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“Shut up when you’re talking to me” – Black Cat White Cat
How’s it going chummmmmmmm-ps.
A lot has happened since I last posted. Rose seems to be fighting back somehow with a post in the “drafts” section that seems to be a mightly scathing attack on your humble narrator and friend but I’m sure we all know who’s in the right, and who’s prone to exagerate a story for the purposes of humour. I trust you’ll stay loyal to your King, Samuel Owen Murray (also goes under the name Max Factor… “I make women look good”. But that’s another story…)
Moving -> along.
Keely
Where the fucking hell are you brother? I’m calling your phone, I’m calling your Mum’s phone, both are going to message bank. No answer at the 9430 number either. Have you left? I’m sure you’re on the road, trying to sneak up to me from 3500klms away. I can smell you motherfudgepacker… Call me. SMS me or email me. Something…. Anything. I’m turning Michael Frantic over here. I’m just sayin’. Either you’re dead or on the motorcycle. Either way, I’m jealous. I’m just sayin’. Know what I mean? Am I wrong?… Dude… Am I wrong? No.. I’m not wrong. Just sayin’ is all. Just sayin’.
Head, shoulders knees and walls, knees and doors, knees and walls.
Looks like we got a place to hang my new Barmah ‘Squashy’ (aka, home) in Roebuck Estate. Rose’s work told her there’s staff quarters and they’re finishing one off this week and we can move into it wednesday/thursday.
It’s a little cabin behind a pretty nice pad about 2klms from town. It’s tiny avec awesomely outdated drapery. It has a cook-top, fridge, bed, walls, a door without zippers and a sitting area with a TV. All in the same room. Ooh, and a bunk bed as well as a double bed. So anyone wanting to come up and stay in Broome can sleep in a bunk bed. I keep telling Rose I’m on top but she just slaps me and tells me I’m being innapropriate.
Best news? This semi-self-contained (if there is such a thing) is $80 per week… In broome! HOOAH!
Christopher Alexander Jimmy Francis Bauer
Chris came up to stay with us for a week and discovered he had legs. We did some kayaking and walking and eating and sitting and swimming and hammocking and kissing. He tells me what happens in Broome, stays in Broome but I fear someone may post it on the internet so we’ll see.
Tesol
The main reason we’re out of town is, of course, teaching english o.s.
We’ve locked in Vietnam (as much as we can lock something in) and done the maths on the average wage of a qualified, inexperienced TESL teacher there and we can live like pigs in guano and save cash at the same time.
We’re coming back to Perth after the season to complete the practical teaching units then we’ll head off straight away.
Tony Montana
To anyone who doesn’t know, one of my old flatmates “Tony Montana” (who just happened to be a dog) was killed a couple of weeks ago from complications a few days after being hit by a car. Bit of a heart-breaker to be honest.
I don’t have much else to say except I have new goggles and my swimming is getting better each day and it’s boss-fun thanks to my spunky red-head swimming coach. My harmonica playing is progressing steadily and I thoroughly enjoy playing harmonica on the cycle home from work at night. If you hear a rendition of “You are my sunshine” piercing the warm night air on Gantheume road, “you better watch out, cos here comes the crazy gringo!” – Molatov
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Hiya Sam
Thanks for sending me the link to your blog, I have fair enjoyed reading about your adventures. It’s made me want to visit Broome, but not the crocs or the caterpillars.
Keep up the good work, post plenty more photo’s.
Awe the best to you and Rose.
Have a magic day bonnie lad.
Love, as always Linda x
A paragraph? I’m there for a week and a half and all I get is one lousy, stinking paragraph. Nay, not even a paragraph. That last sentence wasn’t about my presence at all. And I don’t think you can call two sentences a paragraph. In fact, they were hardly worth calling sentences. Phrases, perhaps. Not really recognisable phrases though. More a sequence of words. But does a sequence of words really have any significance in and of itself? I’d say it is a generous concession to refer to them as language constructs at all. And language constructs may or may not be entire words on their own. So, not even a word (arguably) about my visit! Geez. Jimmy’s outraged. And believe me, you won’t like Jimmy when he’s angry. He gets all punchy-Irish.
FOR THE RECORD there was kayaking and walking and eating and sitting and swimming and hammocking and kissing and –// RIDING //– too. Also a bit of gandering, gallavanting, even some gusseting (that Gecko shirt, lol). I’m going to abort the impending avalanche of alliteration and/or assonance (ad nauseum) … now.
I’ve had a couple of people comment that they expected to see a post from me here, to which I have responded by gesticulating wildly and running. What I didn’t necessarily tell them at the time is that I wouldn’t have gotten around to composing an actual bonefide post anyway as my watch was set to Broome Mean Time (the mean average of almost-on-time and way-late-for-whatever over a sample period of one “bucket” of “stupid hot” days as rated by the Bureau of Meteorology. Yes, I know that has nothing to do with any quantifiable chronology. That’s my point, that’s Broome).
Yep, I got that popup too. Someone on The Internets sayed that my piece E was infested with spy wear. I think you should upgrade.
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~ “Itchy” V
Oh my. I need to learn paragraph-breaks. I’ll fix it later when i cbf hax0rz-ing ur gibson.
I’m glad you’re having fun but slightly more regular updates wouldn’t be that hard, would it? You’re barely taking *any* for the blog.
Entertain me!
Hey, so glad to hear that you found a place to stay that has walls and doors, and hopefully no killer caterpillars :) Keep on having fun in the sun, miss ya heaps!!
@k – don’t blame you for not reading my comment, but somewhere in there i ranted about how hard it is to do anything on time up there. i was also dismayed at how few life-threating scenarios they got into (aka amusement) in the week-and-whatever, but that’s for another post.
@nerissa – i’m sure rose would be glad to find you an appropriate flight up ;) fun fun …