Nineteen Sixty Four (The Blog) is a collection of random thoughts, comments and adventures from my life, opinions are my own and are not to be confused with the thoughts in my head or written elsewhere, trademarks are similarly not mine (except for the ones that ARE mine) and are used within the context of the stories being told. Some of these stories are as I remember them, others may be spiced up to keep the reader engaged… you can choose what to believe or not…
They say "A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step" - my journey started more than 15 years ago and has finally reached its end - I have travelled 3683 kilometres since last Wednesday. Yesterday morning I left Grafton at 7:00am and drove to the Gold...
Hello, my name is John Robinson and I’m Auntie Eva’s nephew. Auntie Eva was always my favourite auntie even though I don’t really know any of my other aunties. We were always very close and we even shared a birthday, although just a few years...
Well today is the day I turn 50, I'm still not really sure how that makes me feel, in my opinion it is one of the last 'milestone birthdays' where you're still working and in good health, generally in the years beyond 50 you start to show signs of slowing down,...
“There is nothing more beautiful than living a simple life in this complex universe!” - Mehmet Murat ildan I had always imagined living simply - from a very young age I had always wanted to build my own home, during my teenage years I spent time...
For more than 30 years I had dreamed of building my own home, well when I say home I mean somewhere to live, somewhere as a base for the adventurer in me to return to and somewhere to sit on a porch and reflect on places I had been. Finally I was in a position to make...