Monthly Archives: May 2008

Progress ….

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The last few days have been mental!

After the lorry took all our worldly goods away:

the house looked pretty empty. But you wouldn’t believe how long it takes to clean an
empty house! We have been sleeping at my folks and driving up and down from greenock to the house.

Ians mum and sister and her husband and anns russian lodger gave us a huge help with cleaning and touching up all the painting.

Yesterday was finishing the garden. It looks great now, but it was hard work..

Many skips runs were involved and hefting huge bags of gravel. We are officially knackered.

Last night was a family meal at my sisters which was good fun 🙂 much food, much drink.

Today is last minute running around with customs declarations and getting a replacement battery charger for the camera as ours is on a boat to perth now. Along with so many things we could be doing with.

I don’t expect to get much sleep tonight with nerves!

‘My daughter deserved to die for falling in love’ | World news | The Observer

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‘My daughter deserved to die for falling in love’ | World news | The Observer

This is utterly sickening. He stamped on her, suffocated her and stabbed her. Her brothers joined in. Her uncles spat on her corpse. Because she had been seen in public speaking to a British soldier. His only regret is that he didnt kill her at birth.

What a sickening piece of shit.

The police congratulated him, and, apparently “as usual” he will be given money by a local politician to go to Jordan for a few weeks until the story is forgotten.

And he will kill his sons if either of them are “contaminated with any gay relationship”.

This is all apparently common practice in Basra and the rest of Iraq now.

Tell me why we went into Afghanistan if it wasnt to stop the Taliban doing this sort of thing. So, why did we set this up in Iraq.


Unemployed again!! :D

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Well, that’s us now, officially, unemployed slackers again – we both finished this afternoon, and are now running about mad getting stuff ready for the off.

The house is packed on Monday/Tuesday, we should be decorating the finishing touches on Wednesday, letting agent is out on Thursday, Friday for “contingency”, then we fly out on Saturday. phew.

The Plan (TM)

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So cunning you could put a tail on it and call it a fox.

The house gets packed into a shipping container on Monday 12th and Tuesday 13th May.

We stay at my folks in Greenock till we leave – at 10:50am Saturday 17th.

We arrive in Heathrow (not Terminal 5 thankfully!) around 12:15.

We go to the Sheraton Hotel and sample its free hor d’oeuvres, and stay overnight in a king size upgraded room.

The next day, at 11:55 we fly out of Heathrow on an A380 to Singapore!

We arrive in Singapore 07:45 local time, when we head off to the Ritz Carlton and then out and about (briefly) in Singapore itself.

Once we have had an overnight in the Ritz, its Tuesday morning. At 9:35 we depart Singapore and fly out on our last leg to Perth, arriving 14:35 local time, where we will have a hire car waiting for us.

We traipse to our temporary accommodation and thats us!

Nearly two years later, and right on schedule!

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We started KyCon ’08 back in 2006 (as evidenced by the dates on Jen’s posts). That’s when we started thinking about roaming the world.

Wintermute Consultancy had just went under, we had sorted out work, the house was safe again, and we decided that we had just had enough of being cold, wet and miserable… it was time to see the world.

Last year, part one of the plan came to fruition, and we visited the pyramids – one of the best experiences I have had so far, and one of “the big 50 things to do before you die”.

Now, here we are – ready to leave Scotland for Sunny Australia. The house is being packed up as we speak, and we fly to Perth in a little over two weeks.

It was my really sincere hope that ’08 would be the year we actually did it – I honestly didn’t think we would make it.