Monthly Archives: September 2008

Lost balls!

I am a regular golf player! I usually manage to fit in a game about once every two years. The last time I played golf was back in Australia almost two years ago, when my brother visited me over there, and yesterday he suggested that it was about time to play again. It was a […]

Coming To America.

I am currently in London for a final couple of days before heading off to Germany, and the Munich Octoberfest. From Munich I fly to the States, which I am very excited about, as the only part of America I have seen before is Florida. I arrive in New York on Monday 6th October, and […]

Museums.

I’m back in London now, and looking forward to the next part of my trip, which takes me mid next week to Munich for the Oktoberfest Beer Festival, and then on from there to New York and across the USA. So yesterday I had booked an appointment at the UK Passport Office to renew my […]

Famous on the internet!

When I first launched the “ALife4Sale” website, the publicity was absolutely incredible! I was in newspapers all over the world, on TV in Australia, UK, America and Japan, and on radio shows worldwide. One guy who heard about my sale was Evan White, a PR agent in Los Angeles, who contacted me pretty early on […]

Bridlington.

In 2000 I returned to Scarborough after my second trip to Australia, with no job, and not much money. I was lucky to get a job pretty quickly with a local mobile phone company as a salesperson. It was through this job I met my friend Jamie, and his wife Chantel. They still live nearby, […]

Scarborough.

Scarborough is such a huge part of my life, and coming back here is always a strange and slightly unsettling experience. I lived here from 1993 until the end of 2001, when I left to live in Australia, and those years were absolutely brilliant. In 1992 my friend Bruce and I started out jet ski […]

Whitby.

After the dive from the top board at the Dolphin Centre I spent the afternoon with family in Barnard Castle again, and we had a lovely lunch in The Old Well. After playing some games at home later in the afternoon we said our goodbyes, and I had to sign a piece of paper for […]

Goal Number 7 causes a bit of a splash!

I am back here in Darlington to put right something that I did not dare do as a youngster. I was hoping to dive of the top board at Bishop Auckland swimming pool, but that is out of the question, see Thursday’s blog for more info. So this morning, after a false start on Friday […]

Barnard Castle.

Barnard Castle, or Barney as locals call it, is a very picturesque market town. This is where I grew up, and I love coming back here. I still know a few people here, and when you go out you get that real small-town feel, as everybody seems to know everyone else. I drove through this […]

Darlington.

Well, I am back where I was born, in Darlington in the north-east of England, here to visit family and friends still in the area. I found out that the current Tour of Britain cycle race was starting from the town centre this morning, but I was a bit late going down, and by the […]

Next goal – I have run into a small problem!

My next couple of planned goals are proving to be a bit tricky! Last Saturday was meant to be a gathering of Ian Ushers in London, but unfortunately the Ians are spread all over the UK, and travel is very expensive. There was one Ian definitely confirmed, but on my return from Paris, I found […]

Isn’t it ironic, don’t you think?

A little too ironic…. The author of the book “100 Things To Do Before You Die!” just died on 17th August. Unfortunately Dave Freeman had only completed about half of the list that he and co-author Neil Teplica had created. And how did he die? Running with the bulls in Pamplona? A terrible crash in […]

Is anyone else selling their life?

While in London a few days ago I met with Michelle, a producer from UK-based company Whizz Kid Entertainment Ltd. They are currently planning a documentary called “Life For Sale”, and are currently looking for people who want to sell up and realise their dreams. I guess I am already doing this, so they are […]

The Horn Dance!

After driving about three hours north from London I arrived last night at my cousin’s home. I saw them recently in the south of France, when visiting the lovely villa they had rented there for a fortnight, but the whole family hadn’t been there, so wanted to call in on the way through. “Do you […]

Heading north – England underwater!

When I planned to arrive in England at the end of August, I thought it would be good to catch the end of the English summer. I must have been away too long, and forgotten how summer is here! When I flew into Gatwick last weekend it was grey and rainy. On the news this […]

Paris.

Paris really is a picture-postcard city. You feel that you are absolutely spoilt as to which way to point your camera, and I think I got a bit trigger happy initially, and took a lot of photos. After climbing the Eiffel Tower the three of us wandered south along the Seine, to see a small […]

Goal number 6 completed!

Well, things took a surprising turn just a few days ago, when I got an email from a company which offers assistance to other companies exibiting around the world. Philippe from EIE Global wondered if there was anything his company could do to help me with my challenges. He explained that his company specialised in […]

Wakeboarding.

I have been mourning the loss of Cables WaterSki Park in Perth for several years now. We visited it several times in the first couple of years that we lived in Australia. As we were building our first home in Perth, Cables was going to be almost directly on my way home from work, and […]

Eiffel Tower on Friday! Come and join in!

While in France I didn’t manage to get up to Paris to see the Eiffel Tower, spending most of my time in the beautiful southern part of the country. However, now that I am in London, with the rail tunnel under the Channel, it is only just over two hours by train to Paris. So […]

French newspaper article – Le Monde

The wine is SO cheap in Spain! As Graham and family in Valencia had been so kind in accomodating and feeding me while I was there, I thought I would buy some wine for the last couple of evenings, and as a celebration for us completing goal number 5 together. In the supermarket I was […]

More Tomatina pix.

I bought a waterproof camera for the Tomatina, and left it to be developed in Valencia. Graham has just emailed me copies of the pictures. I took a few pix right in the middle of the tomato throwing crowd. Here is an idea of how packed and crazy it was:-

London.

We flew into London yesterday morning, and I was expecting my brother to be there to meet us at the Arrivals area at Gatwick. No sign of him! When I turned my phone on I got a text message from him saying that they had been held up on the M25, by a dog on […]