Tue 14/09/1999 13:01

Hello how are you doing

I am currently in Bangkok living up the night life and it is a real eye

opener I can tell you. Rome was s**t but that could have something to do

with the fact that me and stevie got lost. Apart from that we are doing

well. Anyway I have to go now because I have got some serious drinking to

do.

Seeya

Steve

Wed 15/09/1999 12:01

Well I got into Thailand okay and the flight was quite good. I am currently

in bangkok in a place called Khasan Road which is a travvellers sort of

place. We met up with a lad called Rod at the airport and are staying in a

hostle with him. He is from Cardiff and has just finished a Marketing

degree at Manchester and will be staying in Thailand for a month and then is

off to OZ. The hostle isnt bad. For around 2 pound fifty a night we get

our own bathroom and airconditioning. I have left Rod and Steve in bed at

the moment because they are still recovering from last night. I think we

will be staying in Bangkok untill we fly because it is not worth going to

Pataya with only a few days to go. I am also writing this E-mail because I

cannot seem to find anywhere that can sell me a phone card. Guess what we

went to this tailors this morning which was reccommended to us by some bloke

we found this morning. Me and Rod decided to buy a suit which is going to

be made from tailor made Kashmir. It is going to cost me about 120 pounds

which includes its delivery back home. Apparently there are a lot of admin

jobs going on in melbourne at the moment so I can hopefully get one. Last

night me, rod and Steve met up with a Austrian called Thomas and we all went

to a part of Bangkok called Patpong. (ask George about it). It was quite

interesting and cheap costing 1 pound eighty for a litre of carlsberg. The

food isnt bad we found a McDonalds this morning and have decided to only eat

anything vegetarian if I am buying something on the street to limit the

chance of food poisoning. Anyway I had better get back to the hostle and

wake steve and rod up for another night of partying.

seeya

Steve

PS the time difference is 6 hours ahead and it is roughly around 38 degrees

outside and is really humid with a thunder shower lasting an hour every day.

Now for the uncensored version for people other than my family. This place

is absolutley banging. Thomas led us to this strip bar (yes Natalie he did

lead us) and we almost had a fight with the management for ripping us off by

nearly 6 pounds for a bottle of beer. However no one came for their calls

of help so we got away with paying the proper price. After that we watched

t6he Arsenal match in a bar on the street we a staying on untill around half

three in the morning. That means that I have only had around three hours

sleep in the last three days. However I have no problems staying awake due

to the local medicine Ha Ha. There are good and bad areas of Bangkok we

have discovered and ay the moment we are staying in most of the good areas

which is excellant. The people here are really friendly if they are not

trying to sell something and there are E-Mail cafes everywhere on this

street however e mail time is just about as expensive as at home. Anyway we

are going to see this smart geezer called Mike who we met this morning in a

bar called gullivers in two hours time so there is some hard drinking to do.

This lad has travelled through India and is staying in thailand for six

months before going to OZ. Any way time to go.

Keep care and dont let the man keep you down. Say hi to anyone who I cannot

get in touch with e mail and if there are people who I can get in touch with

e mail tell them to get in touch with me so that I can e mail them back.

Anyway bye bye

Steve

Sat 18/09/1999 14:10

Well still in Bangkok and still getting recked every night. We leaaave

tomorrow and fly to Melbourne. If anyone is going out tonight Ill meet you

at Gulivers bar at the end of the road. But be prepared it is nice AND HOT

still in this country. Well bye bye

Tue 21/09/1999 12:57

Hello hows it going

I amm in melbourne at the moment but not for long because it is f*****g

freeezing. Well I think I am moving up north to cairns because it is most

probably hot and lots of SEX.this part is from Nick. Right I am too pissrd

to write any more so I wilol lopve you and leave you.

bye bye

steve

Sun 26/09/1999 10:04

Hello everybody In England.

I am currently in Cairns which took 52 hours on a bus frokm Melbourne. It

seems to be fairly smart we are going to do a bugee jump soon so hopefully I

will live through this. The whether is fairly decent but I will have to go

now because I have serious drinking to do! I will send you an e-mail soon

Love

Steve

Mon 27/09/1999 11:05

Fri 01/10/1999 10:51

Well after having a very dodgy stomache I know have sunburn all over my

body. Did a bungee jump yesterday (well three exactly and it was absolutly

smart. gotta go because I need a p**s (oh I will keep out of dans way if he

has turned gay)

Steve

Sat 09/10/1999 09:58

Dear all

this will have to be a short e mail because the computer i am on is

absolutely s**t and is slow as f**k. I am basically in a small town called

innesfail which is around 100 ks south of cairns. I have got a job working

on a banana farm which is very hard work!!!! I have to get up at 5:30 in

the morning monday to friday and then work in the red hot sun which really

knackers you up. The hostle I am staying in is s**t but i am starting to

get used to it (especially the mixed dorms) The rest of the peoplke here

are either dutch or english and are all top people so it is quite good

crack. I plan to save some money here so I might be around for around a

month but who knows. It is also like being on detox because after getting

wrecked every night of the week for the pst two months I had three days

without a drink since i was working early in the morning. I did get wrecked

yesterday though and plan to watch the england match tonight which is on at

2 in the morning in this bar spot so I will have my england flag on which I

wiull most probably get beat up for. We have discovered that the locals

here hate backpackers so we always go out in large groups to minimise the

risk of getting batered. Anyway have to go so If i dont send you an email

in the next few weeks it will be because i am too f****d!

Take care

Love steve

Fri 15/10/1999 09:50

Hello everyone

Well my second week of banana picking is over and I am actually enjoying the

job now. My boss is cool and today when he brought me back to the hostle we

were having a few pipes which got me really f****d. I am also making good

friends with a guy called Jason who worked at the stpock exchange in London.

We have arranged that when we both get back he is going to take me to the

Ministry of Sound cool or what!!!!

Well Dan have you stopped being gay yet?

Pete why havnt you pulled yet are you always too p****d that you get brewers

droop!

cROUCH why do you always seem to be asleep?

Helen I am alive and kicking and am looking forward to a night out in a

place called Innesfail where I am currently working.

Matt good to know you are still into psychodelic 70s music

Oly I hope you are still saving these emails because I cant be arsed to

write a diary

If I have forgotten anyone oh yes

Rod if you are planning on coming north then send me an email innesfail isnt

a bad place once you get used to it si if you fancy anywork yiou know where

to come

If I have forgotten anyone it is because I am too wrecked after qa hard week

at the banana fields

Take care and dont catch aids

Steve

Sun 17/10/1999 09:11

Dear everyone

Well I am actually enjoying myself quite a lot now in Innesfail and have

made hoards of friends. Unfortunately they keep moving on to other areas

which means that you cannot really be good friends with them. This weekend

we went out on the piss on Friday to a pub then a club and then watched

England woop tonga in the worldcup. Yestrday a group of us went to the

Innesfail races which we missed because we arrived to late so instead we got

ratted and then Me and this lass called Marie (whose welsh) got told off for

having a traffic cone on our heads by a copper.

Anyway tonight I will go to bed early since I have to go to work in the

morning. i have been told that my job is mine for until Christmas so I will

stay here for at least another month

Take care and have fun

Steve

Thu 21/10/1999 08:52

dear everyone

I am now on my own because I have chosen to carry on working as the others

have left. I am moving to a place nearer to the farm I am working on. I am

going to live with two guys I work withy one is from London the other is

from Amsterdam cool or what!!!. Anyway time is running out can anyone get

me dans email address cos I have lost it

Take care

your one and only stud

Fri 05/11/1999 07:13

Hello everyone in email land

Just to let you know that I am still alive and the only reason I have not

returned any emails is because of me living 20 minutes by car away from the

nearest email spot. I was also ill with a throat infection which was very

painfull!!!

Anyway must dash my one and only car ride for the week will be leqaving soon

and I still have the weekly shopping to do.

Everyone take care and I promise to give a proper lowdown on everything

going on in rainy innisfail when I can

Steve aka Stud aka Studley aka sterve aka ste aka studles

Wed 01/12/1999 01:12

Hello people in Sunny UK

Thanks for the E-mails as you may or may not of heard I am at the Airlie

Beach hospital recovering from a snake bite to my testicles. Oohh it were

painful. Of course not who the hell started spreding this, over the past

two days I have received around six emails asking if I was alright or if I

had died. I wouldnt know how to answer the email if I was dead but thanks

for your concern anyway. I have so far seen two snakes, one was a boa

constrictor which I held at a crocodile farm, the other was at the caravan

site at Cowley. We found that one in the shower and was not sure if it was

poisonous or not so kind of made it move out while an Aussie bloke picked it

up and started batting its head on a post. He said he wasnt sure if it was

poisonous or not so he didnt take any chances. That was kind of cool (Steve

Irwin eat your heart out) Steveie has been the closest to getting bitten

when he saw a Taipan snake around two metres from him. Thats one of the

most poisonous snakes in the world but thankfully for him it went the other

way so it couldnt have been that hungary. So only 25 days to go until

Christmas, well somehow I dont think Santa will come this far and leave a

heap of presents on the end of my bed. Airlie is excellant with lots of

pubs and nightclubs. Theres also lots of gash around but I have yet to

sample any of the Airlie Pie. Anyway must dash so take care and keep

partying

Steve

PS if anyone gets Bellys email can they please send it to me, can someone

also get me Pauls, he did write to me but I accidentally wiped his email

off before I could save the address

PPS I know I am going to get the piss taken out of me when you see the bungy

jump vid but bear in mind that I was the first one out of the four of us to

jump and doing it backwards is f*****g scary!!!!

Tue 07/12/1999 02:02

Hello lads and lasses

Well well not long till xmas and it doesnt feel christmas at all with

temperatures at 30 degreees constantly. Well Airlie beach was absolutely

excellant but unfortunately I have just about spent all of the money I saved

at work. I am currently in a place called Bunderberg which makes the famous

bunderberg rum and we are going to visit the distillary. It looks as though

I am going to be in Sydney for the millenium. A mate I met in Thailand says

he can find us somewhere to stay. It should also be a little reunion with

just about everyone I have met so far on this trip being there which should

be cool. Anyway hows tricks

Paul I have your e mail at last. I heard about the whole paedophile thing

ha ha ha I know it might be old by now but I havnt had chance to hassle you.

Dunny I am glad that Scotland are higher than us because it means that there

is no way you will qualify for the World cup ha ha ha so who has the last

laugh now

Owen thank you for not sending me anymore rubbish but the occaisional hello

would be nice

Hannah and dunny and well everyone else stop sending me this chain letter

s**t. I have so far forwarded none of them because they are a waste of

bloody space. Bad luck I think not, unless you think lying on the beach in

really really nice weather with the bars only fifty yards away and really

nice women everywhere bad luck, let this be a lesson to you all.

If anyone is having a christmas or millenium bash anywhere then tell me when

and I might ring because calls are really cheap.

Finally can someone firebomb Michael Knightons car because I am sick of

being depressed by carlisles miserable performance.

Oh yes by the way while at Airlie beach I visited the Whitsunday islands and

stayed on Whitehaven beach which is slightly better than the Whitehaven back

home. There was also wigton Island, Brampton Island and Carlisle Island.

Weird or what

Lots of love and take care Steve

Thu 09/12/1999 08:05

Right I have decided to send this email to everyone in my address book

because I cant be arsed to write seperate ones to different people so if

some of this does not seem relevant then tough you will have to read it

anyway. Anyway I am now at Hervey Bay which is around 2 hours south of

Bunderberg. Financial Situation - S**t hit Fan - Reason basically being me

and drinking rather excessivly which is actually very hard not to do when

you keep meeting people all of the time. Anyway you know I told some of you

I was hoping to come back with around 2 grand, well lets just say that there

is more chance of the pope wearing a condom!!! I have officislly spent all

of the money I saved from working on bananas which has taken me just under

two weeks. This now means that I am again getting money from my bank

account which means I will be doing this for another month since there is no

way I can get a job between now and the millenium. Anyway Hows things in

everyones part of the world. I am going on a three day four wheel drive

trek on Fraser Island tomorrow with Stevie which should be smart. There are

eight of us going all together, three french a swiss bird and four english

people. Male to female ratio = 1:1 so it should be quite good. After this

we will most probably be down at Noosa quick footing it towards Sydney. Oh

well what else can I ramble on about that will most probably send you to

sleep. oh yes I sent a bunch of postcards and stuff out back home, dont

know why really because by the time they get back you would already know

what I had got up to so it was a completely pointless excercise really. The

distillary tour proved to be a bit of a let down, they only let us have one

shot of rum which I thought was a bit tight of them, so much for a free

session. Anyway here are a few personal messages from our sponsors

Rachael and John - we still have the pumpkin (TO EVERYONE WHO DOES NOT KNOW

WE HAVE A TIN OF PUMPKIN AS A MASCOT CALLED DAVE) TO CAT, MARIE AND CLARE

THIS IS NAMED AFTER DAVE FROM THE HOSTLE. I think stevie is taking it a bit

far though he keeps taking it sunbathing and gives it suncream to wear. We

should be coming into Byron within the next two weeks so if you are still

around then tell us where we can meet you. If you have gone to Sydney do

the same thing

CAT - Sorry to hear about the hospital thing, great to hear from you but if

you see Nick or dan tell them to get in contact with me because I would like

to meet up with them if they are still in Sydney

Nick - you heard get in touch

Dan you have definitely heard so get in touch

Jason and Ian well i am missing our friday nights in the van but no doubt

bali will be excellant, have a great time as I am sure you will

Neil - So you are now a cleaner well Id do a lot worse for a few free

bottles of beer, after cairns tell us what your plans are so that if you are

in Sydney then we can have another session (but remember to fetch a bloody

condom you studmuffin)

Clare and Marie I dont have a clue where any of you are but send us a line

and if you are in Sydney or anywhere then lets meet up for a session.

James same goes for you

Oly I want you to set up a chain letter with the title stop sending f*****g

chain letters, just think of the good it will do to man kind.

Nats good to hear from you and I will try to ring up on the 31st bearing in

mind that we celebrate ten hours before you do. I was thinking lets start

the session at the same time Ill start 7 pm you can start 9 am and see which

one can actually reach 12 midnight! look after your sister because i know

what shes like after a few shandys in her

Katherine - Where are you? same goes for you but look after your sister

because I know what shes like after shes had a few ginger beers!

To the Gash and gaffaw gang well what can I say

er well what can I say

have a good christmas and new year and I know you will love my bungy video

but unfortunately I have told mum not to let you near a twenty metre radius

of the house

To anyone else Hello

To everyone I will no doubt be in touch before hand but have a wicked

christmas and new year and take care

Lots of love

Steve, stud, sterve, b*****d, a*s hole, get off the couch, have you had

enough, put that chair down, and my personal favourite what are you doing to

that chinchilla!

Sun 12/12/1999 07:52

Alright everyone out there

Well Frazer Island was absolutely brilliant!!! Its the bigest sand island

in the world and is full of freshwater lakes with water you can drink when

you are swimming! It also had some f*****g beautiful views which I managed

to take a few pictures of until my camera packed in. Anyway Syeve had

another so I used his. The group I was in was also really good. There was

eight of us in this four wheel drive. Me and steve, these two english

lasses a swiss female, a mad french man and a french couple. We all hit it

off really well and I now love french people after meeting David this french

dude who is just mad all of the time!! He lives in Paris as well which

could work out to be a future bonus.

I tried for romance with the swiss one first of all (who was really fit) but

I could tell david was making a better impression so left him to it. I then

moved onto a lass from Stafford who was also not to bad. we got on really

well and at first got on really well, she said she was 23 and after a few

beers got to start kissing until she pulled away and said that she was

actually 29!! I have discovered that travelling when 18 has its downfalls

mainly that I have yet to meet another 18 year old traveller and all of the

women are at least 3 years older!!! Oh well I still had a really nice time.

Anyway I am off to Noosa in two days time and have got a last party with the

Frazer island gang before everyone makes their own way, Not too bad though

this Swiss lass is travelling down to Noosa at the same time.

Sydney is beginning to look bleak. All of the emails I have received so far

from people in Sydney are basically that there is b****r all accomodation

and that no one has a place where we can stay. Any way I will write soon

Take care Steve

Wed 15/12/1999 06:38

hello everyone, cant be a***d to write anymore

Love steve

Fri 17/12/1999 09:52

Hello to everyone

Well just like Jane I couldnt be a***d to send different emails out either

so you can just have one and lump it! Well I am now in Surfers paradise

where I have met up with all of the Frazer island crew apart from the two

other english women (one of them being Jane if none of you know what this is

about). Weather has turned a bit s****y really but we went to the wet and

wild park today which was quite good fun and tomorrow I do a skydive!!!!!

$189 it will cost and I am doing it with this french dude called Frank, So

think of us Jane and Helen as you know what his driving was like!! anyway

this is not some stupid suicide attempt if any of you are wondering

especially after my bungy jump. Still dont know what I am doing for the

millenium or xmas we should have a better idea by next week.

Nick where are you staying in Sydney this precise moment in time and what

job have you got because it must pay well. I have not been bitten by a

snake and you must be the eigth person who has asked so tell your mum i am

fine and well.

Dan T good to hear from you at last, were you out of your head when you

wrote that email or what?

Pete good to hear that you are still being pete like and put a good word in

for me (you know thwe old ive got a mate travelling the world thing) that

should build a decent foundation for me to cum from Ha ha get it.

Cam thanks a lot for the funky card as this year I doubt that I will receive

that many!

To the Gash gang I take it you have most probably left along with everyone

else so why I am writing this I dont know

Neil you lucky b*****d! What a f*****g easy job you have driving a bus once

every hour. Are you still shagging your way around Airlie beach, I take it

you might try some of the staff now then eh.

To rachael and John Steve will phone up tomorrow if you read this tonight.

carla and donna have a excellent xmas and new year and have around 20 drinks

(each) on me mind you dont expect any payment

Rod we will pop in to see you when we are eventually down in Sydney, this

could be within a week or a month.

To the innisfail fruit picking corporation have you managed to consume a

banana yet? I havnt actually but thats because I cant be arsed to buy one,

imagine going into a shop and asking for one banana and then eating in front

of him as he sits there with his cushy job as we had to pick these bloody

things, do you now what I would do I would say Oi shop owner no, you give me

a banana and I will give it back where the sun doesnt shine!!!

Oh dear I need calming down now, better be off

Lots of love

Steve (AND STEVIE)

Sat 18/12/1999 04:28

Hello everyone

Well Surfers paradise is now pissing down with rain which means that my

skydive had to be cancelled. Instead I am off to see toystory 2 with

mirijam (the Swiss lass) and the french couple making it an international

cinema going campaign. I should know what I am doing for the millenium

within fifteen minutes as I am phoning a mate up in sydney to see if he has

any space left in his apartment, if not then it looks as though we will have

to stay here which wouldnt be too bad apart from not being able to spend

xmas and new year with all of the mates I have met along the way. Anyway

there phone was engaged and that is why I am e mailing to you all.

Well I take it that all you uni goers will be off now so I guess it will be

party time in the penrith region!Anyway must dash as I have to see a man

about a dog and some accomodation for two weeks!

Take care

Love steve

PS Helen here is a personal message for you and as you are the only one to

get one in this email I hope it makes your Xmas. Say Hi to everyone at the

Herdy werdy and I will be ringing on new years eve if I have not passed out

or anything.

Thu 23/12/1999 04:31

Alright everybody

well just a quick note to say that I am in sydney without a passport because

I have lost it! half a filling has come out but my tooth hasnt started to

ache yet! anyway my accomodation has kind of gone a bit wayward with

finding out that 7 other people are staying at my mates apartment as well.

They evidently have been getting lots of complaints from the neighbours so

me and steve need to find somewere rather sharpish! Four of us are hoping

to get a place together after the millenium but until then we need to get a

place. so today we have been busy looking for places but to no avail anyway

we are still trying, we are going to spend xmas day on bondi beach where

lots of djs are going to be playing, for new years eve we are going to spend

it at this olympic stadium spot where tickets were going for $150 but it

lasts from 10pm to 10am! anyway must dash

have a brill xmas and a really good new year

take care

love steve

Thu 20/01/2000 03:19

Right then some of you out there have not heard from me for a while and

after emailing a lot of people already I will give you a quick summary of

what has been going on and send more individual emails later on! Sorry

about this but you know what a lazy b*****d I can be!

After getting down to Sydney we stayed at a mates apartment in an outer

suburb called Marrickville just outside sydney for free which wasnt bad as

hostel prices had gone up to around $50 a night! We spent xmas day on Bondi

which was brill as the sun was shining and there were lots of dance events

going on!

New years eve was spent at an event called NY2K which was at Olympic park

which is the main area of the olympics. it went on from 10 at night to 10

in the morning needless to say that I took a little something to keep us

going all the way through just like everyone else there did. You could tell

this was in australia because you could get to the front of the dance stages

easily with only the english people going there and dancing off their tits!

After this we went back to the apartment and watched the fire works go off

in london which made us a bit homesick but that soon made way to some much

needed sleep!

After this me and stevie found somewhere to live with an indionisian family.

You see marrickville is full of lebanese and chinise people but the room

is $60 a week but has a four year old who has started to seriously piss me

off ( remind me to never have kids!)

I have found a job working at a local supermarket called Banana Joes. Its

is very mind numbing but the work is really easy so even though it is s**t

and no one else there speaks English it still pays me money!

There is one pub in Marrickville which is full of what people would call

Australians and one of our mates from the apartment we were staying at works

there so that is our local pub and now the locals have started to talk to us

and we even had a few sessions at some of there houses. i managed to puke

for the first time last week at this lasses house after going on a session

from 6 at night to 6 in the morning! there were 9 of us that went back to

her spot to finish the session off by smoking some of her weed, however once

we got there there was only two of us who wanted to smoke some so needless

to say me and this other english guy called chris managed to finish off a

tweenty bag of weed. I think it was this that finally made me puke in this

womans back garden!

We went to the SCG yesterday to watch the Australian v Pakistan one dayer

which was smart! It was a hell of a game with McGrath getting hit 61 runs

off 5 overs which was fun to watch. We also saw Richie Benau which made my

day but we didnt manage to speak to him

The weather has got scorching with what the australians call there summer.

It is passing out weather and I cant wait to feel cold again

Anyway as i said before I will give each of you better e mails later on but

untill then take care and have fun

love stevei

Tue 25/01/2000 04:32

Right then are you lot back at Uni or are you still off f*****g around the

millenium capital of the world Penrith. If you are back then drop us a line

cos you could win a case of VB lager for the 20th caller!!!!! Work has got

decidely s*****r cos it has got decidedly harder. I am in the bloody stock

room all the time now lugging heavy f*****g boxes of anything from one

pallet to another pallet for some unknown reason. At least when I was shelf

stacking I could doss about but know I have to actually work! Anyway it

looks as though me and stevie will be splitting up. He still hasnt found

any work even though it is easy to find in Sydney. You see at the moment

there are hundreds of labouring jobs going on but he doesnt want to do that.

He also doesnt want to wash up or basically do any work so he says he is

going a bit further south to do some more fruit picking which in my mind is

the s******t of the lot. Anyway he says that he is going to stay in Oz for

the full duration which means Ill be let loose in Thailand on my own with

all of them mucky women (oh dear I wonder what Ill do) I have secured a job

back home working for my old head chef for the summer which is a bit of a

bonus so I am doing all right for myself. I have cut down dramatically on

my drinking and smoking of iffy substances too since I have to get up at

6.30 in the morning and come back at around 7-8 at night so9 I am pretty

f****d all the time. This is my first day off after a week and to stay in

bed until around 12 midday was heaven. It does mean that I do save a lot of

money and I reckon that if I stay here for another two months and go on a

hard save then I should have enough money to tour the rest of OZ and

thailand. I still have to change my ticket but I still havnt got my

replacement passport back which is a bit worrying. Any way Ill write again

when I get the chance. I have just noticed that I have a loud german f****r

right next to me who is starting to f**k me off

<<<<<<<<<< w****r

Anyway I will see you

Take care

Love steve

Sat 05/02/2000 05:39

right then f**kwitts!

Where have all the emails gone. Dont tell me that you are too busy studying

because I wont belive you. Well Ive just been working all of the time here

in sydney and making some serious cash! Last week I worked 65 hours and got

$700 which wasnt bad and this week I worked 55 hours so should get around

$600. This money I need desperately because after my last phone call back

home i discovered I had only 20 pounds left in my bank account back home

which was a bit of a nasty suprise. I have decided that this is going to be

the last job I have before I move back home so basically i need enough money

to travel down to melbourne and to Aires Rock, for Thailand and for my van

insurance back home. My drinking has taken a serious nosedive due to my

strict saving policy so I am only on ten schooners and half a bottle of Jack

daniels a night. no only joking but I have cut down quite drastically and

went 4 days without any alcohol at all!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Anyway stevie is leaving me tomorrow because he is going down to Victoria to

start Grape picking. Whether that is it until we return home I dont know

but I dont really mind because I have kind of got used to doing things on my

own now (No Paul not that kind of thing) Anyway I have made hoards of

friends here so Ill still be able to party away! Anyway must dash as the

heat here is f*****g cooking my insides out so Ill have to love yolu and

leave you all. write back soon please!!!

Love steve

Sat 12/02/2000 06:00

Right then w*****s!

For some reason during the last week I have endured backlash for my emailing

techniques of writing massive ones with personal individual messages. Well

I am sorry but f**k you all you are going to get even longer ones from now

on and I will do this by writing even more s**t than I normally do. I am

writing this in a part of Sydney called Kings cross which is the Soho of

Sydney, it is full of strip clubs (which I havnt been in yet) and skanky

looking prossies (which I will never go in) It is also raining which makes

quite a pleasant change from the 35 degree heat which we normally get.

Well I have been left on my own devices now as stevie has left Sydney to

work on a fruit picking farm which makes no sense at all. Sydney is the

easiest place to find work especially labouring but he said he did nmot want

to do that. He could have then fone to an employment agency and then get a

job which would get him $600 with around $150 knocked off for the agency

fees each week but he hated the idea of giving an agency money. So instead

he has moved down to Victoria grapepicking which will mean hard sweaty work

for only around $350 a week. A bit like a prostitute really! Work has got

even s*****r know and theres a chance it could even get to new levels of

s**ttiness. The week started alright as I have know made quite a few

friends in the grocery department and now know what to do. Then this old

geezer who seems to think Im a hard worker and who is the owners father and

is lebanese said to me on wednesday "you steve hard worker steve you stay

steve and we look after you you know good money steve good money we look

after you" to this I replied as I normally do to what ever the old fart
asks

"yeah yeah cheers but im only going to be here for around two months at the

most" to this he said " yes steve you work full time good money and we
look

after you steve banana joe look after you" to this I thought he was
starting

to get seedy! I replied "yeah cheers but I have to go home to engaland Im a

backpacker you see and Ill only be in Marrickville for another two months at

the most" to this he said " no steve you work full time hard worker
you

steve we take care of you full time in the FRUIT AND VEG SECTION"

Definition of fruit and veg section ( part of the store full of lebanese men

who only half speak english and walk around as if they have an lebanese

cucumber stuck up their arse!

To this my manager from grocery walks in overhears this about fruit and veg

and then world war three broke out between the two because both sections are

short staffed and both need at least another two people.

After this my manager told me about full time. You see I am on casual wages

at the moment which are really good this is why they want to put on full

time which means more hours for less money! The actual messiah of banana

joe hasnt talked to me yet about this full time thing but my manager says

that he definitely wont keep me on casual pay considering the ammount of

hours I am doing a week. So now I dont know what is happening! Pretty much

the same as the rest of my time away. Iam however now in the fruit and veg

section which is like being a foreign diplomat as I have to contend with all

these lebanese tossers with an attitude the size of a rather large cucumber

pretty similar to the one up their a****s.

home life is boring as hell after stevie has left and taken the personal

sterio. The four year old girl has started school so I hardley see her now

(yeeeeesssss) Unfortunately this menas that the only thing left to do is

smoke myself to oblivion at night even though I am not allowed to smoke in

the house. So I have bought myelf ten cans of air freshner and have the

window open all the time to try and get rid of the smell!

I still go out around twice a week with the remaining few people who are

still in Marrickville from Innisfail. They are mad so I am in similar

company!

Anyway I will start writing personal messages to everyone know

Everyone - nice to get your emails can only get to a computer around one a

week good to hear you are having a good time at ........... and good to hear

you are still getting wrecked pretty much all of the time.

Pete - that was rather a funny email you sent me and I couldnt help but

laugh which was rather embarrassing as I am in the middle of an internet

cafe and everybody stared at me. Good to hear that the gauffaur gang are up

to the usual tricks and keep it up

right then hope you are now bored to death and like this especially long

email

bye bye and stay away from cucumbers especially lebanese as you never know

where they have been!

tkae care love steve