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SAJ Stuff: 22/02/2015
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A look at life, the universe and everything. Sunday, February 22, 2015. Ten Years On: Home Again, But Not For Long. SHE didn't keep in touch. Did enjoy writing and voicing the ads though. We eventually came to an agreement with the wage; more importantly for me was that I could fly over to London if I got an interview to become a guide. It would be a flying visit that would cost at least a couple of thousand dollars, but in my mind the payout would be worth the risk. AND so I spent the Australian summer ...
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SAJ Stuff: 02/12/2012
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A look at life, the universe and everything. Thursday, December 06, 2012. 30 years ago, I was living in my first house, was recovering after plastic surgery on my right hand and left foot, and still had two months before I stopped being an only child. 25 years ago I was in my fourth house, second year of school and was the oldest of three boys. 20 years ago was house nine, my final year of primary school - and the last time I was at the same school at the same time as any of my three brothers. Today I've...
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SAJ Stuff: 08/02/2015
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A look at life, the universe and everything. Sunday, February 08, 2015. Ten Years On: Bonjour, et bienvenue à l'Europe. IT WAS one of the greatest thrills of my life - well, one of the greatest you can have on a tour bus. Through the windows of his hotted-up kombi-van. At any rate we made it into the rest stop for blessed bladder relief and Paris itself with no problems, deciding to celebrate by going out for a drink. There was Jason, Cat and myself; we had a random Canadian that was dossing in our r...
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SAJ Stuff: 15/02/2015
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A look at life, the universe and everything. Sunday, February 15, 2015. Ten Years On: The British Isles. FOR two months travelling around Europe the Real World was like your credit card bill: you knew it was there and that you would eventually have to deal with it, but it was nice to get away from it for a while. Leanne and Hamish at Chepstow Castle, Wales. Luckily they still had a spare bed. I kept dancing and thought nothing of it. I would like to point out for the record that the only effort that has ...
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SAJ Stuff: 15/03/2015
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A look at life, the universe and everything. Sunday, March 15, 2015. Ten Years On: The Training Trip. SCENE: the Park Crescent Conference Centre, London. A would-be tour guide, eager to avoid the palaver of his first interview. Matty J was actually the second person I already knew on that training trip. Back in 2005 when I travelled around I came across Laura a few times - she was the person travelling back from Pamplona with Tash in the Greatest Love Story Never Told. Naturally I kept an eye out for thi...
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SAJ Stuff: 22/07/2012
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A look at life, the universe and everything. Monday, July 23, 2012. Of Religion, Atheism and Fanatics. WATCHED The Blind Side. On the idiot box tonight. A nice enough movie, with Sandra Bullock managing to portray a feisty yet caring mother to perfection. Had my late grandmother been rich, American and from the South rather than relatively poor, Australian and from the Deep North I could see her being pretty similar to Bullock's portrayal of Leigh Anne Tuohy. Do you know what? To use a personal example, ...
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SAJ Stuff: Ten Years On: The First Day
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A look at life, the universe and everything. Sunday, May 10, 2015. Ten Years On: The First Day. The previous two days had been a blur. There was talk after the training trip. About partying for 48 hours; I'm not sure any of us last much past 11pm. I have to go to head office to collect all my equipment and spend the rest of the time trying desperately not to freak myself out at what's coming up. Will I make sure everyone gets on and off the Dover-Calais ferry ok? Shit, what if no-one likes me? First of a...
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SAJ Stuff: 01/03/2015
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A look at life, the universe and everything. Sunday, March 01, 2015. Ten Years On: The Interview. SO just to recap: I've travelled to the other side of the world for a job interview. I've lost a contact lens, put on a weak pair of glasses (that would give 99.99% of the population a massive headache), arrived about 30 seconds before the interview was supposed to start, then realised that my planned speech on King Edward VIII was going to suck compared to everyone else's. I don't know - but I "knew" that i...
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SAJ Stuff: 21/04/2013
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A look at life, the universe and everything. Tuesday, April 23, 2013. IT WAS one of those beautiful autumn days that Brisbane seems to abound in. Temperature in the mid-twenties; the sky a brilliant shade of blue with the very occasional patch of cloud to break it up; birds squawking at each other as they flew from eucalyptus to eucalyptus. A few days later we did it all again, although this time not at barracks as a second family member flew out. This would be his second time to Afghanistan, the sec...
