I got my leg over a horny camel in the desert!

My trusty stead for my ride in the desert was the lovely Sandy - he drooled and made weird and interesting noises like no other ride I have ever had to endure. Let me tell you Sandy was one horny devil, his sensitive nostrils could smell the female camel of our caravan from many miles away and I assure you it is not a pleasant experience being on a camel as he gets a whiff of camel fanny.



But Sandy was a lovely creature when he got his libido under control, he had the most gorgeous eyes and beautiful long lashes ... as he battered his eyes at me and flapped his grotesquely long tongue about I couldnt help but feel affection for this majestic creature.

That was at the start of our trek. After roughly 5 minutes of being bounced around on Sandy's back, I realised that certain areas of my anatomy were getting much more pummelling than I would have liked. The constant pounding on my delicate bits was not-so-pleasant and after 2 hours the fear of permanent damage began to set in. This would have been the time to hop off my trusty stead and hop onto the camel-cart that is usually brought along for tourists who get over the novelty of being on a camel and begin to have such worries.

Unfortunately for us though, we had two free-loaders on our trip, Lydia and Mirga, who insisted on lolling about on the camel-cart like ladies of leisure and refused to move their asses and relieve us of the terrible troucing our crotches were enduring. I'm not bitter I swear!

Sunset in the desert was a spectacular experience though and was amazing enough for us to forget all about the injuries we had suffered in the day.

The night-time entertainment came in the form of some local musicans - their instruments and singing provided some pleasant sounds and I'm sure they could be heard for miles around as the sound travelled across the open plains. Then after a few beers it was off to our tents for a good nights sleep.

Oceania House-warming Party

Well the party of the year happened last Saturday and if you werent there you are officially a total Loser!

Merrelyn, Toli and Me

The party hosts were Merrelyn, Toli and Me and the reason was cuz we just moved into our new house in Marrickville - the theme for the night was Oceania. Pirates, Lifeguards, Coastguards hula girls etc

Viking Merrelyn, Captain Spongebob, Dave the Diver, Captain Bronagh, Teresa and Lifesaver Susan

Alex, Hayley and SpongeBob!

Scott, Captain Nipple, Bronagh and Captain Spongebob - the 4 pirates

The night went absolutely swimmingly (excuse the pun! hehe!) and plenty of fun was had by all. There was of course some circumspect behaviour that I really would be unable to justify or explain so I will just let the photos do the talking!

Captain Spongebob gets tortured by Coastguard Matt as Captain Nipple supervises with an evil-eye.

Some arse-ramming action from Scott and Drew

Captain Nipple with Captain Spongbob who seems to be really enjoying that bread roll!

Coastguard Matt looking funky with the ducky!

Bray looking spiffing with his ducky!

Scott loving the ducky action!

Bray, Cindy and Vinny - I have no idea whats going on here!

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House-warming Party

Hey Folks,
there's a party on soon!
Be there or be square!

Long time no blogging! **** Jan 2007: Chemistry-nerds tour Tasmania!

One hundred thousand apologies for my recent lack of attention to my blog and all you avid readers out there. I will start with some photos from my chemistry nerd tour of Tasmania (AKA the land of the inbreeders) that we did in Jan/Feb. The first photo below was taken at the bottom of Cradle Mountain in Tasmania - before we started the 7-hour ascent. Chemistry nerds: (from left to right) Schilter, Bray, Me, Natasha and Seamus

I do admit that it looks overcast in this first photo but as can be seen in the second photo the day turned out to be quite a scorcher

Chemistry nerds (Part Dieux): (back row/left to right) Bray, Natasha, Me and Seamus (front row/left to right) Schilter and Ellen

After conquering Cradle Mountain, we had a chilled out day cruising the bay at Strahn and the following day we went quad-biking in the dunes

Chemistry nerds (quad-biking): Seamus, Natasha, Bray and me

And check out this cute Alpaca:

The main reason for travelling to Tasmania was to attend the Australian Inorganic Chemistry conference which without a doubt was the highlight of our trip but unfortunately I forgot to get some cool photos to show you all!