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HELP!!!!
I had a moment of weakness this week. Trust me, it doesn’t happen very often (which is why I can fix tyres with nothing but grass, petrol and a match; and how I know my Read more…
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Happiness [and why you should laugh at those more miserabler]
I always smile a little bit more when I see miserable people – they always remind me how ridiculous it is to not be happy. I took a walk to the shops the other day Read more…
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It’s too Late When you’re Dead
For 12 years we sat in captivity discussing life on the other side. We talked about knights on noble steeds, of frolicking in fields of flowers and envisioned ourselves saving the world. We all plotted Read more…
Sail
The End of the Chapter
It’s amazing how life rolls on… One random Chapter after the next…. CHAPTER 1- Growing Up Back in 1984 1984 -1980somrtthing Also in the 80s CHAPTER 2 – Growing a brain This is not actually Read more…
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Life. (Because you’re not dead yet)
Once upon a new years eve… in a car bar… because you don’t actually have to go out to have fun… Bungee jumping, licking a president, reproducing, writing a novel, taxidermising a pet, starting an Read more…
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Rotted Milk
There are two types of choices: good ones; and bad ones. Life’s a whole lot better when you make the good ones… I should have realized this last week already. But I didn’t No, instead I didn’t smell Read more…
Cycle
Take any Old Year – Turn it Stupendously Epic
I’m not sure how I’ve survived 2012: I’ve fallen 869 times, crashed 3 motorbikes, blown 17 bicycle tyres, licked any and everything, hitched 2687 km, cycled 2953 km, motorbiked 3214 km, sailed some 13 060.8 Read more…
Sail
Out of the Abyss : Still a Blip in a Vortex of Blue
[continued from http://barefootedgypsy.blogspot.com/2012/11/into-abyss-but-blip-in-ocean.html] Week 3 and still we hadn’t caught up to the drowning sun. The heavens still had balls of fire to fling about. The ocean still held suicidal fish to die upon our Read more…
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Into the Abyss : But a Blip in the Ocean
“When I grow up, I wanna be a pirate.” – Former me, age 5ish… And I really did. I wanted to swing by ropes from boat to boat waving plastic swords (all swords are plastic Read more…
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The Life of a Dead Kitten
On our second day as illegal Indonesian immigrants (Sunday), we found a kitten.A kitten so small it’s eyes hadn’t opened yet- meuwing helplessly under a tree – squirming at the pain caused by the puncture Read more…