I am a very rotund 101 as I type. Small items in my room are currently in orbit! Life gets better. By the way meant to ask you... If you happen to see one, and you have a bit of spare cash (unlikely), I would very much like a kanga nut-sack money pouch (They do exist) and will gladly reimburse you for your trouble. I'd rather you don't try to recover one yourself though ... unless you find a dead one.

Hi all. Well i went out that night - but didn't drink. what?!!! i hear you say? just the thought of it made me feel ill. tried to get over the nausea by sipping a glass of white - trying the hair of the dog approach. but no. stuck to the diet coke and occassional red bull to keep me awake for the dancing til three in the morning. was in the infamous charlies and looked closer at the guy i was dancing with and shouted to him 'you're an essex boy' he looked at me strangely and shouted back 'yeeeeeeeeeeeaaaa - so???' i said - 'from thorpe bay right' you could see the fear in his eyes as he nodded slowly. i carried on regardless fueled by the power of red bull. 'yeah - you're from the yacht club - i knew i knew you from somewhere' - fear from him turned to relief. turns out he also knew my mate Lydia who i was with at the time. so i fetched lydia who promptly started screaming at him that he was evil. this was a combination of alcohol and the fact that lydia had once been best friends with his younger sister, bridgit, whose hamster he had once tortured to death infront of Lydia. even in london you'll find it's a small world after all. anyways peeps - back to the grind for me. Boys - get some updates on here. tell me about your lives and share the photos to prove it. Jo xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

work drinks should be banned. they ply you with alcohol on a bloody thursday night and then expect you to come in. i am still a little drunk i think. despite drinking evian and trying to soak some of the alcohol up with bread. my hair isn't washed and i think something crawled in my mouth and died there... painfully. my shirt is crumpled and i've got the hippy hippy shakes. am no longer scared of dying because i now know what Purgatory is like. hell is at my desk trying not to hurl. Bleugh....................................
Lima sounds good. australia must be dull because you are not telling any good stories or sending any photos. bye for now. must stay awake and sober up in time for going out and getting drunk tonight. xx

Ahh Andy, you got me - no way to hide the paunch any longer - Lets just say nine hours hard labour on the farm is no match for one hour of pain at Poole Sports Centre. Def gonna have to take my rightful place back in team Nike when I return. Will try and get some photos on the site of some totty before you tie the knot but they have laws about that kind of thing here too. Damo, graduation at 26, trolly pushing, enrolling at Bournemouth Uni - sounds like your life is going off the rails without my supervision? next youll be telling me youve hit the 100kg mark again? think you should start aiming higher - at least leave Tesco and try for JS, Im sure youll get a job there. speaking of which, not come across any JS as of yet on my travels!

Lima is excellent, I really like it! I was expecting an absolute s***ehole, but it's not at all in the places I've been. Nearly got caught up in a protest today, though, that would have been a mistake I feel - the pigs went in with their riot gear after a while. Going to mountains tomorrow. Then to Nazca lines. Then off to see condors. Big golden ones. Gaaaaah. So what did Nick say? Can he help you out at all? Glad to have been of service, anyway, Boy. xxx

is lima as much of an armpit as everyone says it is?? hows the mist? how u getting to cusco?? mmm jealous. nick has been v helpful thankyou i've emailed him a few times already...

Glen! And Jo! I'm in Liiiiima, baby... Ah, I can smell that Inca gold... The dream is getting nearer. Joey, sounds like you are living it up, old skool. Just be sure you keep an eye on Boardwalk; make sure the clientele and the cocktails are still up to scratch. Glen, have you written to Nick yet? What did he say? Love to you bothxxxxx

Hey Pimp! Looks like much fun to be had. Don't worry 'bout the fig pickin, could be worse - could be pushin' trollies at tesco at age 23 like yours truly. Am busy bolloxing up my degree; so badly in fact that I will now be re-starting my degree from year one back at Bournemouth as of next September. Yay... three and a half years of studentdom left... boo... will graduate aged 26. How long you gone for? And where you gonna work when you get back? HHH has gone belly-up - no more safety net. Take care hope to hear from you soon; come on cheer up my sad pathetic life with a reply/some pics/stories.

Looks like you've lost that Circiuts edge Big Al.....that paunch is getting worse!!!!!!!! I'm still carrying Syd & Fat Boy around andt Team Nike still has a vacancy! Any chance of pics of some Aussie surf chicks??? Need to have a perv whilst I still can.....only 38 days to go! Le Stag is starting to take shape, don't know where we're going but we'll raise a shandy in your honour. Take care bud and spread that seed wide & far.

7quid..pff...you got screwed. 20pence a pint homebrew DIK stylee tbh ;)

continued........... (in my over excited state of remembering such cheap alcohol i must have pressed return)..........................................................
........... where was i - yeah - seven quid!!! for a round!!! a bottle of wine was less than a fiver. God bless students. am going to visit a lot more methinks. Plus i forgot all the cool(?)names that dirrty students christen themselves with. i met people with names like duffy, gregster, joner, bender.... as soon as they hit the city they turn into people with normal names. and the four a.m. student fun of leapfrogging over traffic bollards and carrying anything that you physically can home with you for drunken unrememberance the next morning. i forgot how much noise it takes for a house to make before the neighbours come round to complain twice and threaten you with calling the pigs - and i forgot how dirrty stowdents houses can be. Glen hon - your house at uni was filthy - but this was worse..... slime, mildrew and curling leftover food in every corner. well at half eight that has put me right off my cornflakes. fantastic weekend. so let me know any news and DAMMIT i want more photos. Love y'all xxxxxxxxxxxx Jo

Well hello glen, si and alex - hope you are all fine and dandy and that australia is finally recognizing your merits and you al have steady respectable jobs - Bah doubt it. Things in ole Blighty are windy and wet - craving sunshine and heat - need a good holiday. took a trip to loughborough this bank holiday to visit Bee Lucas' bro Ed at Uni there. drove up in little nosh to impress the peasant students with my wealth and power. worked a treat. OMG forgot how cheeeeep the beers are in the union. went to the bar - bought a round of drinks including voddy and red bull for seven quid. SEVEN QUID