From Daisy
Ah, it's the inability-to-leave-the-job-you-th- ought-was-temporary bug! You know you want to go back Lucy. It's just denial.
Response: You're right, i'd give anything for one more sweet day of bookfetching! :S Bet you're starting to miss paperchase too, aren't you? xx
From Kevin
Yes, I agree with Catherine. You both must return to the library. It's um... a rule. Besides, I'm all alone up in Manuscripts, and well - I'll level with you.. my mind is starting to break.
Reader: WOW! That's a nice statue! It's so realistic!
Godfrey: Actually, that's our fetcher, Kevin. He's been like that since Shelly left. If you want him to do something, you have to give him a slip and poke him with this special prodding stick....
*reader pokes Kevin with the special stick*
*Kevin groans*
Response: Lol... you're really selling it to me there! I think it's time somebody escaped the evil clutches of the UL... but does anyone ever REALLY escape?? And if so, what are all those weird scratching noises coming from WBB2?
From L's mum
Just wanted to say thank you to you both for sharing your travels with us. The photos were amazing especially L's landscapes and Hol's orchids...(I can understand why you wanted to photograph them all). You have turned into a couple of intrepid women! Where did you say you were going next?
Response: Home!! Back to clean clothes, duvets and crunchy nut cornflakes! Well, I'm hoping there will be crunchy nut cornflakes... and chocolate seashells... L xxx
From Catherine
yes, of course come back to the library! We need fetchers and movers!!
Response: It IS tempting...
From may
Sawadee- Ka! reading your journal is bringing back sooo many memories! Your trek in the highlands looked so much like the orienteering I did in thailand. Hardwork but so beautiful. Sorry bangkok hasn't been that good yet... are you going to do a river tour? It's a real eyeopener seeing all the slums next to the incredibly beautiful temples and palaces ont the riverbanks. They also have these huge really scary killer fish in the river. Don't go swimming. Anyways...see you back in cambridge...soon! xx
Response: Maaaaaaaaaaaay!
The trek certainly was hard work! I nearly died. But it was worth it, so amazing. We've been getting around Bangkok by the river and canals a bit... the tours are quite expensive, but might try to do one before we come back. Someone was talking about the killer fish in the river! Said they look like a cross between crocodiles and fish... sounds pretty weird! Think I'll keep my distance. Anyhow, enjoying Bangkok, despite the heat! Phew, is it hot here! See you soon Maisy! xx
From Sarah F
Hello!
Wow, you'll be back in a few days then. Sounds as though you're still having a great time. Sunbathing, massages and partys on the beach-what a hard life!! I think Catherine's been in touch about doing some stuff when you get back. I can't wait! Looking forward to seeing you both soon. xx
Response: Hi!! Yeah, its been tough! :D We've heard from Catherine, can't wait to see you all either, should be good fun! I'm seriously thinking about coming back to the library too, if they'll have me... reunion! Lucy xx
From Betsy
Hey ya'll! It sounds like you have had so much fun! I've keeping up with your travels through the journal entries and pictures. I just wanted to leave one final message, as I head off to school on the 17th, and I have no idea the next time I will be at the computer. Continue to have fun, and I'll write ya'll soon.
Betsy
Response: Betsy! Thanks for the message! We're heading home in less than a week now, but I'll soon be starting to plan the next trip (which I'm gonna try to include Hawaii in... heh.) Have fun at Uni, will write you a letter soon! Take care, Holly xx
From richardi'm booooooorrrrreeeeeeedddddd. harry has gone back to manchester. there is nothing to do. meh!
www.theinsomniac.co.uk <-----we're back biatch!
http://img103.imageshack.us/i- mg103/1958/19as.gif <------i was bored as hell today. let it go through a few times so it can get up to speed. am doing a music video like this for a mates band. \m/
call me when you get back
got things to tell!
xo
Response: Dude!
It won't let me see the imageshack thing... just takes me to the main page. Any other way we can see it? Glad insomiac is back, never got to hear you on it before.
Back in less than a week, and cant wait to see you! We'll keep you entertained for the next month, have nothing to do either!
xxx
From Lt. Col. RFE Mason (
My Dears!
Following my little faiblesse, you will be delighted to learn that I now return, reinvigorated, refreshed, and thoroughly in the pink! Now, where were we? Ah yes! Yum yum!
From Georgina
WAAAAHH!! only a few days til yu guy get home now... but im gonna be working full time (they finally gave me more hours) until we go back to manchester. May and I are thinking about ging back to manchester for a weekend, bank holiday weekend- to paint our rooms n take some furniture etc up. BUT we will do lots of meeting up in tha time! btw, how much jetlag will you have? I dont want to hear that as an excuse when you get back for ageees- you will be forced to socialise!!! hehe!Hows Thailand going? got a tan yet? Love You Both Lots! x x x x
Response: Georgie!! You suck for working full time! Although it is fair enough... I'm gonna come sit outside Lloyds waiting for you! You won't need to force us to socialise, we cant wait to see you! And Jetlag shouldn't be too bad... leave here 11pm, arrive UK around 5am, so hopefully will get a fairly normal nights sleep. Although is about 12 hours... Thailand has been awesome, about to write an update. See you in less that a week! Much love xxxxxxxx
From Amy T
Glad to see your all still having a good time! Loving all the photos btw. Leaving the library on Aug 26th, so I expect to see you soon :D
Response: Amytron! Woooh! You;re leaving the library! Sounds like most people are doing the same... no James, no Shelly... will be strange if we come back to visit! We're home in a week and a half, can't wait to see you guys! Holly xx
From Lt. Col. RFE Mason (
My Dears!
You are both so unutterably delectable, that I scarcely know where to begin! But I think I shall simply have to begin with Lucy's left nipple. Oh dear! No, it's all too, too much. I shall have to retire to my room.
Response: Erm...
From May
Yay, You're in good old KL! Have you been to the Petronas towers yet? In the park surrounding the towers they have guards at night to stop the locals getting down and dirty in the shrubs! I agree that it is very westernised, but they do have a big covered craft market where you can do batik, and look at the pretty things. Hope you're having fun, may xxx
Response: Maaaaaaaaaaaz! Yeah, we went up the Petronas towers on the skybridge, it was really cool! The lift goes so fast that your ears pop! Don't really see the attraction of the scrubs though, its a pretty public area! The only markets we went to were rip off label markets in Chinatown... nothing tasteful, but loads of cheap CDs! We are now in the Cameron Highlands and have just spent the whole day trecking. I'm soooo knackered, and fell over 3 times! We'll write an entry soon. Having a great time here, really looking forward to seeing you again though! Goosey xx
From richard
5mins after i talked to you i got your postcard. hurrah! still, its no bottle of suntory.....maybe i can import it. i need relaxing times damn it. especially after all this hard work of earning mucho moola. that would be $$ $$ you see in my eyes right about now
xo
Response: Haha! I said it was on its way. So there. Will see if we can find suntory in Thailand, but don't get your hopes up! xx
From richard
its been a long time coming but i've fianlly got broadband. oh the joys of living out in the sticks
and its on my laptop as well so lots of late nights.....msn talking....yes.....um.............
you know
xo
Response: I'm so glad that you let us know... :S Sounds like a fun old summer back in Red Lodge! xx
From An Aussie in England
Whats with the constant use of the word Random? Is there a hidden gist of the word that Im just not jisting onto??
What do you mean by it?
Glad your enjoying my homeland... I sure am enjoying yours!
Response: Random is like, well, like. It's just found it's way into most of our sentences... if you're in England, you must have heard people saying it! And 'blatently'. For example, "Blatently he's just like, some random" = "He's nobody we know". I don't know why... explain mate to me! Especially to somebody you don't like! :)
From Ziggy (Lucy's sis)
Hi Lucy! What good news about the empire work experience! Are you exitcited about it? Hope your enjoying singapor. What makes your hostel the best place you've stayed in?
Hi Holly also! xxx
Response: Hi! I haven't actually got any work experiece there Em, Mum was just telling me about it... but I already knew anyway. I will try so hard to get that, but maybe not for a couple of years... Our hostel is the best because it is really funky and modern, and has free breaksfast and free internet!! Yaaay!! But we leave tomorrow, boo... I think the other accomodation on this tour will be a lot more basic :S Hope you're having a fun summer. Lucy xx
From Rowena Adams
Hey guys
Strayed into your page by chance. FYI (and as if you give a toss) the miserable-old-sod message below from one 'Tom Hughes' is, I think, a long quote from Tom Brown's Schooldays - by Thomas hughes. Sounds like someone should get out more. Sounds like *I* should get out more. 'Thank you for your contribution' - nice one - ever thought of a career in politics? Anyway, sounds like youre having a great time, so keep at it.
Response: Hey Rowena! Thanks for the message. Shame on Lucy (the literature student) for not knowing that one! I half wondered if it was a quote from something; who could be bothered to write all that themselves? But there are some bored people out there!
From Chloe
So it's farewell Oz! Uluru looked superb; love the arty photos. In fact, I will offer a small prize to whichever of you takes the artiest (i.e. the most pretentious) pic of the trip. Behave yourselves in Singapore; apparently it has one of the highest number of illegal offences of any country in the world! You can be nabbed for dropping litter, leaving still water lying around in your house or workplace, and failing to lock your bike when not in use. But in a radical move the ban on chewing gum was recently lifted. Not sure if that was wise....it'll lead to anarchy, I tell you!
Response: Lol!! You know how when you can't do something you want to do it even more? That's how I felt about the chewing gum... I think i've had about 1 piece in the last 5 weeks, but I was really resentful that I couldn't chew it for the next 2 days... until you told me that! But i'm still too scared to do it, it could be a trap... I'm gonna forget about the still water too, I just know it!
Yay, prententious photo competition!! I'm sure to win, I didn't do a photography class for nothing... Btw, your gift is a signed print of one of my best images in a special presentation frame. Limited edition. Lucy xx
From Tom
Hi Lucy
I finally got my new computer so i am back online it looks like you are having a great time.
I am living in london all summer as you know.
i am working at river island on oxford street.
take care laters tom
Response: Oh, finally! You must be relieved... is it a good one? Exciting as you are making your summer sound, i'm not really that jealous... have you been doing anything fun or are you too broke?
How are things in London at the moment? It's so weird being out here when all thats going on back home... feel very out of touch, we're basically replying on random strangers for newsflashes. Hope everyones not too freaked out... yourself included... Lucy x
From Kevin
Hey guys! Sorry, just got the address not too long ago from the girls at work. Gees. Looks like you are having fun on your trip. Maybe even a little too much fun... *suspisious glare*
Aren't kangaroos the coolest animals ever? Really good at going really fast, but if they just wanna mosey, they kinda look like dorks.
Anyway, I've found the site now, so have a great rest-of-your-trip!
:D
Response: KEVIN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Hello!!!! How cool to hear from you! Yeah, we really should have given out this address to more people, but we didn't want to make the whole UL staff depressed...
I loved the Kangaroos! We weren't mean enough to chase them though, unlike some people... Hehe... saw one in the wild yesterday on the way to Ayers Rock, how cool!
Hope your having fun in Manuscripts (if you're still there...) say hi to everyone! Heard about your sultan costume, hopefully there are some photos of that floating around... Lucy x
From Tom Hughes
Oh, young England! young England! You who are born into these racing railroad times, when there's a Great Exhibition, or some monster sight, every year; and you can get over a couple of thousand miles of ground for three pound ten, in a five weeks' holiday; why don't you know more of your own birth-places? You're all in the ends of the earth, it seems to me, as soon as you get your necks out of the educational collar, for Midsummer holidays, long vacations, or what not. Going round Ireland, with a return ticket, in a fortnight; dropping your copies of Tennyson on the tops of Swiss mountains; or pulling down the Danube in Oxford racing-boats. And when you get home for a quiet fortnight, you turn the steam off, and lie on your backs in the paternal garden, surrounded by the last batch of books from Mudie's library, and half bored to death. Well, well! I know it has its good side. You all patter French more or less, and perhaps German; you have seen men and cities, no doubt, and have your opinions, such as they are, about schools of painting, high art, and all that; have seen the pictures at Dresden and the Louvre, and know the taste of sour krout. All I say is, you don't know your own lanes and woods and fields. Though you may be chock-full of science, not one in twenty of you knows where to find the wood-sorrel, or bee-orchis, which grow in the next wood, or on the down three miles off, or what the bog-bean and wood-sage are good for. And as for the country legends, the stories of the old gable-ended farm-houses, the place where the last skirmish was fought in the civil wars, where the parish butts stood, where the last highwayman turned to bay, where the last ghost was laid by the parson, they're gone out of date altogether.
Response: Thanks for your input... I do intend to spend some time exploring England, but having taken a year out to work a boring job I kinda wanted to get as far as I could... There'll be plenty of long weekends for that kind of thing later...
From Steph
Hi guys! I'm liking the picture of the funky bird thing. I thought my geese were scary but you've topped me there. And that beach with the really clear water - Hunstanton it ain't!
By the way - for anyone trying to get CEN issues. I'm working there for a few weeks so if anyone needs some back copies I could steal some. (YAY I'm finally getting some where with my journalistic career!)
Keep having an awesome time
XXXXXXXXXXXXX
Response: Hey Steph! Great to hear from you! Yeah, the cassowary was cool, and we lived to tell the tale! Which is always good. Yeah! You have a foot on the journalism career ladder! Thats awesome, hope you're enjoying it. Love Holly xx
From richard the great
i drunk matt turner under the table last night! go me! we were drinking pitchers of woo woo but with 6 extra shots of vodka and 6 extra shots of archers. go us. i felt like death this morning. but had the best time pimpin it up at de niro's. hehehehe all them lovely ladies couldn't get enough of my rather dashing tie/shirt/shoes look. might have to invest in some more shirts and ties ;)
rock and roll daddy-o
xo
Response: That's hardcore dude! Bet it hurt Matts pride to be out-drunk though. We never did the Pimps N Hos night! Should do that when we get back. Were you wearing your pink shirt? That shirt rocks. H xx
From Daisy
Lucy! I'm appalled. You missed the opportunity for some real Henry's Pirate Circus action there!
Response: I know! I'm so ashamed... but I need the rest of my troupe to make a proper attack, me hearty! Yaaar!! xxx P.S. Are you going to South America?