Pics (yet to be titled and discussed..)

V and J close up!


Shaun and J


J and meeee!


Sandra and Shaun


Me and my chica!

Cork - in pictures.

My camera was playin funny buggers, (overuse) so I didnt take many (see below) Lucky Ian and Steph were snap happy!

Cork - St Patricks Day 2007 - Ian's view

St Patricks Day in Cork, Ireland, The World..

Blarney Castle (see the stone? above the top middle window??!!)

Julez and I - in the Blarney sun

Julez, Kendyl and Stephen

M by Madonna at H & M

A sample of the collection that I couldnt resist purchasing! (Note: latte is not my colour - please visualise the black version ;) I can't believe how much of this stuff was bought purely to make money on ebay!

Surrender ye olde Australian drivers licence

Congestion Charge

In 2003 London became the world’s first major city to introduce a congestion charge to reduce the flow of traffic into its centre from Monday to Friday. While the number of cars entering the ‘congestion zone’ has fallen as a result, driving in London can still be slow, particularly in the rush hour.

As most things in London, It took a long time to accedentally stumble across.

Whilst considering the purchase of a BMW (fulfilling a long term goal - and cause I can) in the UK as an alternative to public transport, I did a bit of research regarding the expense of it all.

Car insurance. Mostly nowadays done online, I filled in my details. £3000 per year..... hmmm... is it really that expensive? Lets do a check.

I changed one key element - international drivers licence to UK drivers licence. £600 per year....

This is something I need to look into further! Locally known as the DVLA, (aka Motor Reg!) I discovered that technically, after 1 year residing in the UK, an Australian drivers licence is invalid. There is however one option. Exchange your Oz licence for a Brit one. Its not all that hard;-

Send in some cash, a painstaking filled in form, your british passport!!!!!!!!!!!, a new passport sized shot and the old Oz licence (you know the one with the nice piccy from when you were in your early 20s). Wait for 3 weeks and hope that some welshperson doesnt accidently misplace/copy/steal/sell on Ebay your British passport.

Well on returning from Cork Ireland for St Pats day, there was my returned passport in the mail. I felt I had slightly betrayed the passport by using my Oz one in its place. But at least I got a stamp!

So its official - I can legally drive in the UK - minus the international insurance price tag status in my bank account!

You know what wakes me up in the middle of the night covered in a cold sweat? Knowing that you aren't any worse than anyone else in your whole screwed up generation. In the old days, you know how you got to the top? Huh? By being better than the guy ahead of you. How do you people get to the top? By being so fucking incompetent, that the guy ahead of you can't do his job, so he falls on his ass and congratulations, you are now on top. And now the top is down here, it used to be up here... and you don't even know the fucking difference.
GO, 1999

Sweet Shanghai..

Its not the end of the world when you leave your holiday in sunny Oz to come back to London for work. Mostly because you forgot about the night stopover in Shanghai as part of the service when flying China Eastern Airlines.

Well we've never been to Asia (officially - airports don't count), so I thought it would be a great taster opportunity.

To say the least, I tasted enough in 20 hours. On arrival, no one knew how to process temporary layover visas, speak english (fair enough), or in layments terms, generally organise a piss up in a brewery.

You can imagine that seeing it was a stopover, it was not a dream of most people on the flight to go to China and most being english, were 'unhappy' to say the least (I promise not to use the 'w' word).

Environmental awareness and health and safety can apparently not be translated into Chinese.. therefore dont exist! see for yourself..

View from the hotel

Another view from the hotel..

Passing smog

'Safe' brekkie

This is my favorite.. (actually referring to customised stamps..no really!)

Oz part 2 - in piccys

My lunch day 1 - Sydney...

Julez posing at the Bluff (no whale sightings!)

The only picture of me - tired or relaxed.. your choice!

Guess where I am Rez (if only we had e-smell..)

Mother Christmas 2006

snapshot fo Oz + first 1/4 of 2007

Hey bro!

Ceazar - and the sea water he drank down Victor!

My Oz/UK/Oz mates!

My buddies - Julez and Ceazar - look at that tongue!

Taronga Zoo Koala - for the tourist in me.