Entries from July 2008

July 29, 2008

Living the hobo dream. (part one)

So sometime last week, possibly at about 1am on a friday I was lying on a set of seats in a train station. I had been there for about two hours, and had one more hour to wait before the train to take me home arrived. The whole scenario was strange, there were probably about [...]

July 10, 2008

Yorkshire Bank

After five and a half weeks of being unemployed the day of doom finally arrived. A week delayed but still it arrived.

July 10, 2008

In Scouser Land

Land of the Scouser a.k.a Liverpool. European Capital of Culture 2008
Chris and I headed off for another little day trip. This time only 30miles away but 1hr on the bus.  Had a list of things to see and places to go from old work buddie Dickie who is from Liverpool. Scousers have a really different [...]

July 1, 2008

If I squint I can see America

Blackpool. Dungy. Manky. Tired. Eclectic.
Still was nice to get out of Manchester and start exploring.
Day started with what we thought was a normal tram ride into the city, only to find out that a tram had de-railed in the city. This meant us getting off 3 stops early and in search of a map to [...]

July 1, 2008

What I’ve been doing since I left Singapore

I’m trying to make it sound exciting on a micro scale, because obviously, we got on a plane in Singapore and 13.something hours later we were in the United Kingdom. I didn’t really know what to expect, although I knew that New Zealand, being a colony of this nation, would bear a few similarities. I [...]