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  • It lives!

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    Aaaaand… I’m back. Since January, I’ve been mostly blogging at sportreviewnz.sportreviewnz started with links to sports stories I found interesting, and reviewing my old sports books. Then I started doing my sporting ‘cartoons’ (I always put that in quotes. It doesn’t seem right to include my farking around with photoshop, powerpoint and swearing in the…

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  • That’s about it…

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    This blog is OVER. When I started off this blogging lark I wanted to keep my sporting and ‘other’ interests seperate. I can’t be arsed doing that anymore, and have decided to have one blog for everything – sport / review nz. So get in there, quick smart.Thanks for reading Chartered Trips.

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  • What I haven’t been doing

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    Nope, none of this for me lately. And here’s a list of non-blogging excuses too – this should cover everything. My favorite is: “I just don’t enjoy it as much as I convince myself I do“.Procrastination is a killer, team, I’ve switched to the new blogger beta template and then spent ages making it look…

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  • God bless the Croatian fishies

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  • Pretty, innit?

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  • Pretty, innit?

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  • Blog neglect

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    I’m on holiday in the UK, Italy and Croatia until early October. If I get any decent photos, I’ll post them here – the most part will be on Flickr.Righto

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  • Alright, just one

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    Link pinched from Spare RoomThis is like a documentary. One of the things I enjoyed about working life in Dublin was getting TOTALLY shitfaced with your colleagues on a very regular basis. Usually on a Tuesday. It was typical for our director to declare over a nightclub table swimming with drink – “If I see…

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  • Score! Report

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    An ongoing series in which the blogger shares his budget orientated music and / or movie purchases, revealing something of both his refined taste and an unwillingness to shell out any decent cash for it. What? Beatles Box Set – 11 albums, plus the Yellow Submarine and Rarities making 13 bits of Beatles vinyl, all…

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  • Surf Spots 080806

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    – 14 Classic Tom Petty opening lines I’m a big fan of Tom and his nuggety, honest songs that always use the same three chords – they take me back to road trips from The Mount to Tairua and back again listening to Full Moon Fever over and over and over. Or maybe just Silence…

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