http://www.textick.com Writing, Writing and Writing. Sun, 20 Jan 2008 21:53:27 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Originally Written 27th of November, 2007 Guess what? Yesterday was exactly two years since James and I left Australia, and today is exactly three years since James and I first met. Where oh where oh where has the time gone?? I’m feeling contemplative, and so I thought I’d…I don’t know…recap the ... http://www.textick.com/index.php/archive/two-years-and-three-years-a-summary/ 14-09-07: Last Day!! We chose to spend our last day doing something a little different. We went on a zipline trek, which involved five cables suspended between trees, hundreds of feet above the Earth, and whizzing along them by a harness. Wonderful fun!! I went upside-down on for the last one, ... http://www.textick.com/index.php/archive/whistler-canada/ 11-09-07: G’day From WA (Washington, That Is!) The bus trip to Seattle was pretty nondescript. We woke early, spelt a little on the bus. The border crossing was way tamer than we thought it would be – the guards were friendly enough (although being fingerprinted was a novelty). Seattle itself is a ... http://www.textick.com/index.php/archive/seattle-usa/ 06-09-07/07-09-07: Bussing It We spent two days travelling from Banff to Vancouver, with a one night stopover in Kelowna. The first bus was so full, we didn’t get to sit together, but thankfully that didn’t happen again. Sadly, that is the only thing of interest that happened on the buses. Kelowna was ... http://www.textick.com/index.php/archive/vancouver-canada/ 02-09-07: En Route to Banff, 8:02am Despite the weirdness of day One, our taxi driver Sunday morning was great! He studied in Perth at Bentley TAFE! Weeny little world, ain’t it? For breakfast I made fresh waffles, but had to eat them in the taxi because our bus to Banff was to ... http://www.textick.com/index.php/archive/banff-canada/ 01-09-07: Calgary, Land of Gallon Hats, Scary Taxi Men & Emo Kids So. We survived a 9-hour flight with no in-flight entertainment to arrive in…Perth. This wasn’t immediately apparent, although we did feel somewhat suspicious as we flew into Calgary over a flat wasteland of brown industrialism. Where were the trees? ... http://www.textick.com/index.php/archive/calgary-canada/ This website has not left my immediate consciousness, but it has fallen onto the backburner while I work on my novel. I’ve not been keeping up with it because I’ve assumed that no one really checks it anyway… I still have my notes from Cuba to write up at some stage, ... http://www.textick.com/index.php/archive/like-pink-im-not-dead/ This heading is misleading. There are no other rhyming cities we’ve been to recently unfortunately. However, on the weekend of the 23/24 September, I went to York for a work training weekend. I bunked off Saturday night and met James in York city for the night, and then we spent ... http://www.textick.com/index.php/archive/york-cork-and-other-rhyming-cities-2/ The weekend just past was a marvellous long weekend, with perfect weather for relative hunting (hounds and rifles optional). I took James to meet my family in Newcastle. I think it’s a loose connection genetically, but it’s definitely a close connection emotionally, starring my Uncle Peter as the grandfather we ... http://www.textick.com/index.php/archive/visiting-toontown/ Outdoor cinema in Australia means: - picnic blanket - mozzie repellant - cheap wine that tastes like the cardboard it is bought in - cold chicken - something to shield the screen, so that the sun (still high in the sky at 8pm) doesn’t bleed out the colour in the screen - soft grass - ants nibbling at your bare ankles - a radio somewhere playing ... http://www.textick.com/index.php/archive/outdoor-cinema-london-style/