After hightailing it from the Gold Coast I ended up in the 3rd biggest city in Oz, Brisbane. And as you can see, its quite lovely. There’s…not much really to say about Brisbane. It’s a city, it’s very pretty, very modern, very swish and stylish and efficient. There’s a decent night life, some wonderful museums and a […]

Read more "Land of the Queen – Brisbane to Noosa in a week"

A note to any potential readers – this is going to seem like absolute nonsense of the highest order. This post is a picture in my head from a very high level, on how I wish to view the use of god and the way we have moved forward as a species – so if […]

Read more "God from Man, and Man into God"

This is a re-post of a previous piece I did two years ago from my old blog (chaostheorysquared.wordpress.com). I’m pretty proud of this one, so I’m sharing it again as I feel it fits the theme of what I’m trying to do with Observations from Afar.   So this weekend was Tankfest. For those that […]

Read more "Forgetting to Remember"

Another week, another set of changes. I left Sydney behind, moving onto Spot X, near Woolgoolga (no I did not have a stroke – that’s the name). And it looks a little like this: Pure Paradise this. After 10 hours in the night, where you’re on a coach with little comfort nor warmth, arriving and […]

Read more "Surfing and Byron Bay"

  In that time span I have seen two sun rises, slept for two hours, experienced three airplane dinners and a breakfast, and watched a plane outrun the sun and chased after the dark side of the planet. Meanwhile the timezone changing has messed up my watch, phone and brain to the point I don’t know if […]

Read more "That Flight"

About 6 months ago I was wondering what the hell I was doing in an office, working the hell out of a job I felt no emotional connection to, stumbling from day to day without any sense of purpose or direction beyond “Eat, sleep, work, repeat”. And now, here I am, everything I own precariously […]

Read more "Start of something new"

Brexit. It sounds like an awful version of a Twix, or the kind of budget cereal Asda would knock out at 50p a box. Rather unfortunately it refers entirely to the notion of the UK leaving a trading and regulatory block of countries called the EU. It’s a term increasingly becoming bitter and broken as […]

Read more "Why the Debate About our Future has Failed"

All things in life must come to an end. It’s a theme I have come to associate with great periods – leaving school, finishing college, graduating university. Other moments too – the shifting of friendships, the loss of family, the change of environment. It’s not a bad thing (though it can be) but always, the world […]

Read more "Something Ends, Something Begins"

You go to school. Well, I say go, you’re forced against your childish instincts of play to go to school. Parents chuck you in, glad to be rid of your screaming, attention seeking self, glad to return to a bed at a decent time and not have to worry about you shitting yourself again. So […]

Read more "The journey to the Office desk"