Melburnt
Downtown Melbourne. This place has a striking likeness to San Francisco, with hills, trams, colours, crusty people and a bay.
Adelaide was stunning, crisp, not for the faint hearted, well people who get faint around homosexuality.
Melbourne is great for a few reasons:
1. We spent our first night in a converted nunnery.
2. The first thing I saw on a TV screen (I was just passing by it - still a crusty hippy :) ) was Father Ted!
3. Amelia Kelly of The Elms, Galway City and rare sightings in Monaghan, has the most generous cousins of us all. We moved into "The flat in town" which was just across from where we stayed in the nunnery, weird..... Anyway "The flat in town" is acutally an extremely large house. Although "Not furnished" it does have a jacuzzi, hot water, the best shower I've seen in real life, central location and eight really cool people.
So rumour has it we are going to the cinema tonight. Wait that's a complete lie. Rumour has it we're going to the casino tonight. I won't bring any money, because I'll loose it all.
A Jacuzzi!
So Amelia Kelly and her extremely generous extended family, have offered us the "Home house" for Xmas, the Canadians are cooking Xmas dinner!
OK it's time for a general introduction to the convoy.
Bean - that's me. Loves a good stretch in the evenin's
Smeels (Amelia Kelly) - A childhood friend and neighbour, smells faintly of cabbage.
Tim Lennon - Amelias ball and chain. Good craic, great accent, and good with sticks, clubs and balls when they are in the air on front of him.
Katie Greenfield - Canadian. Always up for jumping of higher things than the boys can. Loves to show her bottom at the wrong times. Smokes winfield and is way to tanned for the amount of sun she's seen.
Steph Annand - Canadian. Tall but willing. Loves getting topless behind signs, has a cheesey grin. Farts seldom.
Iain Cameron - Scotish. Always fondling, usually himself though. The class clown,with dashing good looks. A future in Calvin Klien underwear photography awaits.
Brian MaCleod - Scotish. Letting his hair grow at the moment. Would like to win a frozen chicken in a raffle. Patriotic Tattoos, and scuttery shits plague him like the plague. Has an overly tanned foot and a pair of pervinators.
Neil Johnstone - The cute one, in a Goose from Top Gun sort of way. Founder of "The T-shirt dance" and "The shoulder dance" a must at any rave. Monty to his close friends, felt up by his closer friends. Needs to press the accelerator just a wee bit harder in general.
Now!
The Great Ocean road was.... great.
:) It rained for a bit, but the rainbows and rays piercing the scattering clouds soon quenched that (Look it's a Pun!)
Warrnambool for one night, and Torquay/Jan Juc for another. We got wiped out in the surf in Warrnambool. It was the best fun I've ever had in water.
So its about an hour-hour and a half back to Torquay/Geelong if we wanna go for a surf again. so I'd say we'll go back down for two days at a time.
Tim got a surf board! It's great. It's better than mine!
Pretty much everyone has a board of some sort now, we, the eight of us, love the water which is great.
On a more depressing note. Nearly all the news from home has been bad.
The passing of Jimmy was very sad, a man who I really was looking forward to getting to know better. It's a shame I couldn't make the funeral.
My eldest dog Chloe died too. One of the most intelligent and strange dogs I've ever had the pleasure of knowing.
Tommy Henshaw - whom I stole the joke(We'll be taking a break in 5minutes for an hour and a half) after the first song at our gigs off. Gas craic!
And various other little bits of sad news.
On a less depressing note. Life is great! I'm very lucky, and I appreciate having such great family and friends. Barf!
Anyway I must have sunstroke.
Well hope everything is going well for everyone back home.
Pints next year when I'm back.
OK everyone is waiting outside the door here. Better go.
Thanks for all the emails and comments on the site, they make getting on these silly machines worthwhile.
Take care of yourselves.
And really, don't drink from unlabled bottles, and don't dangle valuables over any edges.
Bean
Adelaide was stunning, crisp, not for the faint hearted, well people who get faint around homosexuality.
Melbourne is great for a few reasons:
1. We spent our first night in a converted nunnery.
2. The first thing I saw on a TV screen (I was just passing by it - still a crusty hippy :) ) was Father Ted!
3. Amelia Kelly of The Elms, Galway City and rare sightings in Monaghan, has the most generous cousins of us all. We moved into "The flat in town" which was just across from where we stayed in the nunnery, weird..... Anyway "The flat in town" is acutally an extremely large house. Although "Not furnished" it does have a jacuzzi, hot water, the best shower I've seen in real life, central location and eight really cool people.
So rumour has it we are going to the cinema tonight. Wait that's a complete lie. Rumour has it we're going to the casino tonight. I won't bring any money, because I'll loose it all.
A Jacuzzi!
So Amelia Kelly and her extremely generous extended family, have offered us the "Home house" for Xmas, the Canadians are cooking Xmas dinner!
OK it's time for a general introduction to the convoy.
Bean - that's me. Loves a good stretch in the evenin's
Smeels (Amelia Kelly) - A childhood friend and neighbour, smells faintly of cabbage.
Tim Lennon - Amelias ball and chain. Good craic, great accent, and good with sticks, clubs and balls when they are in the air on front of him.
Katie Greenfield - Canadian. Always up for jumping of higher things than the boys can. Loves to show her bottom at the wrong times. Smokes winfield and is way to tanned for the amount of sun she's seen.
Steph Annand - Canadian. Tall but willing. Loves getting topless behind signs, has a cheesey grin. Farts seldom.
Iain Cameron - Scotish. Always fondling, usually himself though. The class clown,with dashing good looks. A future in Calvin Klien underwear photography awaits.
Brian MaCleod - Scotish. Letting his hair grow at the moment. Would like to win a frozen chicken in a raffle. Patriotic Tattoos, and scuttery shits plague him like the plague. Has an overly tanned foot and a pair of pervinators.
Neil Johnstone - The cute one, in a Goose from Top Gun sort of way. Founder of "The T-shirt dance" and "The shoulder dance" a must at any rave. Monty to his close friends, felt up by his closer friends. Needs to press the accelerator just a wee bit harder in general.
Now!
The Great Ocean road was.... great.
:) It rained for a bit, but the rainbows and rays piercing the scattering clouds soon quenched that (Look it's a Pun!)
Warrnambool for one night, and Torquay/Jan Juc for another. We got wiped out in the surf in Warrnambool. It was the best fun I've ever had in water.
So its about an hour-hour and a half back to Torquay/Geelong if we wanna go for a surf again. so I'd say we'll go back down for two days at a time.
Tim got a surf board! It's great. It's better than mine!
Pretty much everyone has a board of some sort now, we, the eight of us, love the water which is great.
On a more depressing note. Nearly all the news from home has been bad.
The passing of Jimmy was very sad, a man who I really was looking forward to getting to know better. It's a shame I couldn't make the funeral.
My eldest dog Chloe died too. One of the most intelligent and strange dogs I've ever had the pleasure of knowing.
Tommy Henshaw - whom I stole the joke(We'll be taking a break in 5minutes for an hour and a half) after the first song at our gigs off. Gas craic!
And various other little bits of sad news.
On a less depressing note. Life is great! I'm very lucky, and I appreciate having such great family and friends. Barf!
Anyway I must have sunstroke.
Well hope everything is going well for everyone back home.
Pints next year when I'm back.
OK everyone is waiting outside the door here. Better go.
Thanks for all the emails and comments on the site, they make getting on these silly machines worthwhile.
Take care of yourselves.
And really, don't drink from unlabled bottles, and don't dangle valuables over any edges.
Bean
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