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Ken goes in search of a kangaroo leash. Bit like a dog lead but stretchy to allow for the bounce… Next week, the hunt for a cordless extension lead…
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Looking for a leash
August 26th, 2011Playing for Poland
July 4th, 2011Today’s Kiwese word or phrase: "pigs". Used to hang washing out on the line
Smorgsborg. Generous spread. Germans. Loud. But good spirited. Enthusiastic. Nelson Youth Hostel. Monopoly. Wehrmacht edition I thought. Playing for Poland.
Secret squirrels
June 22nd, 2011
Campsite laundries. Warm and dry. Often home to a small library. Romantic novels. Celebrity tittle-tattle. Even the odd men’s periodical. Railway Modeller. That sort of thing. Women’s magazines. More learned publications. The Monthly. Advertisement for the Australian Secret Intelligence Service. Reminds me of the sort of thing you’d find in the back pages of the Economist. For the UK’s Secret Intelligence Service. Copy cats. Suppose that’s espionage for you.
Threat or suggestion?
June 21st, 2011
Hmmm. Threat? Or suggestion?
Naked art
June 18th, 2011
Brave souls these performance artists. Especially now it’s getting a bit cooler. In New Italy, northern New South Wales. Strong, silent type.
Under covers
June 17th, 2011Laundry. Camp ground in New South Wales. Respectable spot. Browsing amongst the usual books and magazines. Mostly romantic novels and celebrity tittle-tattle. Surprised to discover a men’s periodical. Yep. You guessed correctly. "Railway modeller". Finding it hard to concentrate on the latest Double-O rolling stock. Concerned others might be more easily corrupted. Choosing instead to discreetly insert it inside a recent edition of a popular women’s monthly read. Later guilt. Cosmopolitan can be pretty raunchy.
Cuddly critters
June 17th, 2011
Caution. Drug-crazed teddy bears ahead. Or, for new-comers to the blog, koalas. Sleep sixteen hours a day. When awake stoned out of their tiny minds on eucalyptus leaves. Every family has one…
To the letter
June 14th, 2011Never cease to be surprised how supposedly simple names have several spellings. Sometimes more. Often a bit unusual. In the small North South Wales coastal resort of Kingscliff I’d met Brian and Gaile. Lost track of the different variations of Karen. Always ask. Very important to get someone’s name right. Which recently elicited a little gem from sapphire dealer Gary. "One ’r’. Means you’re straight. Two means you’re gay".
[With apologies to heterosexual Garrys. Unless you’re hiding in the closet]
Not a toilet?
June 12th, 2011
Southport. On Queensland’s Gold Coast. Very touristy. But a toilet? Surely not. There again…
Seeing the world
June 11th, 2011Done quite a few radio interviews. Some TV work. And lots of newspaper articles. All great fun. Varied. But a pleasant surprise recently. A very different take on my venture. "Leave the Navy. See the world". Rather than the usual "Join the Navy. See the World". Nothing wrong with that of course. Besides, much nicer than "Join the Army. Meet lots of interest people. Kill them". Squaddie humour. You can’t beat it.
So now you know. How I stayed off the streets for the last twenty years or so. Actually, I did get to see quite a bit of the world. And left simply because I wanted a change. To head for pastures new whilst I was still enjoying what I was doing. Fabulous time. Of course, everything has its moments. I get seasick. Well, you never really know ’til you join. And then it’s a bit late.
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