The weekend was a good one, but a sad one. On the lead-up I got to see my grans, my aunt and uncle, my lovely little cousin (all Glasgow) and my parents (in Perth). Champagne was had, far too much money was donated and hugs were exchanged. Oh, and Wee Louise now has a PC [...]

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Well, this is typical. I’ve not even left the country yet and I’ve had my first brush with the law. Yesterday I drove all the way from Bradford to Johnstone. This morning I drove from there to Perth. In total about 350 miles, give or take. There’s a big roundabout at the end of the [...]

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Over the last 2 nights, Chris has been helping me shift large boxes of utter rubbish that I should have thrown out years ago. Kim’s inherited most of my furniture and I’m currently tucked up in bed at my aunt’s in Johnstone with a van outside containing virtually all my worldly possessions. With Chris having [...]

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Monday night. Tonight’s aim is to get virtually everything I need for a 12-to-24-month trip into one large and one small rucksack. And I’ve not bought the small one yet. 20kgs into the big, and 7kg (plus laptop) into the small. I really hoped to get this done yesterday, but I squeezed in quick visits [...]

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If you have a shufty down the right hand side you can now “subscribe” to this blog using Bloglet. Whenever I post something new, you’ll get an email sometime later that day with the first smidgen of the post in, and a link to the blog. No spam, no adverts, no fancy HTML emails, just [...]

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Next week I empty my house and move all my possessions north to my parents’. Chris, bless ‘im, has volunteered to help me move everything out of the loft and also to deliver some of my furniture to a friend who’s just had a baby. I’m very much in the throes of “have I done [...]

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I’ve swapped a few emails with the webmaster at the Tiger Temple and I should, hopefully, be spending a week there in early April. It appears, though, that this is as long as I can spend there. Unsurprisingly, they have a lot of volunteers! If this is the case, I’ll be moving on to Blue [...]

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Well, this past weekend was spent with a bunch of nutters in Ely and Cambridge – Dawn, Colin, Elly (Colin’s other – and much prettier – half) and Damo. I drove down on Friday night as I had to drop a car-full of ZZ9 merchandise off with Dave who lives near Cambridge. One of the [...]

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All the UK dates are the same as published in the first post, but after I arrive in Thailand… things get a bit hazy! I have volunteered to spend up to 6 months working at the Tiger Temple near Kanchanaburi and they’ve agreed to let me have a “trial” for a week in early April. [...]

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