…that one of the best things about going away is coming back home – the time and experience in foreign lands making you appreciate the reasons you live in the place you do. A surfer will often say the same about a surftrip – travelling the world searching for new and exciting breaks, catching a [...]
Monthly Archives: May 2008
Go ahead…
May 24, 2008 – 10:38 am
…snuff my Dad. The somewhat shaky paternal branch of my family tree has requested that he be ‘snuffed’ on fuelmyblog. This is the first sensible action he has taken in the blogosphere this year – with any luck he may be announcing his retirement later… To facillitate easy snuffing of the old git I have [...]
Look what I made Ma…
May 23, 2008 – 6:40 pm
…I am a rubbish son. My mother often asks me to take photos of work so that she can check up on me see what I’ve been doing (in a loving, maternal type way). I have not performed this simple task for quite some time so here are a few pics of ‘Quinta do Cabril’. [...]
Paddling in the right direction…
May 18, 2008 – 2:28 pm
…a surf trip to a country struggling through the aftermath of tsunamic devestation whilst in the grip of civil war certainly leaves you with some intense and varied emotional responses – the most potent being at the epicenter of destruction on the east coast at Arugam Bay. At times the despair and futility of life [...]
A good blog post…
May 10, 2008 – 2:08 pm
…is it a rambling footpath through the inner workings of somebody’s warped and troubled mind (possibly mine)? …or is it short incisive comment on the state of the tiny corner of the universe that we live in – appalling in content but leaving us with hope and a small feeling of pride in humanity? …maybe [...]
A little blue…
May 7, 2008 – 5:29 pm
… sometimes when you’ve been away for a while things just don’t seem to fit for a few days. You get that feeling that some tiny core element within you has been changed forever and your home environment is tragically unaware of it. You wander through the day with an air of displacement and surreal [...]
If it doesn’t fit…
May 5, 2008 – 10:06 am
…don’t force it. Japanese watermelon manufacturers have developed a way of fitting a round peg into a square hole – making refrigerator use just a little more efficient. Personally I feel if an orifice is the wrong shape then no amount of genetically enhanced lubrification will ease a peg’s passage… I didn’t surf today.
A few days ago…
May 2, 2008 – 9:15 am
…I was here. My life was all about surfing in board shorts and factor 50 sun block – Tango in bikinis (grrr) and Huwj in a hammock – banana pancakes and seer fish curry – crazy tuk-tuk rides and endless military checkpoints… Crows, chipmunks, elephants and peacocks. Banana trees, banyans, palms and papayas. Corrugated iron, [...]