A Collection of My Facebook Statuses

I just wanted to preserve this list for posterity…
Will is away with the fairies. 9:07am
October 23
Will is Catapultam habeo. Nisi pecuniam omnem mihi dabis, ad caput tuum saxum immane mittam. 6:25pm
Will is cookiescookiescookiescookies. 6:08pm
October 22
Will is waltzing over a shiny kitchen floor. 7:32pm
Will is possibly supposed to be in a lecture right now. 10:40am
October 18
Will [...]

Enjoy stupid. This is probably my last post from peru unless i get over my hangover tomorrow

lomo saltado
 stone doorway
tallarin saltado
wong supermarket in peru
how to make a life size palm tree

No News

Late for work due to a 90min haircut- dont ask. it looks great, however, but still, im late.

2-Tone Quechua

This is a bilevel print of my quechua girls picture.

A Sea Of Clouds

 

Darnit

Jeff and Igu

silence

sorry about the lack of reading material, im currently up north reliving the good old days in huanchaco.. il be back in lima tomorrow so expect a bumper sunday goody bag…

Me Strapped to a Nutter.

I went hang gliding today. i didnt set out to do it, i went along to photograph jeff having a flight, but some dude who had a tandem glider but no passenger asked me if i wanted a flight for free. being in the sort of mood to strap myself to a total stranger and [...]

What?

The iguana at the front belonged to one of the hang gliders, and he gets left behind whenever his owner goes gliding. The basket is his home. Peru eh?

Cliffs

The lima coastline, with the wierd shingle butresses that line it.

Taking a dip

me dipping my toe in a tiny swimming pool..

The Shore

Abstract from above.

Roger Waters Live

This is the view from where we were, but the view was a lot better than this most the time until right at the end when the bloke in the middle got up on the railing and blocked the view. it was an absolutely amazing, indescribably brilliant gig, with pyrotechnics and lazers and all sorts, [...]

Jeff

This is jeff looking unkempt and faintly dangerous.

Punta Hermosa

This is the beachfront. Not a great photo, but fulfills Lucy’s craving for pictures.

Jungle Fruit Stage 4

This is the actual fruit- looks a bit like alien eggs, but its very nice.

Jungle Fruit Stage 3

This is with the entire outer layer removed.

Jungle Fruit Stage 2

This is with the outer layer cracked away a bit.

Jungle Fruit Stage 1

This is the fruit before you open it.

OOh AAh SOo SUNBURnt!

i think i have 3rd degree burns to my face. its swollen, bright red, stinging and peeling. mm attractive. the surf was great, a bit big for me but i am a wimp. however the wonderful experience was rather overshadowed by the sunburn thing. three hours was all it was, i forgot my suncream for [...]

Response to Miscellaneous Comments.

im taking time out from surfing to write this, so enjoy it.
tom: yes, its roger waters. the real one. not a tribute, a child or a robot. roger waters.
katie: roger waters was the singer from pink floyd. you’re. like, so stupid for not knowing that.
lucie: tell me more about israel/palestine. email me! also, money yes [...]

comment dammit!
off down south for a few days so silence will descend, then its roger waters live on monday! aroo!

has anyone noticed my new header? (done entirely by me)… I loves it. 

Baptist Times Newsweek

Baptist Times Newsweek

Hilda

Knock knock!
Who’s there?
Hilda!
Hilda who?
Hilda world.. make it a better place.. for you and for me and the entire human race! 

Just a thought

Are basset hounds called basset hounds because they hunt liquorice allsorts? or is there a deeper meaning? they certainly have the figure of a creature that spends its entire time lusting after liquoricey things. also i cant imagine them being able to outrun anything much more mobile than a gummy sweet.

Big Basset Hounds etc

I just saw the biggest basset hound ever. It stood nearly 2ft tall and 3ft long, and in true basset hound style, was almost as wide as it was tall. It was being walked by a guy who looked like a midget because the dog was so damn big, and dog and owner had differing opinions as [...]

Supermarkets, Peru Style.

I’ve just been to Wong, one of the two big supermarket chains in Lima. Its sort of the Tescos of Peru, big air-conditioned aisles and offers by the tills. However, if you go to the meat freezer you can pick up (for 120 soles, 20 pounds) a whole, frozen, cling-filmed suckling pig. What a great [...]

Part Two of the Retrospective

So my post function hasn’t been working for the past couple of days. This is frustrating, but what makes it more frustrating is that when you go to “help” on Blogger it doesn’t give you an email address; it just directs you to a stupid forum where there are lots of people trying to sell [...]

Retrospective So Far

Well its coming towards the end of my Peruvian adventure, I’ve been in this country a week shy of six months and i leave in a month but from now until the end i dont really travel, just stay in Lima and work a bit because of how skint i am. Its been a really [...]

Leaves

Dead Cactus

Andes

Herbs For Sale

Cusco

Preety Flower

Sacsayhuaman Panorama

Funny Link

clicky here please

Sacsayhuaman

Me Committing Sacrelige

Strange Flower

Inca Crop Laboratory

This is where the Incas tested seeds for what climates suited them best. Each level has its own microclimate, and the whole thing is incredibly sheltered. for an idea of scale look at the rectangle slightly up from centre- the dot in the bottom right hand corner of it is a man.

Me, Machu Piccu and Half of Japan

Quechua Girls

Baby Alpaca! Baby Alpaca!

Landscape

Small Boy

Mach Piccu

Machu Piccu (unedited version)

Well you’ve heard the peachy version, so now il have a good old rant about the stupid system in place before one reaches Machu Piccu. Please bear in mind that this in no way affects how absolutely fantastic the site is, and if anything it actually makes it all feel more worthwhile when you actually [...]

Machu Piccu (edited version)

I went to Machu Piccu yesterday and it was wonderful. its actually as impressive as everyone says. laid across the spine of a huge mountain and with drops of more than 1000ft on 2 sides and a giant peak towering over the far end of the city, it just stops you dead as you climb [...]

A Quick Hello From A Very High Place

Im definitely above the lot of you right now, sitting at a computer in cusco shaking like a leaf because ive been chewing coca nonstop to ward off altitude sickness (although i havent felt it yet) and the effect is roughly the same as an awful lot of very, very strong coffee. so im enjoying [...]

Carabayllo Day 2

Lima, Carabayllo.

Lunch Lunch Lunch Lunch Lunch
The cats won’t get eaten (they just climb into the cage to get out of the sun) but the guinea pigs are stuffed.

This is Juan, the architect who, together with his sister and funded by Christopher and Gill David’s charity “Niños del Tercer Mundo” is building walls like the [...]

Lima, Very Easy to Typo as Liam

This is just a rather short, possibly a little dull update just to say that im in lima safe and sound but absolutely horrified by prices- a taxi from the airport? 40 soles. thats about 4x more expensive than Iquitos. damn. anyway, im here now, positively loving the non-boiling but still sunny weather, and im [...]

Photo Grab-Bag, Mostly Awful

A Bit More Belen

And that would be me- praying for rhinoplasty. And my guide, John, in the background.

A Brief Note On Police

I’ve just been in the main square watching some sort of band/maybe rally/social thingy with drums, and i stopped paying attention to the bongos because the police were way more fun to watch. They seem to have the most ultimately pointless job- i have seen one arrest since i got to peru, and that wasnt [...]

State of the Onion Address.

This is just a boring text-filled no-pretty-colours update because my camera cable is back at the hostel and i dont want to pay a taxi so i can go and get it. Im not attempting any sort of organised post, just a sort of scrapbook of observations ive had knocking around.

Im still in Iquitos, and [...]

Belen

“The Venice of the Amazon”.
A family.

The refresco shop boat.

Random girl.

Queen Victoria lily pads (3ft across).

Sweeping the doorstep/river.

Girl with noodles.

A rather wonky house.

A dog on a boat.

This wasnt actually in Belen, but its the coolest Beetle mod I’ve ever seen.

More Photos.

This is my 3rd attempt at publishing this and if it doesnt work im going to cry.

Amazon Sunset

Dead Palm Leaves.

Photo Grab-Bag

This is what jungle storms look like when theyre getting going.
On the boat to go and see Liam Gallagher.

Id like to apologise to all my readers about yesterdays post, i was in a bad mood and bad moods are not good for writing witty and entertaining pieces of the exceedingly high standard that [...]

Jungles.

I wrote a huge post yesterday, full of pictures and pretty colours, and then hit “post” only to be faced with the dreaded “cannot reach server” window. which meant i thought i had lost the whole thing. and it being my birthday i had a tantrum, signed out and went to the pub. Turns out [...]

Birthdays! Mine to be exact.

*I wrote this yesterday, and then the internet died on me, but somehow i managed to save it as a draft copy without realising. here it is, by some miracle*
Well im in Iquitos at last, a 3 day boat journey from hell (well i quite enjoyed it but everyone else hated it). we went through [...]

Team Bandido

This (minus kayleigh, whos taking the picture) is Team Bandido. Me, Carlos, Moises and Marina.
Ive just woken up in a town called Yurimaguas, arrived here at 9:30pm last night after a 7hr car journey which was like my nightmares- winding mountain passes on mud roads, gaping abysses and a driver who seemed to have [...]

Jungle!

Im in the jungle and its absolutely bonkers! il put up a post tomorrow of some things like the giant waterfalls and the moth that was bigger than my hand. it is so incredible here but i have to go and wander round mango groves. (sigh)

Early Morning Bus Ride

Typical Northern Peruvian Landscape

Phwoooarrr!

Who is more orange- me or the board?

The Moon

A 4-second exposure from the balcony of a restaurant overlooking the sea.

Chulucanas

When i was up in Mancora, i took the bus to Piura (3hours south) then from there to Chulucanas (1 hour east I think) to visit the grave of Jago Lear, who died in a car accident near there in 1984. He was the priest who married my parents and he was also my fathers [...]

Restaurant

This boy, Oswaldo, was the son of the cook at the place where i had breakfast a couple of days ago. He was fascinated by the camera because you could see the picture straight after taking it, so i gave him the camera to have a play, and got some pictures of a slightly [...]

Joke.

There are two peruvians in a desert, thy have been lost for days, theyre going slightly crazy from lack of food and water, and they are on the verge of death. suddenly Jorge grabs Carlos’s shoulder and says “look! Look, Carlos, we’re saved, eez a bacon tree!” (in a spanish accent. probably in spanish too.) [...]

Apologies

Sorry there has been a ghostly silence over my page the past week, for some reason/technical hitch/God hates me the system wasn´t allowing new posts. This meant that three times I wrote modern masterpieces and three times the computer ate them when I hit publish. So I sort of gave up and went and lay [...]

Yaroooooooo!

MY COMMENTS THINGY NOW WORKS!!!!!!!!! Now lets all play nicely…

Mancora

Im up in Mancora now, i have been since yesterday at 5am and it is so hot you wouldnt even believe. the pavements are very literally hot enough to fry eggs on, and the water is so warm its actually unpleasant to swim in. on the upside, theres only 5 days left till im [...]

Fogata For Mathilde

This guy, Gerald, is from Hungary, so he’s known as the Hungry Guy. He’s here to launch a leftwing newspaper called Adbusters. The ever-so-slightly posessed looking girl is called Annie, from Washington State, US.

Some Salgado-esque photos.

Ugly naked dog trying to keep out of the sunTree and mountain.

Huaca De La Luna

A depiction of a Moche god, in 2000 year old paint. The colours are metal oxides, which is why they didnt fade.Some piles of bricks. The Moche used to tax their subjects a certain number of bricks, in order to construct the temples.
The Main Plaza. The paintings on the walls are each taller than [...]

Two Boys With A machete

The title says it all, i think. I saw them in a village near Huaca De La Luna (the Moche temple of the moon).

My landlady

This is Anita, the sweetest woman alive. She’s the peruvian equivalent of my mother, but a bit more gung-ho about killing cockroaches.

This Is Stefan

Stefan, or Walrus, or Lobo Marino, is quite cool. he’s from sweden and most the time i would call him a friend.

More Cooks Son

This is him with his box of spuds.

The Cook’s Son

This is the son of the lady who cooks at My Friend.

Jingle Bells

so woohoo, its almost christmas, isnt it magical etc etc. not really from where im standing, theres something profoundly not right about chrismas lights here (which, the latest fashion dictates, must play horrible tinny out-of-tune versions of european christmas carols) draped lavishly around a) un-christmassy things like palm trees, slush puppy stands and the like [...]

Say Hello To Withnail

So, withnail is officially back, and i STILL havent got any soup. what i do have, however, is a headache, a runny nose and an inability to type. happy days. friday night didnt go particularly well because not that many people turned up. those who did had a wild time and danced a [...]

I Haven’t Been Posting Much And This Is Why

Looks good though, doesnt it? this was the first idea (which cesar binned) hence the wrong date on the corner and the astoundingly cool centre-picture (kudos to the one-man frat party). (private joke)
and yes my name is DJ SeeBee, i couldnt think of anything better at the time and now its too late.

Slum Street

All Those Black Dots Are Vultures

Tumbes Plaza De Armas

Aroo! Still Alive!

im so sorry about my deathly silence on the posting front, ive been up to my nipples in work for the gig im organising for next week. the flyers come through today, i cant wait to see them even though my design got totally rubbished and the owner of the club went off and cliparted [...]

How to keep the neighbours out of your bit of sandy hill.

Propriedad Privada

I think they may have been burgled while they were away.

The Watermelon Shop

This shop opens for 6am until 11pm, every day of the week, and all it sells is watermelons.

Luggage

The lady has a live chicken in a plastic bag on the seat next to her, and they are waiting for a bus. the chicken seems quite accepting of the situation, so it must be a regular holiday they take together.

Tumbes Church

sorry about how randomly placed these three pictures are, i had trouble with the format..

I Hate The Ecuadorian Border.

Im in tumbes (25km south of Aguas Verdes, the crossing point for Ecuador). The town is ugly, noisy, incredibly smelly and full of of irritating taxi drivers, all of which im getting used to slowly. ive got another 6 hours here so id better get used to it fast… i apologise for misspellings, bad punctuation [...]

The Beach

Flower!

Me Throwing My Hat Into The Political Ring

Just for the books, he lost. Acuña and Bazan won, just as the taxi drivers told me.

V!49R4

these are some excerpts from spam “Ch34p 0nl!n3 f4rm4cy” emails i keep getting. in order to try and circumvent spamguards these emails contain random text. i dont know where the texts actually come from, but i think they give the emails a sort of darker edge… each paragraph or line is from a different email, [...]

Baptiste Asks A Question

The Man Who Sells Sheeps Heads

Cactus

Dub-Tastic

Robbery

Well hip hip hooray, I finally got robbed yesterday. But before you hit that email account and start sending your concerned letters, let me explain the full story because its really quite funny. I went to Majorista with a friend to show him what its like, and Majorista has quite a bad reputation (quite rightly) [...]

Election Day

Peruvian People-Carrier

Classroom

These are the 4-5yr olds.

Class

These are the 7-8yr olds

A Humming Bird.

Its rather far away and indistinct, but thats because it was the size of my thumb and halfway up a palm tree. Its the only photo I’ve managed to get so far of the buggers, they’re just too speedy for me. Hence I didn’t get time to change from black and white to colour, but [...]

Phwoooaaarrr….

This Post Is Not Very Interesting.

Well thats my shiny new update out the window, theres a guy sitting at the computer where i store all of my photos so i cant actually post anything really new. not much new has happened either so i cant even regale you all with hilarious tales of my crazy life. the most interesting thing [...]

The Highway. A Bit Blurry As It’s From The Back Of A Moving Bus.

The Church Of Jesus "What You Lookin At" Christ.

Im Fat And I Eat Babies. Vote For Me.

Sorry About The Delay

i promise i will post later on today, i have a pile of new photographs to post so expect a smashing new page when you eagerly log on tomorrow morning over your steaming cup of real coffee. isnt it wierd- i would have thought i could get really good coffee here what with the coffee [...]

Peruvian Elections

The mayoral elections are coming up next week, and the race is beginning to hot up. its not a question of how many people your message reaches, or how many people agree with your manifesto, but rather how much total rubbish you can produce with your face on it. all the politicians are fat and [...]

Surfing

Slow days in huanchaco this week, the surf is down for the next four or five days so there is a sort of sleepy feeling among the local guys. ive set a date for starting to travel, the 28th of november, so that i can get to ecuador before my visa expires. then im going [...]

Still Alive

Sort of running through the internet cafe at the moment, so just a really quick post to say that yes, I am still alive, I hope you are all too. Thankyou so much to Anna for my lovely new shirt, I love it although the lady at my hostel keeps making gay jokes to me [...]

Quality Roads.

This is the road to Baptiste’s school.

Baptiste

His job in france is cleaning the windows of skyscrapers. What a nutter.

Packed Lunch, Peruvian Style

Look sweet? They taste better… A picture of the guinea pig pen in Baptiste’s school, by the way.

Me and a class

School

Look in the top right corner, i subtly slipped my gargantuan nose into the frame.

Veg Section Of Majorista

Little Girl Cheating

Baptiste’s School

This boy has some sort of dyslexia which means he can’t write etc, so he doesnt fit in well and no-one knows how to help him.

Cats For Sale

This cage was the size of a waiters tray, and had 10 or 12 kittens in it.

General Catch-Up

Sorry i havent really been putting much time into my blog the past few days, I´ve accidentally cultivated an addiction to youtube.com so whenever i get anywhere near a PC I end up watching videos of cats flushing toilets and the like. Curses on the evils of the internet. ive also started to spend almost [...]

More Majorista

I think he’s talking to the dead naked guinea pig.

Schoolboy

This boy just went crazy when he saw my camera, and ran round and round me until i showed him a picture of himself.

Pollo!

This is the schoolyard in Baptiste’s school, with the cooking fire in the background.

Jenga-d

This is the horrible moment when all those bricks come down and land in people’s beer.

Majorista

This cage contains, at left, a muscovy duck, and at right, a big tortoise. Well I suppose they’re not exactly going to eat each other, but look at the tortoise’s body language- facing the wall, arms outstretched. He’s clearly not happy with the situation.

*Cough Cough* 1000 Visitors, I Thank You.

So ive done it. gawd im pleased, and you all should be too. although i should point out that every time you hit the refresh button on my page the hit counter on my page counts it as another visitor, so it might just be me hitting refresh 1000 times. who knows eh?life in huanchaco [...]

School, But Not As We Know It

This is inside the school i work in in Trujillo, between two of the classrooms. the man passed out at stage right is the nightwatchman (its standard with schools etc to have someone who gets to live within the compound in return for taking the fall if anything gets nicked). he’s usually drunk, so [...]

My New Waterbed

Sorry about the long gap between posts, ive had rather a lot on my plate the past couple of days. yesterday i went with my french friend Baptiste to see his school which is in one of the really deprived slum areas which line every highway here. it was really nice though, the children are [...]

The Littlest Hobo

We´re Builders, We Are.

A Self-Portrait Of Sorts

This is a shower in the building site i was working in, it has been partially demolished but the shower head is still there.

Some Things Are Universal

The Terrible Things A Camera Can Do

I hadnt dutched a trop, i promise….

Yet Another Eye-tearingly Ugly Dog

Some More Ingrish

That artisan gallery? Ah yes, I know it well…

Bogdanovich

this is the palase of all things alectrical. tremble all ye who enter here.

Fat People Shouldnt Dance

I went to Estribo’s last night, the night club i mentioned about 50 posts ago which is so posh they even check you for guns on the way in, and it was a rather horrible experience. partly i suppose this is due to the fact that i didnt go session drinking beforehand with a bunch [...]

Ive broken the 800 barrier!

*victory dance*
*not done yet*
and im back.
sorry about the silence that has descended over my page the past couple of days, i almost got round to editing it yesterday but was distracted by a hamburger which was almost big enough to eat me. (im not joking, it was the size of a dinner plate).
ive got a [...]

[title drought]

I dont have all that much to report today, im just posting to let you all know im still alive really. i witnessed something really rather funny earlier, Yenth Ccorba and his muscly friend were cruising on a bmx down Avenida Larco (at least 3 streets in every town are called Avenida Larco but this [...]

Builders. Need I Say More?

having fallen asleep last night with my face in the notebook i was writing in (end result, writing printed on right cheek, inkstain on bedsheet, large tract of amazing novel obliterated by nighttime drool although if i read my cheek carefully i might be able to save some of it) i was woken at the [...]

Grab-Bag of Me Photos

Orphans.

Look closely at the kid at the back. The expression is priceless.

Another Drumroll Please

I had this taken by my friend Grimaldo because i just loved the t shirt. who is father eric? and are his army from poland or are they housekeepers? Who knows. But check the muscly arms.

Flacha Sleeping in the Street

Small Boy Waiting for a Surfboard

School

New Zealander and Aussi Dancing

Withnail is back…

I feel horrible. So there.
I ate crab last night after much persuasion from the Señora and Abuelo and Carlos, even though i KNOW the raw sewage is pumped into the sea here, and, quelle surprise, i now have a stomach which is doing acrobatics to rival Harry Potter. i want to die, but at the [...]

Fruit, botoxed shoulders and dead cameras. A normal week, in other words.

I am so angry you wouldnt believe. an Australian girl crushed my camera lens last night and the poor thing isnt working right any more! Argh! and i thought australians were alright!
i took her by suprise with the flash when she wasnt expecting it and her reflex was to crush my camera. im hopping mad, [...]

An Orphan From Mundo De Niños

Kids Getting Ready To Go Fishing

More Pretty Colours

Pretty Colours

Yet Another Dog

There are a lot of dogs in peru, and im trying to convey that i think.

A Very Odd Flower

I Know It’s Cheesy But I Like It

Beach Life

Short Post Because The Sun Is Shining And I Dont Want To Be Inside.

i dreamed of england last night for the first time since leaving, nearly exactly a month after, in fact. the thing that made me smile was that the dream was entirely about how much i wanted the music drive out of my PC! so to everybody in england, my subconscious has just informed me that [...]

Small Boy In An Empty Swimming Pool

How To Give Someone A Heart Attack

Last night i was heading back to mine at 11:45 and as i got there i found, to my suprise/shock/horror a WHOLE TRIBE of mariachis! there were about 10 of them, all dressed up like the offspring of a cowboy and a pimp and with metre-wide hats that said ‘MARIACHI 2000′ across the brim. it’s [...]

Political Update

ive clarified what the fight was about, i think. at least i have three possible stories.
1) it was carlos vs. yenth ccorba because of customer theft and stuff. nothing was sorted out and they are both stropping like 10year olds
2) it was about an australian girl and two men were fighting over her, obviously in [...]

Local Politics

First real post in a couple of days, eh? ive been rather busy though these past few days because i have an awful lot of surfing etc to do… yesterday i cleaned a swimming pool. that was interesting. it was at my friend Kelly´s house, she’s canadian but her mother is marrying a peruvian and [...]

Drumroll please……

it was never going to be a great picture, but i think the hoodie really goes with my complexion…

[Insert Witty Title Here, I'm Fresh Out]

ive just recieved an email from katie saying that its not possible to add comments on my page. is this true? if so i need to sort it out but i have a minor issue in that the maintenance page of my blog is in spanish, and i dont understand an awful lot of it. [...]

Yaroo! More than 500 visitors to my page!

Ive done it, broken the 500 barrier! Im so happy i could boogie round the PC! i wont though because im the only white face in quite a large internet cafe and im getting enough stares as it is. theres a sweet called a ‘boogie ice’ you can buy here, its a little chewing gum [...]

Ok, peruvian computers have outwitted me again.

No pictures im afraid, the computer has decreed that anything which is remotely taxing to its circuits is bad. so you´ll just have to wait till later/tomorrow/soon. (delete as appropriate).

Laziness and Self-portraits.

Sorry about the lack of posts in the past couple of days, the surf yesterday was absolutely amazing and i spent about 6 hours in the water so now i look like someone has botoxed my shoulders. it aches so much next day because im so unfit, but im sure the ache is good, it [...]

Parrots. Quite a long way away though.

Even the pine trees here are cool!

Peruvian Hills

A less-ugly dog

A peecture for the Mother

I saw this and thought of you…

School Trips and Sunburned Noses

I finally went on the dreaded school trip yesterday, it was postponed from thursday which was a stroke of luck as it meant that i could spend the whole of thursday surfing in 30degree heat which was supremely satisfying. anyway, the school trip started at 9, we were all packed onto buses (no mean feat [...]

Sunset In Huanchaco

Sometimes i just [...]

Spectacularly Ugly Dog

I felt this dog needed to reach a wider audience.

Peruvian Street

i really like this shot- i dont know what was up with the chap in the suit but i think it gets close to saying what peru is really like. note, every street looks like this one, regardless of whether its the smartest street in Trujillo or the sidestreets of huanchaco, there are always potholes [...]

Big Smile Back In Place

I was able to go surfing today for the first time since saturday so im so happy, and i caught two good waves. its sort of taking the place of smoking- i go for a surf before breakfast, one before lunch if im not working, and one later on if i get back early enough. [...]

Peru versus UK, and other musings

Thankyou to maz for pointing out that my last post made me sound like withnail in the scene where he’s smothered himself in deep heat ( soup? why didnt i get any soup?).
I’m still feeling really rough, i cant work out whether its just a cold or what, but my head hurts to an alarming [...]

Illness

i felt a bit wierd last night so i went to bed early (ive stopped smoking, so i keep feeling wierd) but i woke up this morning with a horrible cold. the worst place on earth to get a cold- the landlady of where im staying has an odd taste in music so with my [...]

The Sea

This is where i live.

Gotta love the picture-postcard shot…

A very big grasshopper

i dont have small hands, and that is my index finger. i apologise for the quality of the shot, i took it at 2am today at a merengue (is that spelt right?) gig near where im staying.

Two of my classes.

This class are really nice and well behaved, theyre about tom’s age and a joy to teach.
This lot, on the other hand, despite their angelic smiles, are impossible. there are three pupils missing from the picture because i had to send them outside for misbehaving.

The School Gates

the writing that is just about visible all over the gates is tippex- the kids LOVE to grafitti anything that stays still long enough, to the point where every flat surface in the whole city seems to be covered with messages and awful ingrish (ingrish is great round here, it tries to be english but [...]

Thursday on the other side of the world.

I totally forgot to include this in my last post: when i was listening to carlin and carloses band a couple of nights ago i heard a very british voice from round the corner. i went to see who it was, got talking to the girl and asked where she was from. she said “oh [...]

A little Crabby

I went fishing on sunday (yes, its taken me that long to find a computer that worked reasonably well) and these crabs were absolutely everywhere and would just sun themselves on the rocks. they were rather difficult to get close to, hence marginally out of focus, and the picture really doesnt do justice to the [...]

Carlin, a native musician and possibly the most talented man i have ever met.

this is carlin and his amigo from california who is a singer and pianist. carlin will play any instrument he is given to a reasonable degree of competence within about ten minutes. The funky background is the upstairs bar in The Wave, a bar in huanchaco which is the local gringo meeting place.
right thats it [...]

The notice above this chair reads "paradise central".

this is one of the chairs in the restaurant- all of the tables have names and it amused me that a little plastic table and a little wooden chair could be named “paradise central”.

These are the people i live with.

this is fernando’s mother, doña petita. shes a great cook if you like peruvian food (im still not certain, but im slowly coming round to it)This is my host, Fernando.This is Fernando’s sister-in law, who lives above me. she’s victors mother.

IT DID!!!

So i managed to post my first picture! yaroo! it took some doing and i only managed one because i was in a tearing hurry, trying to post between classes. today im going surfing, so the hurry is there again but this time i THINK i know what im doing. here goes…
ok this picture is [...]

will this work?

Daily Update, the cats are pushing up the daisies.

im having some serious issues at the moment uploading pictures. ive got a few good ‘uns so far but there seems to be some sort of problem with the software compatability- i can get them onto a pc but the site refuses to upload them… will get back with any changes on the situation.
in other [...]

First day in Trujillo

peru is amazing. ive just had my first lesson and i really enjoyed it!!! the kids are all too happy to answer back in the school but if you shout at them they clam up and are really fun to teach. sounds slightly mean actually. its so sunny all the time i just cant believe! [...]

Hotet Inkawasi, Lima.

ive just woken up from possibly the best eight hours of sleep in my life. i got into lima at 11pm last night after flying pretty much non-stop for nearly 20 hours. on the transatlantic leg the couple in front’s baby decided about an hour in that it had something to say, and after that [...]

Steve and Pete at Tregate

Tigger

This is my guinea fowl, Tigger. I hatched him from an egg when i was 13, and now that im going on my gap year he’s going to live with my boss, Jeff. Hence pics of him in the shop.

Two pictures from Tom and Kim’s gig.

Dave contemplating Tigger contemplating life.

Hannah 2

My Boss

sorry its so blurry, it was taken on my mobile in a nightclub at about 2am when i was a little the worse for wear…

Jeff, last night

A landscape

Slight alteration to my profile picture

Im just posting this so that i can change my profile to display it. but im pretty proud of it anyway.

This WASN’T me.

Damn yellow box wont shift.

Little yellow box on my photos

Ive just spotted a little yellow box in the bottom of some of my pictures. its a watermark which my tiff converter automatically adds without asking, but i’ll see if i cant get rid of it. curses on photoshop cs2 for not having a batch tiff converter.

Hannah

Rhys versus Welsh summer, at the beach

More A-level Plant Project

A-level Plant Project

James Sykes

Who needs photoshop when you’ve got drink and an imagination?

Pete

Jacie and Olly at the pub

Peru!!!!!!

Sorry to all of my multitudes of fans (the joys of having a healthily cynical outlook on life eh?) that i havent been posting, july and august have been p-r-e-t-t-y mental but ive got to get my head down now because IM GOING TO PERU ON THE 3RD OF SEPTEMBER!!!! i cant wait, its what [...]

here are a few photos i took. if you like them p…

here are a few photos i took. if you like them please write and tell me!

A note to anyone who stumbles upon this page.

I’ve just been flicking through the other blogs on this site and as far as i can see there are some really creative people out there, and also some really BOOORING ones too. so if i start posting crap like “today i went to church with the fam, now i’m online just checking my emails.” [...]

First Post

Everyone’s got a blog these days so i suppose i should too. Baaaa etc…