Blue Peter, eat your heart out
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Sven's life in Oz
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Welcome! I'm Sven and this is a guide to my life in Australia. Join me in discovering the do's and don'ts of living down under. Like that box of crap in the bottom of your wardrobe, there's useful stuff in here. Somewhere.
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CATEGORYINDEX
- ▶British Sign Language (2)
- ▼Instruction manual (9)
- ▶Letters home (6)
- ▶Life on a budget (3)
- ▶Living Down Under (47)
- "It's always anticlimactic when you have to put your pants back on."
- #1: Renting in Sydney
- #2: Avoid the Christmas rush
- #3: New Year's Eve in Sydney
- #4: Footwear
- #5: Mardi Gras
- #6: Bugs
- 365 days later
- A good day
- Australia: Day One
- Back in the game: the return of rugby training
- Back in the saddle
- Beware the cycle!
- Bloody hell, we're living in the future.
- Comedy shopping
- Day out: Cockatoo Island
- Definitive proof I am not in Kansas any more.
- Division of labour
- Empty nest syndrome
- Going home and coming home
- Happy 1st AnniVISAry
- Home alone? Fat chance.
- Home sweet home
- I get a pain in the back of the neck
- I'm on the bottom of the world, looking up on creation...
- It's all go, go, go.
- Learn the moves, meet me on the dance floor.
- Letters home: belated Easter wishes
- Managing money: a quandary
- Mardi Gras in toytown
- Oh, how can I resist?
- Photo dump: Christmas in pictures
- Seriously, who am I? Samantha Jones?
- Side effects of antibiotics
- Sleaze Ball
- So, I rang the number...
- Sveny goes to the doctor
- The new new job
- There's an old Klingon proverb...
- Turning 30: better than the alternative.
- Tweet-up 2: this time it's personal
- Vivid Sydney: Luminous
- What a difference a day makes
- What's a flat like you doing in a place like this?
- Who needs to know I am nearly thirty?
- Yes, it is unlikely, but you couldn't make it up.
- You call this superfast?
- ▶MA Creative Writing (1)
- ▶Personal life (30)
- "Is this, like, emotional autism or something?"
- A very public breakdown
- Back in the saddle
- Between the lines
- Bloody hell, we're living in the future.
- Breaking the heart of your home
- Can you every really outgrow costume parties?
- Dating disaster: the first of many, no doubt.
- Dirty thirty
- Double dating
- Duck hunting
- Going home and coming home
- Home alone? Fat chance.
- How to make a supermassive emotional black hole out of molehill
- I'm on the bottom of the world, looking up on creation...
- Looking great and feeling guilty
- Managing money: a quandary
- My life in woodwork
- Oh great, now I'm crying again.
- Oh my word, I'm completely crazy
- Oh, Ronan Keating, you are wiser than your years.
- Oh, we should have seen this coming, but it still wouldn't have made any sense
- Seriously, who am I? Samantha Jones?
- Side effects of antibiotics
- Sven to my friends: Mr Right to you
- The unbearable lightness of being home
- There are 364 other days in the year: lightning doesn't care about the date.
- There's an old Klingon proverb...
- Turning 30: better than the alternative.
- Well, that explains the mystery compulsion to tidy the flat, at least.
- ▶Podcasting (3)
- ▶Pre-Oz (3)
- ▶Published work (3)
- ▶Random notes (51)
- #5: Mardi Gras
- A very public breakdown
- A window on friendships
- Am I boring?
- And where are your manners?
- Anyone for a distraction?
- Be still my beating heart. Well, stiller.
- Between the lines
- Bloody hell, we're living in the future.
- Can you every really outgrow costume parties?
- Congratulations, America!
- Dirty thirty
- Double dating
- Duck hunting
- Eeek, deadlines!
- Eggs have vitamins in them, right?
- Empty nest syndrome
- Gym update
- How to: make your own pom-pons
- I get a pain in the back of the neck
- I know I'm gay and all...
- It's all go, go, go.
- It's not a mental disorder: it's prudence.
- Know me through food
- Learn the moves, meet me on the dance floor.
- Linky lurve
- Mardi Gras in toytown
- My life in woodwork
- My ultimate Christmas gift? Battlestar Galactica and a lobotomy
- Normal service resumes
- Notes on stoicism
- Now you can eat like me, too!
- Oh my word, I'm completely crazy
- Oh, we should have seen this coming, but it still wouldn't have made any sense
- Orangey like a Sunday morning
- Photo dump: Christmas in pictures
- Pink Concert
- Publication notification
- RIPBook
- Side effects of antibiotics
- Single
- Something for the weekend
- Sveny goes to the doctor
- The benefits of an internet alias
- The laziest baker in the world
- Then it is a small price to pay.
- Things Sveny hasn't done
- Turning 30: better than the alternative.
- Tweet-up 2: this time it's personal
- Tweet-up with Milo
- Who needs to know I am nearly thirty?
- ▶Reviews (22)
- ▶Books (6)
- ▶Concerts (1)
- ▶Days out (5)
- ▶Exhibitions (1)
- ▶Films (3)
- ▶Nights out (1)
- ▶Things to do (2)
- ▶TV Shows (3)
- ▶Totally off-topic (1)
- ▶Working Down Under (5)
- ▶Writing (7)
RECENTPOSTS
- There are 364 other days in the year: lightning doesn't care about the date.
- Olafur Eliasson: Take Your Time
- Just call me Richard Kimble
- Back in the game: the return of rugby training
- "Is this, like, emotional autism or something?"
- Podcast review: Al Green at Sydney Festival First Night
- Definitive proof I am not in Kansas any more.
- Sven to my friends: Mr Right to you
SIDEBARASIDES
RECENTCOMMENTS
- Rocketstar: French toast, you are going ot have to give us your recipe and process now, it's being mentioned often. I usually make FT for the girls on Saturdays but
- josh: I'm proud that you can go through V-Day wiffout being a resentful angry prick. I HATE mushy gushy couples on V-Day, but what I hate even more are those peepz
- Evolving: Trying to ignore Valentine's Day is like trying not to think of a pink elephant. Even when you live in a country that doesn't really celebrate it. (I'm SOOOO thankful
- Milo: I haven't been running for absolutely ages. Not since I pulled a muscle in my leg middle of last year. As a consequence I'm about 1 stone heavier than I
- Sven: I think I shall just keep trucking along and see what happens. Good to see I'm not the only one who thinks this way though. I wonder how many other
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- Lula Bites
- Mark Simpson
- Mike Deakin’s Big Yellow Taxi
- Milo & The Year Zero
- PostSecret
- Puntabulous
- Rocketstar’s Thoughts on Life
- Sleepless in Bristol
- Strange Maps
- The Cunning Realist
- This Just In
- YarravillePaul
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23 November 2009 at 3:24 am
Sven ‘live’ and in person. Good to put a voice to a face and mind. Nice cards
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23 November 2009 at 4:02 pm
Cute cardz! Where did you get ur shirt?! I like that even more!
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24 November 2009 at 11:20 am
I aim to please, Rocket. As for the t-shirt Josh, it came from Spank a few years ago. I love it too.