Travel for Real! How I’m Gonna Go to Europe and Maybe Back – Part 1

November 22nd, 2009

I sold my boat. I had it for three years and with my older son moving to another island for Uni, she was just going to rot in front of our house.

I leave in New Zealand. Pretty cool down here, wouldn’t move elsewhere for good. Yet my other family, my first, are back there in Europe, most of them all the way up in Romania. I don’t see much of them, haven’t seen my only sis for ages and she’s got a baby now, my first nephew. There are a couple of parents I might miss and a bunch of ex-mates. So the boat chose to split-reincarnate herself in a few plane tickets.

NZ to Romania takes at best three long haul flights and two days, there are 12 time zones in between, it’s a lovely Climate Warming summer here and a bloody Cold War winter over there.

I looked for tickets on the net but it seemed my boat had not been big enough to fly my all the way and back plus to allow me a glass of vodka in Bucharest and a Kiwi beer on my return, three weeks later.

I shall tell you the story of my trip to the old side of the World and back. It starts with an Emirates booking.

emirpln

Mockocast – Episode 1 (Audio)

November 22nd, 2009

You should just be able to listen by placing this link in your browser:

Credits: a famous Kiwi radio host and an Alien who helps us.

Internet Fun – Joke of the Day

November 15th, 2009

I found this printed somewhere but I’m sure it comes from some email,  thus it qualifies as our joke of the day. I made no changes to it, as it was. Please read and exercise discretion.

Writing About The Sea


1) This is a picture of an octopus. It has eight testicles.. (Kelly age 6)

2) Oysters’ balls are called pearls. (James age 6)

3) If you are surrounded by sea you are an Island . If you don’t have
sea all round you, you are incontinent. (
Wayne age 7)

4) Sharks are ugly and mean, and have big teeth, just like Emily
Richardson . She’s not my friend no more. (Kylie age 6)

5) A dolphin breaths through an arsehole on the top of its head. (Billy age 8 )

6) My dad goes out in his boat, and comes back with crabs. (Emily Burniston age 5)

7) When ships had sails, they used to use the trade winds to cross the
ocean. Sometimes, when the wind didn’t blow, the sailors would whistle
to make the wind come. My brother said they would be better off eating
beans
(William age 7)

8 ) I like mermaids. They are beautiful, and I like their shiny tails.
How do mermaids get pregnant? (Helen age 6)

9) I’m not going to write about the sea. My baby brother is always
screaming and being sick, my Dad keeps shouting at my Mum, and my big
sister has just got pregnant, so I can’t think what to write. (Amy age 6)

10) Some fish are dangerous. Jellyfish can sting. Electric eels can
give you a shock. They have to live in caves under the sea where I
think they have to plug themselves into chargers. (Christopher age 7)

11) When you go swimming in the sea, it is very cold, and it makes my
willy small. (Kevin age 6)

12) Divers have to be safe when they go under the water. Two divers
can’t go down alone, so they have to go down on each other. (Becky age 8 )

13) On holiday my Mum went water skiing. She fell off when she was
going very fast. She says she won’t do it again because water shot up
her fanny. (Julie age 7)..

Internet Fun – Joke of the Day

October 29th, 2009

If you travel to Kaikoura, New Zealand, go to Top Ten Holiday Park (which is nice and clean, but unjustifiable expensive), pick cabin #7, relax in the double bed under the bunk and look up:

Mini Grafitti, Kaikoura

Non-Canadians watch out!