Our airbed had slowly deflated during the night meaning we woke up flat on the cold hard floor. Oddly this was quite refreshing and my back feels better for the experience. Tea. Toast.
Looking up and out at the hills surrounding my sisters house I didn't fully grasp the scale. From here they seem to rise a little then give way to a slightly taller ( Read more... )

I know my headaches. A dull thump between eye and ear coupled with sore throat is a hangover, aching neck and sore eyes is sleep deprivation and a pulsing frontal lobe is heatstroke. I groaned and rolled out of bed with an aggregate of all three. I think we'd knocked ourselves out over the last few days so a quiet one was in order. So we went to ( Read more... )

Wellington today. We decided to get out of my sisters hair and take a boot around the capital. We got dropped at the train station and as we sat waiting I realised I've been trying to notice all the differences between home and here. Stuff like the milk coming in different shaped bottles or some of the buses being electric. This is a waste of time ( Read more... )

Slept log like until 6am or so when the body clock told me to get a wriggle on and get to work. But there was no work. I wanted more sleep but I couldn't keep my eyes shut. This isn't something I normally suffer from. As the sun rose over the surrounding hills turning the sky a vibrant red I sipped my tea and stared at the clouds forming over the ( Read more... )

Let me start with some tips for long haul flights, more as an aid memoir for me than for anyone else.
Pack your toothbrush and deodorant in hand luggage
Pack a spare T shirt, socks and underwear in hand luggage
Don't expect to get any sleep in the sitting position without contorting yourself into whirls of agony
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Are the best band names I could think of for my imaginary band. Me on the bass playing percussive bass lines stamping out a rhythm along with the drums, think Shellac or The Jesus Lizard. Guitars like an RSJ clanking an electricity pylon. Sounding like Young Widows or Refused of These Arms are Snakes, even Cove. I’d sing a screamy emoish vocal with ( Read more... )

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1. Squirrel Nut Zippers are back
2. I'm unemployed for a week
3. The windows are open and I'm not cold
4. Antibodies are confirmed for an E.P release in Canada (sounds grander than it is)
   
5. The tracks for the above E.P sound immense (courtesy of the Mighty Mighty
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