Monthly Archives: May 2008

22 days to go!! The “Big Freeze” in Perth.

Internet use at work is always a source of entertainment. Sometimes there can be a fine line between what could be classed as work, and what is purely personal use. For example, the other day I was tasked with finding a suitable means of back-up for important computer files in the shop. For me, this […]

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24 days to go!! “Lyrics of your life”

Last night I decided to answer a few emails, and respond to a few Bulletin Board postings that I been neglecting for a while. I cracked a bottle of wine, and made a start after dinner, and progressed well. As the evening progressed the lovely Margaret River Semillon Sauvignon Blanc went pretty well too, and […]

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26 days to go!! Auction Sniping!

Early in the build up to my auction I had quite a few questions for eBay about exactly how I would be able to list my auction. I needed to confirm that they would have no issues with what I was doing, and that the sale would be able to run smoothly. So after some […]

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27 days to go!! How can you leave it all behind?

Another question I often get asked is how I can walk away from everything that I own. Well, firstly, I’m not the kind of person who accumulates too much in the way of memorabilia and meaningful objects. My home is pretty functional and fairly minimalist. It’s just easier to keep tidy that way, I suppose. […]

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28 days to go!! Creating a new life.

At the end of last year I went to Tasmania for my friends Chris and Jase’s wedding. I had never been to Tasmania before, so decide to stay there for a few extra days, and hired a car and drove around for five days or so. It is a beautiful place, very mountainous and rugged, […]

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31 days to go!! One month and counting…

Well, it’s the 22nd May today, exactly one month until the start of the auction. I think it all now seems a bit unreal, as it is a couple of months since I launched the website, and after the initial spike of interest, things have slowly returned to normal. For the past month I have […]

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32 days to go!! A couple of interesting blogs.

According to Technorati, a website which monitors blogs and blog connections, to date ALife4Sale.com has now been mentioned in 428 different blogs!! Here are a just a few of the more unusual ones that I found (update 2019 – links removed as most have disappeared over time). The Ian Usher Saga! A Japanese to English […]

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35 days to go!! “Carn the Dockers!!”

When I first arrived in Perth to live six years ago we moved into a big shared house by the ocean in City Beach. One of the guys who lived there, Craigo, was a big fan of Australian Rules Football, or “Aussie Rules”. His team was the Fremantle Dockers, and he was a keen supporter, […]

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36 days to go!! Tattoos and piercings.

Like most people, over the years my body has been subjected to injury or change. Some things are unintentional – a broken collar bone here, a scar there – but other “modifications” are more deliberate. When I was at college in Liverpool I had a tattoo done on my shoulder and in more recent years, […]

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38 days to go!! If…

IF… If you can keep your head when all about you Are losing theirs and blaming it on you, If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you But make allowance for their doubting too, If you can wait and not be tired by waiting, Or being lied about, don’t deal in lies, Or […]

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39 days to go!! New house guests.

Things have changed a bit at my house over the past couple of days. In December I finished working up in the mines in far north Western Australia, and took a couple of months off to travel in a camper van across Australia. While over in New South Wales I visited my friend Alan and […]

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41 days to go!! New mirror in the dining room.

Sometimes when you have thought about something for quite a while, you build up expectations of how it will be. And sometimes things just do not work out how you imagined they would. That is how life it, but it can be pretty frustrating! I have had cause to stop and consider expectations this weekend, […]

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42 days to go!! Paint the roof pink!

A friend of mine has a poster in her dining room which features a cartoon drawing from an humourist named Mordillo. She says that it hangs there in plain view as a reminder to “paint the roof pink” as often as possible in her life. I like this sort of attitude as it reflects my […]

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44 days to go!! The Big Freeze!!

I think that perhaps if you have read much of my website, or some of my blog postings, you have perhaps realised that I have on occasion chosen a slightly different path in life. I have never really liked to fit into a mould, and have enjoyed many years of quite unusual self-employment, alongside the […]

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45 days to go!! Movie news…

I did my first skydive at the age of sixteen. My father treated me to the finest birthday present I’d ever had. I was going to do a static-line jump, which means that all you actually have to do is jump out successfully. A line attached from the parachute rig to the plane causes the […]

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47 days to go!! Speakers by the spa!

I occasionally get asked whether I will be listing the contents of my cupboards and drawers. A few people have asked why, after spending so much time and effort photographing my house, I haven’t photographed or itemized the contents of the entire house. My original approach was simply to detail anything of value: the house, […]

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51 days to go!! Never get so busy that…

I have a picture in my living room, on the wall to the right of the projector screen. Laura and I bought it several years ago when we visited renowned Australian photographer Ken Duncan’s Gallery in Matcham, which is on the Central Coast in New South Wales. The gallery was almost right next door to […]

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52 days to go!! Pom Gone Walkabout.

I got an email from Eric Cullen about his website, “Pom Gone Walkabout”. Eric Cullen, age 47 and still very much a young boy at heart. He’s a product of the 1960’s, born of English parentage in the midlands town of Loughcaster. Forever young in mind, spirit and adventure, Eric is horribly trapped inside the […]

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