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May 12, 2012 / Locations and Adventures, North America, Other Rants

Blue Star so Far. Camp America, North Carolina, USA

Blue Star so Far. Camp America, North Carolina, USA

Ive written a short blog on Summer Camp before but thought I'd just write a few during the summer. This is my 4th year (and probably my last) at Blue Star Camps. I got here about 3 weeks ago and just

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May 10, 2012 / Other Rants

If I was an Avenger...

If I was an Avenger…

I went to see the Avengers last night. I'm not massive fan of going to the movies but it is nice once in a while. In any case, it was a brilliant movie. Lots of action, a good plot, Scarlett Johane

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January 17, 2012 / Other Rants

How to remember the order of a deck of cards, and other ideas for improving your memory

Improve Your Memory While in South America we spent a lot of time on buses, so I took up reading (im more of a audio book guy). Many hostels have a book swap system so and I came across this one ca

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January 10, 2012 / Other Rants

Whats With the Logo?

Whats With the Logo?

So, just thought I'd right a quick post to explain the logo. In 2009 I started a business called First Action. It was teaching Survival and Self Defence. It went well in the short time that I ran i

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January 8, 2012 / Europe, Locations and Adventures, Other Rants

The Harry Potter Castle and the Good and Bad of Anarchy. Alnwick, UK

The Harry Potter Castle and the Good and Bad of Anarchy. Alnwick, UK

A few weeks ago I went to a little town called Alnwick. It was actually on the same weekend I went to the observatory. Anyway, the people I went to the observatory with had hired a car for the weekend

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January 5, 2012 / Australasia, Locations and Adventures, Other Rants

The Great Ocean Road (and a piss poor attempt at a slideshow), Australia.

This is one of those posts that I wish I had wrote while I was doing the trip.. or at least taken notes, becasue I cant remember all that much of it (thats what you get for smoking too many drugs

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December 19, 2011 / Europe, Locations and Adventures, Other Rants

Astro-Porn (Keilder, UK)

Astro-Porn (Keilder, UK)

The other night I went ot the Kielder Observatory, about 90 minutes out of Newcastle. It is the only 'dark sky' observatory in Europe which is open to the public. (I think by 'dark sky' they mean that

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December 14, 2011 / Other Rants

The problem with making goals with deadlines

The problem with making goals with deadlines

So if you've read Think and Grow Rich (which you should!) then you'll be familiar with the ideas of giving yourself a 'deadline' to meet your goal. The problem I find with this is that it puts too muc

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December 7, 2011 / General Travel Tips, Other Rants

Organising Your Life for Endless Travel

Organising Your Life for Endless Travel

Organising Your Life for Endless Travel I feel, that the key to living a life of endless travel is to have the ability to pack up and go whenever and where-ever your heart calls to be. Here are a f

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December 6, 2011 / General Travel Tips, Other Rants

Packing Light - My Belongings

Packing Light – My Belongings

Packing Light This will be post is still in progress and will be completed around mid April 2012, mainly because there is one or two things I need to get/test before I complete the list and take ph

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