Well now I know I am on holiday.......I have started to look in estate agents' windows as if to consider living here. "Cute cottage over one acre. Two bedrooms. No close neighbours yet with direct access to the main road. House features long verandahs, large carport and a double steel shed (??)" Cost less than 100,000 UK pounds. And yesterday I nearly bought an overprinted singlet! I think the sun must be getting to me. I did play golf in fai...

Well I finally made it to the reef, along with a few hundred others.......on the biggest and best organised boat trip I have ever taken. That said, I have now arrived at the difference between the 'traveller' and the tourist. The traveller goes there (wherever that may be) and the tourist gets taken there ( and sometimes, just taken full stop). So at the moment I am most definately a tourist as, in the past two days, I have been taken to the oldest rain for...

Thought you might like the image of cans of sweat 'cause that about sums up the heat here on Xmas Day. 33 degrees out of the shade, and there is very little shade as you might imagine. Anyway, I just logged on to load a bunch of new photos from the many CDs I am now carrying in the bag and to thank anyone and everyone who has left messages on the board. It means a great deal to me to know that there are folks out there in the ether thinking of me. O...