31st December
5.02am
Scotland Island, NSW
Morning comes quickly. I awoke at 4.48am in the faint light of dawn. Kookaburras were laughing in the trees all around. There are no streetlights here and it is almost of the grid. Almost, not quite. There is a low growling in the distance, some animal of the bush, wild and untamed makes it's way across the hill behind...
Read More
I hope everyone had a good Christmas. Mine was pretty awesome. I survived cooking the full meal for 15 people, although I did hit a stress bomb at one point thinking the meal wasn't going to work.
I hope everyone's 2013 is what you wanted it to be, as we go into the last few days of it!
Well that's it. 6.30pm Christmas Eve, relaxing the moustache so it doesn't get in my beer and just spent a bloody fortune on Guinness. Heading home now :)
Love to you and yours. I hope santa hS something nice in has sack for you.... Hoho
Christmas eve temperature drop in Sydney? Calls for tweed!
OK. So I'm not Rambo, I don't ooze testosterone and in all honesty I wouldn't want to. Today was weird. Me and the little fella wore kilts as we were descended on by my lady's extended family. Of course Australian pleasantries were traded off about how I was wearing a skirt blah blah, but the funniest moment was when I came upstairs in the house
Read More
family gathering today. The wrong climate for something this warm... Fukit! ;)
It's been a blazing hot few days. Watching Christmas movies and listening to 'Fairytale of New York' among others. Sure, this isn't my First Australian Christmas, but the last time I came from -3 and a UK shutdown into 34 degrees here. Being here since June means I haven't had any cold on the run up.
It's fantastic but surreal being in the tropics this...
Read More
Family do in the country today. Was a small gathering, Suggested attire was smart. I hope we fitted the bill! Saw a cousin who'd flown in from NY. All good fun.
So, Im booked into this place for 18th Jan http://hunterandfoxtattoo.com/section/315116_W_T_Norbert.html
Had a consultation today and im super hyped. Looks like that will be my second sleeve completed with only back shading to worry about on either!-:) fuck yeah!
Weirdly enough, they hada ships wheel on the wall of the shop from Greenock, 3 miles from my home in Scotland, slightly fucked up!
Decided im going...
Read More
