I’m down on west wittering beach. Lovely golden sands. Old English country homes along the dunes. Kites flying. People swimming. Yachts sailing. Reeds twitching. Children laughing. Second world war planes droning above. Waves crashing beyond. This is the most english beach i’ve been on. Perfect for a bit of sun bathing!
Where’s the ice cream? Cider?
Sat here is gorgeous on this beautiful sunny day, with the isle of Wight a haze out there. England at it’s finest. I guess the cycle ride here put me in the perfect demeanor. This area Is awesome.
Yesterday was quite a sucess. After an early wake, tidy up, the boat was hauled off down to the mud. We kept busy doing bits. And a few hours later, the tide was up, and the boat was afloat, can I day huray? It’s taken a bit longer than initially planned, but we motored her down to a marina.
It feels like purpose is partially fulfilled, and is great to feel her floating. Not long now and she’ll be ready to sail.
Last night after all of the excitment, I went off with oli. I worked with oli in the Cyberdog shop in Camden years back. It was great to have such a serious, deep conversation. And quite a surprise, as I never knew oli was of such a way of thinking.
The two pint of local cider, and take-away Chinese made for a good sleep.
Well I better get moving, wash and get yo London. It’s ben’s birthday party.
It’s such a shame to leave paradise.
…another time.

I ate some cheesecake earlier, now my belly is bubbling something scary. It serves me right for eating soo much creamyness for the first time in a long time.
So I’m at grandpa’s up north. I drove up this afternoon in order to see them both before I leave with alan for the states.
I’ve come from Chichester, where martin and I have been working hard on the boat. I’m awed at how boat like it is now looking. It is finally almost ready to sail. And it us due to be in the water next week!

I’m soaked through, have been for hours.
I took today to learn to change the engine oil in a car, my car. Well to start with I had to make a repairation to the exhaust, easy as pie. Just picked up. Kit from halfords and stuck it all together. Draining the oil involved a quick google to get instructions, jack the front up onto blocks, but then came trouble as the previous person to do it tightened the sump valve and oil filter too much. Well with some violence this was solved.
While martin went off to give blood, I closed up, refilled the oil, and then lost half of the new oil due to a minor mistake. So finally seal up the underside of the car, while the heavens opened, hot covered in oil, went up to the boat to find the laptop soaked, along with lots of other stuff, oh well!
So martin and I went driving around to find more oil, and Chichester is flooded, seems they can’t build roads, or even roofs!
Well I’m all ready to leave for Switzerland, actually can’t wait, with this bloody weather, even if all this lightening is awesome.
Yesterday involved specs shopping around bristol due to a two hour queue for the Bristol museum to see the bansky exhibit. No we won’t come back tomorrow an hour before the museum opens.
And for something positive, martin and I signed up for our PADI 1 course
See ya in swissland.

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We worked hard in the morning, until the afternoon and it was too hot to work.
Then a long sweaty chill and I washed my car and got driving.
So now I’m at dads near cambridge, to get some stuff and sleep tonight, use a bed, use the net, so some washing, but most importantly have a shower.

I drove up to boulogne, stopped by Calais to buy some booze, so now I can say I have done a booze cruise, sort of. I got 8 bottles of red wine, 6 bottles of champagne, 4 bottles of breton cider, a bottle o tequila, and a bottle of navy rum. All for little over €80! and they aren’t cheap nasty things So I have booze for when I’m visiting peoples.
The cat across the sea was super smooth and fast, and cheapish. The seaside was beautiful and sunny, but at sea it was thick fog, I thought we’d have to go slow, but got to England in no time. The eurostar is too expensive now that it’s summer.
So last night martin and I went for Chinese, a bit of a dissappointment. But nice to chat with martin. Last night on the boat was te best night’s sleep that I’ve had In a longfggggg time.
Today we pottered about, but got much work done, jobs that could have taken him over a week had he been alone.
So I feel good, and super tired, so here’s to another good night’s sleep.

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It’s been a while, I should have upated after I got back from turkey, but work was consuming me.
My boss was being a real idiot as he had before I left for turkey. He thought/thinks that I was out to steal his girlfriend which is so far from the truth. So he was being rude, agressive and, once in the club, violent. Well Monday was my last shift, and I feel great for it! I just have to chase work up for payment for the work I did at new year, before I was working under contract. But he and I seem to had ended it on good terms?!?!
Turkey was great;
A break from the verbier bubble,
A break from work,
A break from partying,
A feeling of freedom,
The time to get creative,
Time to think, time to read,
Some sun and sea(somewhat cold!),

I got an implant fitted, and two days later a bridge fitted. It will take three months before the bone has healed onto the implant, so I’ll have to go back in June.
I had timeto visit Istanbul. The city took
My breath away. I just spent my time walking and photgraphing, the views and architecture and so much more is just so awesome! All must see this wonder of the world.
I saw an ancient city back in the south near Antalya, which involved renting a crazy car, seeing wild tortoises, awesome beach, and wondering a city over two thousand years old.
So the company drntacaremed turned out to be great. They had set me up in a great hotel room overlooking the beach in alanya. The rep in turkey is a lovely friendly man, with much experience of the area and tourism, who collected me up for the two hour ride from the airport. The dental surgery which they use is nicer than any I have seen in the uk. The dental surgeons seemed to be competant and experienced. It was great that aksel the rep arranged a trip for me to Istanbul, upon my request. All in all it was great value for money, and a great cost saving over having the work done in western Europe, not to mention the great travelling experience. I look forwRd to returning to have re crown fitted in three months!

Back to verbier ad there is less than two weeks left in the season and bars and clubs are having their last parties and even closing parties. So alan is here tomorrow, and everybody has tomorrow off work so it’s going to be a crazyyyy day. Bring on the end of the season madness!!!!!

it has snowed. it felt like a lifetime and lots of snow had melted, but finally we have some great powder, and i’ve had to great days of riding!

so i’m getting a bit sick of work. it’s probably mostly because everybody else moans a lot, and this bring the general vibe toward a negative feeling. but also my boss is being a real idiot. his girlfriend asked if i wanted to ski one day, sent me her number so i texted her once, and now he’s freaking out thinking i’m after his girlfriend, which is so far from the truth, but he ought to grow up, and be less insecure about his life. he just fired one employee yesterday, another handed in written notice, and if he doesn’t sort himself out, i may as well do the same, and then for the busy easter period, they’ll be quite short staffed, which will suck for the other employees, who will have to work so much harder. it’s a shame for everybody that he’s such an incompetent lazy manager.

i’ll miss the snow, but tomorrow i’m off to greece, analya, to get my tooths fixed. it’s so much less expensive to travel to places liek bulgaria, hungary, greece, and having looked online at reputable, reviewed dentists, i chose greece, being that i have never been there. so i’m trading in snow for the beach. i know i’ll miss verbier. but i really need to escape for a bit, some time to chill and relax. otherwise i’ll probably have to wait until july, so i may as well work this out and make the most of it. i imagine some slight discomfort and excruciating pain when getting this implant!

looking forward to the end of the season, the parties, the sun, the snowpark and alan and anne coming to visit, bring it onnnnnn!

yesterday i wasn’t feeling too well, i thought it was the alcohol consumption the evening before. but then i had to visit the toilet way too many times, and once i got to work i could barely keep myself from passing out.

work was slow, so i was sent home. so i stumbled to nicolas and lay n they’re sofa almost unconscious.

after i dragged myself home, i managed to watch a film with Marije(rob’s girlfriend who is quite ill). from duck til dawn 2 which is great fun. i couldn’t stop sweating and shivering. so i slept for 14hours, sweating sweating sweating. i just woke up and my lips were so dry they felt like they were going to fall off.

but i feel better now, and i hope i can manage work this evening.

so my bos said i’d be on part time, and on a salary of SFr1600. but i got my rota for this week and i’m doing 40+ hours, so i have to have a word with my boss about pay.

at least i finally have a day off tomorrow, which if we can get enough people together then we may take a trip to chamonix.

oh and yay, we should get some snow this week!!!!!

crazy night, no money, ace.

after finishing work early at 1am carla n i went to the pub, met her mates was cool, so we went to cas bah after it closed at 2am.

met so many many rich guys, that weren’t complete twat. one famous guy with table with 3L bottles of vodkja.

some banker from geneva.

so lots n lots of free drinks. not to mention emily on the bar giving us one each time we said hey.

but at about 5 am i got chatting with a kosovan who was in town on family money. we had such a heated discussion about the western civilisation, me arguing if he hated it, why join in, of all the places verbier. well he had a bottle of liquer in his hand, so shot shot shot every few minutes.

on the way home i bumped into some mates having the most full on fight ever, for fun, going harder than u’d see in a film, so entertainment.

the kosovan guy who i met was hanging out os a car with about 15 people in, so no lift for me, but i got  pain au chocolat!

though lost my phone, but replacement sim on the way, but lost of my new contacts form the winter.

so crazy crazy night, and not looking forward to work later.

oh and on the work front i’ve been offered a job for the rest of the season! ace!

i calculated that the average that i have worked each day is over 13hours! i’m soooo exhausted. today we had to close early because the chefs were unable to cope, one passing out on the floor from exhaustion, not hangover!

so my job is just a temporqayry job, because alx called me monday tuesday 3am, saying, dude we need help, do you want to work? so i said yeh, and started at 11am. my job was just going to be 5 hours making burgers, but it turned into 15 hours, and i was asked to work until the 6th. i make chips, make burgers, prepare other food, fry onion rings, cook burgers, wash stuff, lots and lots.

the guys i work with are super cool. yesterday we were drinking at work,a nd the boss had lots of champagne. at midnight we were closed to join the party in the central place, getting soaked with champagne. then back to work. it was great fun. we finished around 5, so had a dance in the street and then home.

vince spoke of trying to get me a job for the season which wpould be ace, as long as the shifts are more humane.

oh and last night it was snowing lots so the party in the streets was great!!!!!!!

so yay, home before midnight, so sleep, and i dont start until 1400 tomorrow

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