{"id":45,"date":"2006-10-29T21:20:17","date_gmt":"2006-10-29T20:20:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.squage.com\/blog\/?p=45"},"modified":"2006-10-31T14:38:14","modified_gmt":"2006-10-31T13:38:14","slug":"8-days-to-go","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.squage.com\/blog\/?p=45","title":{"rendered":"8 Days To Go…"},"content":{"rendered":"

…and I’m SO amazed.<\/p>\n

Today I went to a pub called The Landseer in Islington, as part two of the “Pat\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Leaving and Pauly\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Having a Birthday” weekender. Loads of mates from Uni turned up, which was brilliant.<\/p>\n

What really has made today amazing are the things that they’ve made \/ created for me on my trip around Oz:<\/p>\n

1) Radio Shows!<\/b>
\nA whole 9 shows, made by various mates (Dave, Pauly, The Mark, Chanmander, George, Stu B, Lev, RTJ, Bobince, Russ and Mr Paul Hardman) – totalling 11.5 hours – for my listening pleasure on my journey around the world! Utterly ace of you peeps, thank you so much!!<\/p>\n

2) Sir Iain McDonkey’s Guide to Australia<\/b>
\nFor some while, RTJ and myself have had a strange injoke going on about loving horses (well, we pretend<\/i> it’s a joke…)… so he thought he’d get me something that I might find amusing<\/strike> very useful<\/b> on my travels.<\/p>\n

I definitely didn’t piss myself for 10 solid minutes on receiving it. No. Ahem.<\/p>\n

Ladies and Gentlemen, I give you… Sir Iain McDonkey’s Guide To Australia:<\/p>\n

\"Sir<\/a><\/p>\n

(click on the picture to view the whole 8 pages…)<\/p>\n

3) Crazy I Dog Thing!<\/b>
\nMade by Sega Toys, and grabbed from Japan by Ness and Lee when they went their recently.<\/p>\n

It’s a cute little pink robot dog thing that dances to some Japanese pop tunes when you press its nose.<\/p>\n

I’m not going to describe it further yet as I’m going to get some batteries for it and take a video for you to enjoy :-) I wonder if people will enjoy it playing Japanese pop at full blast on the plane…<\/p>\n

4) THE BEST THING IN THE WORLD<\/b>
\nCourtesy of Si and Ruthie (created, in fact, by Ruthie’s fair hand)… this came in the form of a smallish box with a HP logo on it. Previously my experience of HP branded boxes has gone along the lines of:<\/p>\n

“Vague Interest… Gradual Excitement Increasing… Box Opening… Disappointment At Some Crap Print Cartridge.”<\/p>\n

Not today. No. Today went along the lines of:<\/p>\n

“Interest… Gradual Excitement Increasing… Box Opening… Utterly Speachless.”<\/p>\n

You see, for the box today contained this:<\/p>\n

\"SQUAGE!\"<\/a><\/p>\n

HE’S EVEN GOT EYEBROWS AND A CHEEKY SMILE!<\/p>\n

AMAZING :-D<\/p>\n

Something to take photos of at various locations all around the world? I think so!<\/p>\n

5) Summary<\/b>
\nYou guys rule :-)<\/p>\n

Toodles,<\/p>\n

Pat<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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