enough about me,
lets talk about you for a minute,
enough about you,
lets talk about life for a while!

well people! this is the end of the racing the world journal for some time! well at least until i end up doing something interesting. but don't worry. i'll try to email people with the details so you don't have to keep checking back here to see if i have updated! reasons why???? well a few.....

one, it was all a bit one sided. you guys got to hear the crazy shit i had been up to but i didn't get to hear about what you guys were up to. so please email me and i will do my best to reply. would love to hear from you all. racingtheworld@hotmail.com

two, i haven't been up to anything interesting fro some time. well nothing i think uyou guys would like to hear about anyway. just working, sleeping, not too much drinking and still no partner in crime yet, so pretty boring.

and three as someone i know said it is like i am still just around the corner so am putting the reality of distance in place and just getting on with life.

am looking at buying a car. a peugoet 106 so will at least be able to get out and explore a bit. have a new phone too but can't send pixs home for some reason so am taking old fasioned ones to send home. car shoould also mean i can get to see my relatives a bit more.

so take care everone. am gettting some gifts together to send home so some of you keep an eye on you letter box. plus if there is anything you guys would like from here such as a shirt or something small but can only get from here ill try to find it for you! sorry mike, couldn't get the girl from finland in a box for ya! lol

saw rodger d on the tv again the other day too by the way. doing the v8s. they have it on every so often so am keeping in touch. plus they have the jet boats so hear rawkins voice from time to time too.

anyway take care guys! see ya in the future!

i just want to take a moment to thank everyone that i have been involved with in nz with race cars! you are the guys that have passed on the knowledge to me so that i can work in motorsport here! you may think it kinda stupid thing to say but without you all i wouldn't be here! and in case you have ever wondered if wether any one of you could have got a job over here in motorsport, i would have to say that you all could! kiwis have that can do attitude and a work ethic that barely exists here! they still do some stuff here that is typical to poms such as using metric with imperial and a fasination with threaded at both end shafts so you get the one winds on and the other doesn't kinda deal but ya get that! it made me laugh! so thanks to all the boys back home!

and speaking of the boys back home, i watched some motorsport footage here from rotorua rally. the asia pacific stuff. and who was doing the interviewing? old rodger davis! you are an international star rodger! not quite the porn star i bet ya wanted to be but its a start! hahahahahahaha
i still remember the best thing from one of the rawkins and davis bathurst shows! and no offence intended at all rodger but it was a classic! from rawkins came " what does ford stand for? fuck off rodger davis! hahahahahahahaha hope you see the funny side to that rodg!

well done to joelle for finishing the rally third in class! well done girl!

another thing that is funny here is how much maori you realise you know! people are fasinated by the whole maori thing! is great!

later! :-)

for those who have been to london will know what i mean but for those that haven't ill tell you one of the most amazing things that happens in london. they have buskers in the tube playing and the way it echos down through the tubes is absolutely incredible! one guy was playing nothing else matters on the guitar in one stop and another girl was playing stairway to heaven in another one! it hard to describe it but it is fantastic! always have to give then some change! they are the ones that make riding on the tube great!

well it has been a while. went to snetterton testing with work! was fucking freezing! -1 wind chill! it is the first time i had tested at a track that the track temp was 3 degrees! it even started to snow lightly so everyone just came in for wets! lmao was incredible! was a long day though. had to get up at five for the trip out and got back at 9.30. you know the suckers you see at the track that are always the last to leave as they have to pull down the truck awning? well thats us! except on a race day we have three of the fuckers! not stoked about that but ya get that! it also made me laugh that as a works race team they still had same issues as a privateer team! the "have we got one of these? yeah but it broken or the do we have a battery drill? yeah but its flat or the no we haven't got one of those on the spares truck" problems still happen! lmao have been involved in the build of about seven cars now! am getting the hang of it. it is pretty frustrating as the shop isn't set up very well and it can get a bit annoying wondering around the shop looking for tools! the guys are ok to work with but some of them are arses so makes it a bit hard!one of the guys that has been there the last few weeks building the sr9 which is our le mans car worked on kayne scotts v8 tourer which was hard case! half way around the world to see a guy you saw at tracks in nz! they are off to paul ricard to test so if you watch the leman 24 hour or any of that series the black sr9 is our first total carbon fibre car to be done by us.

the flat is ok in corby. which is about 30 miles from peterborough. i live with two guys from work so make getting to work easy lol. they are good guys. not house trained yet but am showing them how to work the vaccum cleaner, dish washer and mop! so they are getting there lmao! one of the guys is a bit special and bought the sky tv and big screen to watch cartoons and play playstation. lol he is slightly autistic and a bit slow but has a heart of gold and knows how to drink so all is well! spent the weekend watching the sebring 12 hour and the grand prix drinking and eating kfc so was all good fun!

am back in london for the weekend to pick up my stuff and see my gran. went to the movies and saw HOSTEL which is the new quentin taratino horror. is ok if you like the traditional splatter film! fucken expensive to see! £12.50 which would be 37.50 nz dollars! ouch!

went out to dinner at a friends house last night. she is from finland and reackons all the rally drivers from there must have learnt to drive on the freeway! lmao there was her, her hot as slovakian flatmate erica, ericas brother and another girl that was from malta so was a bit of a multicultural night. oh and we had thai for dinner! hahahahaha. so am a bit second hand at the mo ;-) as we spent the night drinking slovakian blueberry rum which is too damn easy to drink! i bought of bottle of penot noir and ginger wine to the mix and it all got a bit messy! we played twister as the night went on and it was daylight saving here last night so 2 am became 3am and far to late to head home! hehehehehehehehe so my otherwise would have been boring night turned out pretty damn fun filled! lol and my horrorscope for last night? a meeting has far more significance than you can imagine right now! fucken spot the dog on!

so am heading back up home tonight on the train carting my big ass bag all the way! the one that galv almost fitted in full of clothes and shit so should be humour getting that fucker home! not!

liz and the girls at the london branch are all good. have my bank account sorted. so just waiting on my national insurance shit now! went to my grans and she is well. :-) am going to see how hard it is to make a carbon fibre headstone for my poppa's grave. would be kinda modern look to the site plus i would have made it so am going to look into that. plus how to glue it to the existing marble. :-)so mum and dad if i sort it then you will need to email me with it what you want to say.

well i think i have covered most of the events. not much happens in corby itself as it is a bit small but is ok. have a race meeting next weekend at snetterton so should be fun! lol first round of the series.
till next time! :-)

well just a quick update! have started a job! radicalmotorsport.com
is going well. assembling sports cars at the mo but am heading to snetterton for a test day this thursday so should be fun! have a flat witht two of the guys from work in a small place called corby! is a bung ass town but it ok! work is in peterborough so have to drive to work every day with one of the guys. need to get a car soon! lol otherwise all is ok. have a great st paddys day everyone! i know i will! lol
lol - laughing out loud
lmao - laughing my ass off!
ratflmao -0 rolling around the floor laughing my ass off

sorry guys couldn't attach the pics :-(

well not much has happened since my last entry oh no wait a little has so ill say lol
went out dinner and drinking again with lizs flatmate bern for her birthday. she is really milking this one! she has had three bday dinners so far and we have another this saturday! i said to her well ya get that when ya 50! lol to which she replied with the middle finger salute! (she is 44) lmao
was a great night! almost got in to two fights when one of our friends who was more than a bit drunk knocked into some other very drunk guy and neither would let it slide lol was fun for as bit. just school yard yelling and threats but could have gone bad lol the other was some guy tried to jump the que and steal our cab to which we were having nothing of! more abuse and yelling followed to which i found highly amuzing! we finally got into the cab and our drunken friend turned to me and said ' ya know, i really like goin on the piss with you kiwis! your so laid back!' to which i replied 'well you poms are highly strung enough for all of us so there is little point getting wound up as well!' hahahahahahahahahahaha

there were a few sore heads the next day but after my training in dublin i am well trained on the before sleep ritual to reduce hangovers. lol so i wasn't to bad.

liz's friend little deb arrived from nz the other day. i was entrusted with the task of meeting her at the airport as everyone else was working. i hadn't slept well for about four days before and i only got about 2 hours sleep that night and had set my alarm. i work up to this fucken noise thinking where am i what is that noise if its my alarm what did i set it for and what time is it? took about a minute to work it all out and that no i didn't have anymore time available for a quick nap! lol

so i got dressed, and got my shit together and headed out. all went well for a while till i had to get on the bus to terminal four!!!!!!!!! then it went bad! lmao
i came out of the tube and followed like a half asleep sheep, the masses towards an awaiting bus!
i should have twigged that there was noone on there with bags or to the fact that it was all guys with hard hats on. but no! so off we went and it wasn't until we went past the turn off to terminal four that i realise it had gone wrong! turns out i had gotten on the bus with the construction crew for terminal five!!!!!!!!! and no the bus wasn't going back to the tube! FUCK!!!!!!!!!!!
so i got off and asked how to get back. was told that i had to catch the bus back to central station and then a bus back out to heathrow! or i could run down the road for ten minutes and to the next security point and get the bus from there! so here is me running (cos i love to run! not lol) at 6 o'clock in the morning around london heathrow to get to the security point! i was laughing my head off the whole way as i couldn't believe i had fucked it up again! lmao
well i managed to talk the security gaurd into letting me on the bus back to the tube and we headed off.
when i got there i found the right spot and waited for the bus. when i arrived i had to laugh again because in big writing down the side it said BUS TO TERMINAL FOUR in big fuck off writing! lol it was about 7 by the time i got there and thought i might have missed her so i asked all the little deb type looking people if they were her and luckily none were so i hadn't missed her. liz then phoned and said deb was at the passport control and that she was on her way with a cab and driver as she had got back from africa earlier than expected (liz is a nurse that flies around the world to pick up tourists when the get sick on holiday) so i went to the arrivals and got the sign i had made out of a kellogs box and put it on my head (yes it was a sign made into a hat! hahahahahaha) i figured that it would cheer people up as they got off the plan after their long flight and odds are they would never be seeing me again so why not play the idiot for a while and cheer people up. well at least until deb arrived lol which i am happy to report worked very well! many glum looking people suddenly laughed when they saw me! was great!!!!!!!!!! i then heard this hysterical laughter coming from behind me a turn to see liz pissing herself with laughter! hehehehehehehehe we waited for about 20 minutes and no deb. so we walked around for a bit trying to find her. this causing many more people than anticipated to laugh as liz wouldn't let me take the sign off! lol the cabbie guys holding their signs found it hilarious! was cheap humour to the masses! lol we finally found her and made our was home! they laughed even more when i told them i had spent part of the morning at a building site! oh and by the way, the work at terminal five seems to be progressing nicely lmao!

so am just hanging out till sunday when ill catch a bus (yeah dodgy i know but the more i do the better at it ill get i figure lol) up to peterborough and rejoin the work force. our workshop has a webcam by the way and if you have a fast enough connection you can watch the proggress of the cars in the shop

oh i almost forgot! has been given a new nick name by jen! GUCCI (pronounced similar to mucky, gucky)
i was given this after purchasing a pair of gucci sunglasses in malaga. i ground the guy down (MIKE WOULD BE PROUD!)from 25 euros (which is fuck all anyway) to 10 euros! lol they are genuine really they are! hahahahahahahaha hence the name gucci! lol

take care guys and ill update again when i can.

gucci xxx

just a short update.
i have a job!!!!!!!!!!
www.radicalmotorsport.com
start in one week. pay is crap but job oppourtunities are fantastic! they are even building a le mans car!

people's dopplegangers i have seen lately -

gordon southy
always see emma galloway
miss jakie mcgraw
nigel achers
capt bent darkley (only when mike sent a photo of himself at baypark! lmao)
hallie wallace
saw matt wallace tonight he was driving our cab!
mal lowry

well were was i.....
alone thats right!
nah quite that alone. it is amazing how your friends become your family when you are away from home.
problem is now we have stopped travelling around you tend to start thinking alot more which for me is not a good thing. jen used to be amazed at how i could walk around without a million things running around it my head! secret was that travelling to my mind off my problems and my past but now i am sitting still it creeps in. plus not reading as much as i was when we were travelling means im not escaping too often.

anyway, back to the story i hope you are all finding it interesting and i am probably just talking to myself but who cares! i am still in search of the answer to roll music and jen assures me that dave 'the edge' evans will know the answer to this so i am keeping an eye out for him! oh and bono but that a bit different. if i see him i have to grab him and put him in a crate and send him to vegas.
hehehehehehehe

got a book today. it is the autobiography of valentino rossi called 'what if i never tried it'.
so am looking forward to reading it. discovered he lives in london so may get an opportunity to get it signed!

have two job interviews over the next few days. one is with a company that builds sports cars and another is working for a crane company which it turns out purely by chance that it is owned by greg parkin's (which is a good family friend and motorsport dude) brother!!!!!! they are both miles out of london so have a bit of time to read. is a costly way to go to job interviews but hopefully they pay off!

so ill let ya know how they go.

general stuff has happened otherwise. went to sunday lunch at liz's relatives place. best part about visiting relatives is you get a big cooked lunch! mmmmmmmmmmm they even had pavlova so i was very fat after that! they are cool people to so really enjoyed the day out!

went out on the tiles with liz's flatmate and her boyfriend on sat night and got pretty drunk! the all dressed up as gangsters and moles from the thirties kinda era so was great fun! got chatted up by more old women which was hilarious but ended up snogging this girl ali, who was kinda cute! was too drunk for phone numbers or anything like that but may end up seeing her around somewhere. aren't looking for anyone at the moment anyway as have limited funds to do anything let alone taking women out!!!! but is fun anyway. at least she was more my age which was encouraging! lmao!

one day maybe ill get over things from my past and move on but still think about things alot! too much actually!

oh fuck i forgot to tell you all the greatest piece of news i have had for ages!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
im going to be an uncle! a real life one not just a token one! am so stoked! can't wait! my sister donna is knocked up (hehehehehehehe) so am looking forward to the hatching! :-)
they had been trying for a bit so i'm sure her husband is glad he can get some rest! well done guys! congratulations! xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

ok so i have said enough for today ill keep ya posted on any development on the job front!
take care and have fun in the sun!

i think the last time i updated was some time ago in a galaxy far far away.......
alot has happened since then.

it all started off well with a plan in place and everything which is totally unlike us! the plan was to get our shit sorted, store it away at the hotel, and go and have a few drinks and some dinner before catching our plane back to london! sounds like a solid plan eh?!!!

well then sangria came along and those damn crane games that you spend heaps of change on to pick up some cheap ass soft toy! well we both were of the opinion that our flight out of spain was at 10 pm.
so at seven we descided after alot of sangria and two soft toys later that we would head to the hotel to just check our itenerary! well it took about ten minutes to get to the hotel and a couple for the guy to get our bags and about thirty seconds to check our flight interary! and then it all went bad!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

our flight left malaga at 8.05pm!!!!!!!!!!!! arrived in london at 10pm!!!!!!!!!!!!!
a mad panic ensued and we flew out of the hotel toward the first cab we could see! we crashed into the back seat and yelled 'airporto rapido' to the driver who luckily drove like king carlos's brother through the traffic and red lights and small children and old ladies! we quite a trip! felt like i should have been calling notes or something! hahahahahaha i said to jen that i would get the bags and she just needed to run like fuck to the counter! she bailed and ran and i paid the driver with a healthy tips for the driving display!

i walked into the terminal with all our crap and found jen talking to the plane people! it didn't look good! we missed our flight by ten minutes! i have to confess that at this point i lost it! i couldn't believe we had fucked up again! (hey it at least is keeping you guys amuzed!) I ended up crying for a bit which isn't like me at all in those sorts of situations. i can usually keep a level head but not this time! jen managed to organise another flight for ten the next day and even sussed out the price of accomodation but it would have worked out to be about 100 extra euros for room and taxi so yeah you guessed it...... hotel airporto it was yet again! we found a place to settle and i went for a walk around which is were things got interesting! i found this lady at the internet who had missed her flight also and i suspect she was too drunk fro her flight as she was too drunk to work the computer! so me being me helped her organise her flight out of there which meant she had also just become a guest of hotel airporto!

turned out her name was tina she was 44 from liverpool and just quietly she had quite a tidy body for a 44 year old but she certainly had seen some action!
she was very greatfull for the help and she took me and jen to the bar downstairs which we didn't know existed and bought us a few to many beers! so after a day of sangria and then beer i was feeling pretty drunk! she need to use the toilet so i offered to take her there. ok i get this over and done with quick.... i ended up making out with her on the way! hahahahahahahahahahaha nothing serious or sexual just a bit of snogging! oh but don't worry i was given my share of shit about it once jen and the 'kiwi girls' heard about it! i haven't been able to forget it! so we all crashed in the termainal for the night and i slept fuck all. there were quite a few people there as there seems to be in airports at night.
so we managed to get through the night with no majors.

we said our goodbyes to tina in the morning her flight left before us and qued up for our flight.
we got through all the bullshit and went and sat at the gate marked on our ticket. we just laxed out for a bit then i was getting a bit close to the departure time and there weren't many people around so i went for a look!

found that they had changed the gate on us and there was five minutes to get on the fucking plane!
so i ran back to jen grab our stuff and her and ran back to the gate! was not a happy camper!
finally got on the plane. had to fly back to gatwick which was a bit of a nightmare to get back to the house from but we were just glad to finally have made it to london. it was great to be able to just head to liz's and crash out!

we had talked in spain as to what we were going to do. we had our next plan which was to go to waterford in ireland dor a month and work there for a bit but it would have cost more money to get there which neither of us could afford to spend plus jen didn't have a work visa or a holiday visa so she couldn't have got anything good. plus if she got busted she wouldn't have been allowed back for sometime so we discided not to risk it and resigned to the fact that the was going to have to go home.
just for six months to earn some money and sort out a visa then she would be heading back.

so she changed her flight and we then discovered she would have to leave the next day! we were gutted. many tears and hugs and alcohol followed. i couldn't believe that my partner in crime was going to be leaving!
we took the tube and the express train to gatwick again and she checked in. we went had had a coffee in the exact same place where she had arrived all those weeks and experiences ago! was kinda spooky!
i had decided that i wasn't going to cry anymore as she wasn't going for good she was just heading home for a bit. i didn't help much. i said to her i wasn't going to say goodbye i was just going to say see ya later and that i wasn't going to stand there watching her disapear off into the distance. i gave her a big hug goodbye, said see ya later and and headed home. i then turned and started to head back to give her one last hug but i was too late........ she was gone.

took me twenty minutes to get out of the terminal as i couldn't think straight and no long had someone to guide and show the way so i was a bit fucked. was a bit of a mess on the train but got i together and headed to my grans place to catch up with her. she wasn't home or had the tv up so loud she couldn't hear the door or the phone so i went for a walk. i walked from colliers wood to clapham common and just enjoyed being in the sun in london and tried not to think about being alone for a while.

it was then i discovered that you can ride a quad on the road around in london so that cheered me up a bit. i got a magazine and headed to the pub and had a pint and read my magazine. was all about 'the doctor's' test in a formula one car in which he has shown a glimmer of hope of being competitive so fingers crossed! he didn't do well in rallying but in a formula one car who knows!

well thats enough for today. there is more as i am about two weeks behind on my journal so stay tuned!
have two job interviews this week so fingers crossed.

see you in the soup, we'll have a pea together!

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well we made it to spain. finally.
we went to nantes france after visiting spain. we stopped in to see my second cousin twice removed, once aound the table and down a flight of stairs! hahahahahaha for the perpose of this story we shall call her "lucy"! we stayed in a great place which was a hotel but really cheap! four and a half shamrocks for it! she took us out on the sculls with her five mates. one guy was one of the funnies fuckers i have met! just his nature and character had us all in stitches! we got to bed about 2am! we dragged ourselves out of bed and i am never drinking again! lmao we packed our crap up and us being us hadn´t organised our exit trip yet figuring the train was going to be it. we got there and the train had left 10 mins earlier and it was the only one for that day! the next was a two pm the next day. plus it was going to take 24 hours to get to malaga by train! so we headed to the airport to find the place deserted! was asked enquired as to how much a ticket was and was told the plane had left 10 mins earlier! true story! plus it was going to cost 1000 euros for the next flight!
we were fucked! we couldn´t get out of nantes and if we could we couldn´t afford it!
we sat in the airport for about an hour!
the thought of driving to malaga hadn´t escaped us! plus stealling a plane or car or any form of transportation was looking completely rational! i personally just want to get out of nantes!
so we headed back to the hotel feeling pretty low!
so i got on the net and and organised so flights! if it was for the internet we would still bet there finding work!
i found a flight going the next night at 9.50 pm to gatwick. i then found another flight from gatwick to malaga at 7.15 the following morning! so that was us! we hung out in nantes and went and saw a couple of movies. don´t go and see breakback mountain. it sucks despite what the critics say!
we went to the airport four hours early as if we had missed it i would have lost my mind!
our plane was late so wee eventually flew out at 11.30 which did bother us as was just glad to be out of there! we landed and gatwick and found a place to crash in the terminal along with about 40 other people!
we got on the plane and arrived here ( sorry this story is a bit condensed at not much time) the place s beautiful and i am writing this in shorts and a t shirt as it is heaps warmer than anywhere we have been yet! it is right on the beach so am stoked to see the sea and sand and sun! liz has come down here for a few days too which is why we wanted to get to malaga so as we didn´t piss her off but not turning up! turns out she would have been quite fine without us as her trip here last week produced something to keep her warm at night hahahahahaha

so we are here till saturday and then not sure. am almost out of money and jen may need to go home to vegas for a bit so have some real planning to do.
take care people!