tells the story of an incredibly stupid guy called Timothy Treadwell who thought that…
Day 883: A Breath of Fresh Air
02.06.11: For somebody with my fun-seeking personality traits it may come as a shock to some of you that I’ve never knowingly taken an illegal drug. The closest I’ve got…
Days 816-882: But I’m Still Here
27.03.11-01.06.11: I’ve been in a state of enforced hibernation for the last few months and I guess I owe you all an apology and an explanation. I’m sorry. I knew…
Days 763-815: The Three Most Amazing Things About You
I’ve been "off the horse" for the past couple of months as my older sister Nikki was diagnosed with terminal cancer a short time ago. I flew back to the…
Days 725-762: Where Have You Been?
26.12.10-01.02.11: Well, I was hoping to be back on the road by now, but as anyone who’s been watching the news in the last couple of weeks will tell you,…
For Those In Climate Change Denial…
Regular readers of my blog will know that I have a tendency to go off on tangents occasionally, usually something to do with my deep-seated animosity towards politicians or modernist…
THE ODYSSEY: Review of 2010
January 2010 I started the year in fine fettle. Having met Mandy at the pyramids in Egypt for midnight on New Year's Eve we spent a wonderful week together before…