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back to cornwall

Published 28th of Jun, 2000. Stored under diary

Today I woke up and got dressed, left the house in a casual strol and went to paddington station, there I took a train at 13.33 to Cornwall. Quite a whim I might say, but alas this was all pre-planned. I went to see my sister in towerdreath with Jun. The train journey down there was a bit long but as the grey drab concrete turned into green pastures a far, my heart warmed and my frown was turned upsidedown!

Got to Cornwall in the early evening and walked into towerdeath from Par station, the centre of the universe… no wait a minute, thats Bodmin, my mistake.

My sister bought a new car today [she wrote her mini off in a unmatched fight between big van and small car] its a yellow Ford fiesta, she paid œ120 for it, the love wagon came with a hidden socket set too! Gary offered to get some rubbish from the bottom of his van and place it about the fiesta, just to make one feel in place

Went to polkerris beach in the evening, got a good old Cornish pint and sat out in the dwindling sunlight. I warned Jun about the Cornish accent, little did she belive me until the barman said wot will ewe be havin then me lover? and someone shouted ere! Jon yer taxis ere. She belives me now.

Went to a small local later that night and met my old photography teacher named Paul. He taught me how to operate all the machines in the _dark_ room. He also taught most of the year how to do photography when my other teachers were being stroppy!

Bed down, early morning.

back to england

Published 25th of Jun, 2000. Stored under diary

Right then, back to England. Back to work.
Woke up at 5am, even with the shutters closed, all French houses have these shutters… its quite nice.
Got a coach from the centre of town, it took 3 hours to get into Paris… so I also got to catch up on some sleep!
Poodles, cigarette smokers, motorbikes, scooters, coffee and soldiers… oh and double Decker trains on the Metro, a metro where yes everyone smokes. France I guessed, is a nice place. Nightmare getting on the Eurostar though, the rebooking queue took us well past our boarding time and French people were shouting and screaming all over to poor unsuspecting Americans holding up the queues a lot long than they should have. Getting our tickets signed and rebooked took about 5 seconds, even though we had to wait for about an hour.
By a miracle of fate the train was delayed and we were back on safely and on our way into London once again
I enjoyed my stay greatly and felt supercharged for life once again, London really can suck it out of you and make you feel down, getting out is not so much a good thing more of a necessity!

france day 2

Published 24th of Jun, 2000. Stored under diary

Woke up severally early in the morning, at about 1pm. The shutters had been drawn around the house the previous evening and I had no way of knowing what time it was, so my bodyclock said afternoon and my eyes said no! Night.
I had a hearty lunch outside in the garden with Shige, Michelle and Jun. We spoke that afternoon [and the previous evening] in a French, English and Japanese hybrid, with myself almost having to relearn the French language to keep up the pace.
Later that day I travelled to a castle that was being reconstructed in traditional methods, it was almost all open to the public, I was even able to walk in the aging loft amongst the rafters and cobwebs.
When drinking a nice pint in the afternoon post castled out I spotted a guy sitting with his dog… looked precisely like a guy I once knew of called Nigel. Maybe it was him, he lives out here some where, I’ll never know though because English reserve got the better of me and I didnt ask him.
Had a nice meal, the French way. Shige and his partner Michelle live in Paris for the majority of the time, this country house in St fargeau, bourgogne is their retreat. They get little chance to cook for more than two so at this time we were all able to enjoy the plus side of cooking food in large quantities.
Picked some cherries, helped mow a lawn, made a bonfire.

birthday in france day 1

Published 23rd of Jun, 2000. Stored under diary

Today Jun and myself set off for France on the Eurostar train bound from Waterloo. I had to wake up a lot earlier than I was prepared to… after all it was my Birthday! We arrived at gare du nord or something, hell I’m English, we are supposed to be lazy in our view towards language of other cultures so if thats the wrong spelling so be it. It took a few aeons to get into France. I read the Edge and Wired from cover to cover. We then had to wait for another train to take us in the deep dark countryside where the inhabitants only speak French… English and German, how shamed we British are. I was off to meet a Japanese architect called Shige [pron: she'geh] and his partner Michelle. The train we took was very French, everyone was smoking and in the station were soldiers brandishing machine guns.
We arrived late in the evening, talked to our hosts till the late hours and went to bed.

toke on this

Published 22nd of Jun, 2000. Stored under diary

Oh dear, my head is not working – absinthe and champers, too much of both at Oven Digital’s party. Spoke to toke from k10k, he was rather bemused to my identity and suffering from alcohol + antibiotics mix for his ears, which coincidentally was something his passing pal was suffering from too. The Kleber team partied in full effect, leaving an uber wake that only we know how to make.
Just went back to anti-porns site, seems hes had enough of preaching his twisted views to everyone… he got death threats abuse and someone even offered to remove his website [lovely guys] for him.
Thats what happens if you are bitter, twisted and have made your mind up about the world whilst still being only 18 years old. It’s my birthday tomorrow.

head in the oven

Published 21st of Jun, 2000. Stored under diary

After deciding that I won’t be going to Cornwall, a visit to Oven Digital’s 1st birthday party will be on the cards.
Visited styleproject earlier, on their front page was a link to a guy calling himself anti-porn. A fascist with very extreme views about all things sex, he made no sense.
Some of his views are as such:
1. no sex before marriage
2. sex for procreation only
3. woman must be in missionary position
4. no orgasm for the woman
He also wanted to fine people caught masturbating $100. Anyone who is caught watching pron is liable to a fine of $10,000 and homosexual guys n’ girls get put on death row with no reprisal!

victoria

Published 16th of Jun, 2000. Stored under diary

Football, bloody footy. Went to hearn hill near brixton with jun and Steven. We sat on some grass in the sunshine eating strawberries and drinking french beer. parted with Steven’s company after England won against Germany for the first time since 1876, or something.

Found out later that Steven woke up about 2 miles away in Victoria bus station… at 11am in the waiting area, with his jumper over his head.

flying

Published 9th of Jun, 2000. Stored under diary

Thought I’d head off for Canterbury today, go and see kaori, one of my short Internet friends from cute japan.
We went out and decided to drink in the local called thomas, it’s owned by Mc.JD Weatherspooalds. Big beer and fries please, hold the Mayo.
Met some Japanese and hongkong people by accident after getting bored with kaori’s university mates. We had great fun and they were very surprised to findout halfway through the evening that I could speak Japanese. Got very merry, the hongkong guys were great fun… chummy loud honest guys, spent ages doing strange things that only people under the influence do. [like levitating in the pub and having piggyback fights]

boob

Published 7th of Jun, 2000. Stored under diary

Boobnight, the new media trendy whore hangout. I decided to go with steven and take some media based preverbal piss. Got there late, it was packed, had a bit to drink. Ended up in Soho 5 hours later wondering who and what I was, stumbled in my flip flops to a bus stop and watched the night sky change into a light blue while travelling on one of London’s red finest.

blighty

Published 10th of Jan, 2000. Stored under diary

ok back to work, Im back in England once again.

Its very strange coming back, I forgot this life and it took me a few days just to get my head beck into shape. England is very cold, Im not really enjoying London right now but hey: roll on summer!
I have to move house this week, its a hasstle but need to do it.

the year in question

Published 1st of Jan, 2000. Stored under diary

Well bugger me if it aint a new millenium we are in!
But I got to see it twice!

ok ok, Ill explain: Japan is a clean 9 hours ahead of england [but tokyo might as well be 25 years ahead] So I went to a shrine for the cerimonial ringing of a bell and then headed off to get a drink with my good pal Miyoko. When I woke up the next morning what should I see when I switched my set on? Big ben making its last gong and a whole military defence budgets worth of fire works! amazing!

updates from japan!

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Im updating from a nice cybercafe in Shinyukyu now, its about 5 mins walk from my hotel and like most shops in japan, it sports a generic name – “cyber cafe” – its a bit like the one in London Victoria, easyeverything, but the drinks are free and it costs 1.50 an hour. Its a bit better than “asprin” in kyoto but lacks atmosphere, which is ok by me to tell the truth… you get alocated a cell, depending on what charge youve gone for [reading, playstation or internet] and get to type away in peace, paying afterwerd. [its the case in japan that you pay after, not before. even train barriers are open - if you walk through without a ticket, they close.]

japan

Published 28th of Dec, 1999. Stored under diary

Well here I am.
I`m enjoying japan… but this bloody keyboard is in japanese so I can`t really be bothered to update my diary while on holiday, a: its too expensive and b: its hard to type this simple news entry due to the funny character sets etc, please write to me via the forum cos I`ll be checking that often.
Well, bye for now, sorry its such a sort entry, but you might find a little entry on the diary page… hint

kyoto

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I`m in kyoto and things are fine, I`ve found a cyber cafe called http://www.aspirin.co.jp [link colour looks funny, sorry copy an paste ] its nice but a little undermanned with only 10 pcs, unlike the understated presense of easyeverything in london.
Japan is nice, what can I say? I`ve taken 9 films and half filled my jotter… which will be combined to make a nice set of pages in my japan section on this website, updating when I get back, hopefully on my machine at home.

Due to the high prices of internet use this diary is not being updated untill I reach Tokyo in 3 days time. Japanese people are very nice and I have many heart warming stories to tell.
Hi to George, Lesely, Isgard, Mandy, Ellen, Gelnn, Caroline, Chris, Dorian, Lloyd, Steve and everyone else!

I`m sure I`ll be back for more trping in a few days, till then, bye from a lost – confused – and happy like a child – english man in newtopia.

moving websites

Published 1st of Oct, 1999. Stored under diary

Moving websites is such a hassle, you have to make a new os and format from scratch and design a way to display content without too much bother, plus if I am designing an ‘upgrade’ then the site has to work a bit better than the last one over the next few months you will see for your self. This is the 4th overhaul I have made on dadako.com since 1996.