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Posted: 21st Apr 2005
oh wow... cause germany and italy are so easy to mix up!!

I hope you are smiling and happy.. I sent a reply to your txt message.. I wonder if you and your princess got it?

TAJ "boat mummy." VALURA "yes sweetie you went on a boat, was daddy there with you?" TAJ "no, but monkey on boat" VALURA "well then sweetie, Daddy WAS there with you"

Posted: 28th Apr 2005
Hey PK

Bags, borders and all that fun. Isn't travelling great
I am gonna miss ya in August, I'm back on Sept 2nd, but I'm sure I'll get a chance to see ya again one day.


'Till then

Some things you have to see to believe, but
Some things you have to believe in to see.

Posted: 3rd May 2005
valura
you must remeber dont mention the war
shhhhhhhhh

hey how do i arcle force yself to italy
surly it would be cheaper then a plane ticket??

"Life should NOT be a journey to the grave arriving safely in an attractive and well preserved body, but rather to skid in sideways, champagne in one hand, strawberries in the other, body thoroughly used up, and screaming "WOO-HOO What a ride!"

Posted: 10th May 2005
sorry to all but my internet has stopped to fuction..
so i can read the messages for Pk at my school but not every days..
in Italy its all ok!!the weather now is bad :[censored] off:
now im waiting the bus for Camaiore and im in an internet point!!
pk is good..and i've learned with 3 balls a lot of moves..
i hope that all its ok for you all..
(if someone wants to send a message to pk my number is +393485212547)
kisses and hugs for all
SeRe & Pk

*^*EuPhoRiC*^*PaRaNoiC*^*PeReNiaLLy SaD*^*aSLeeP*^* [juliet when we made love you used to cry, now i kiss you through the bars of a rhyme]

Posted: 10th May 2005

-James

"How do you know if you're happy or sad without a mask? Or angry? Or ready for dessert?"

Posted: 4th Jun 2005
Hey guys….
Sorry if I have not been in touch with any of you in a while… I have been taking things easy for a while.
It is now my 4th week here in Italy, I have not yet found a job here but that is not an immediate concern, however my money will not last much longer with out work.
Well going back some weeks now, the journey to London with my dad…. Sitting in the car thinking many thoughts about what I was about to do that day…. I was feeling very sick at the time, I didn’t want to leave. My mom was in tears when I left the house that morning, she was worried for me, though really I am not that far away, It has been so long since I lived with my parents, it was strange to spend my last week in England how I did all that time ago…. My dad’s cooking! my moms moaning about my brother … being a family.
In the car I almost coughed to my dad to turn around and take me back to Sheffield.
Really after the last two weeks that I spent in England I really missed Sheffield, all of my friends and Sarah too… but I knew that I had to carry on and do this, see it through at least.
Well having hit London Central it was a mission to try and find Waterloo Station, but eventually we did and just in time too as I almost missed the check in for my train.
It was a 3 hour journey to Paris Nord station… the journey itself was pretty dull, but comfy enough, I was sitting with a beautiful French girl for the entire journey, her English was pretty good too, but she didn’t say much, in fact slept for half of the journey.
When I arrived at Paris Nord I was met by my friend Oliver, my guide and savior …. Mio Dio… how heavy was my luggage!!! Struth!! I felt so sorry for him volunteering to help me. So we went off to the Metro and stop some where in Paris for a beer and a juggle near the River just across from Notre Dame and in the distance the Eiffel Tower.
So onwards with the luggage to Paris Bercy Station where I was to catch the over night express to Firenze.
It is now 7.10pm and I have 13 hours ahead of me for this train ride… mio dio! Why did I do this!.
I said my goodbye to Oliver and thank you too! .. And I went to find my couchette on the train.
The train was really full there were a lot of people traveling this route. In my couchette were a lovely French lady… she spoke no English what so ever, there was another lady a little younger than the other she spoke in French to me and the other lady so at first I assumed that she was also French until she received a phone call and she was actually American. But she lived in France and worked as an artist, she was going to Bologna for a meeting. And the final person we all had the un-fortunate pleasure of being in confined space with an Italian man… sitting there swigging some cheap Whiskey right out of the bottle. The two ladies were laughing at him for quite some time; He was a proper drunk bag.
I had a really nice talk with the American lady, she was really nice, she was translating into French for the other lady too which was nice… the drunk must have spent about 1 hour max in the couchette… he was at the end of the carriage all night drinking his whiskey and smoking nasty cigarettes where he shouldn’t have been.
It was strange I have never been through a border on a train before so I did not know what the system was going to be for passport control, was really simple at Waterloo it was just like an airport. But this train was different!! The conductor came around and took our passports and tickets apparently we will get them back when we each reach or destination stations… this worried me. There was a conductor for each carriage I think. He had a little room at the end of our carriage.
By 9.30pm I was feeling pretty tired, I had been traveling for 11 hours already and had another 11 and a half to go so I decided to try and sleep, the two ladies decided to sort out the beds and I couldn’t be bother and just slept in a heap in the corner amongst my suitcases that there was NO ROOM FOR!! My god they failed to put luggage space on the design plans for this train… seriously.
So 3am I was being poked on the head, I woke to see the Polizia! nice wake up call… in his hand was my ticket and my passport… In my passport I have my photo from when I had my dreadlocks, so he decided that he wanted me to empty my luggage! .. He was being serious too! Geeezuuuss! What an [censored] this guy was… but that still was not good enough, he sent for the dogs… so in-came this big German Shepard. Sniffing all of my things... but I’m a good boy... I’m not in the drug trafficking game so they just wasted 45 minutes for nothing… there is seriously enough drugs in Italy already… trust me…
So the destination is Firenze, city of the GOLD CHURCHES. This is exactly why I hate religion… wealth and status hungry ass holes… they have this huge church, gold doors the lot! So really Bill Gates, your not the wealthiest in the world… the CHURCH is!
It is now just after 9am… I arrive in Firenze at last, I have now one more train to catch, but my carriage is to the rear of the train and there is a long walk with my luggage to the other platform… every one could see how much I was struggling with my suitcases, there was a man walking towards me with a trolley, and this woman.. Cheeky bitch asked him for it and he gave it to her… she had a bag the same size as my hand luggage!!... How pissed off was I? !!!!. So onwards muttering under my breath at her, I went to get my ticket to Viareggio where I was to meet with Rita… a journey of an hour and a quarter [ish]… a pretty dull journey but the trackside graffiti is so much better here than in Firenze and Bologna. Pisa has some good artists too… but I was walking the streets of Firenze last week and saw a friends tag on a lamp post, Solo One from my home town. Strange, was written in the exact same style too!. So it must have been one of his.
Any way, I had a 10 minute wait for Rita to arrive in Viareggio and luckily my train arrived in the station on platform one so I had only to walk 50 yards to the front doors.
I love Viareggio, It has a beach that is around 4km but there is a boat yard too… there is a much better beach in Lido Di Camaiore but there is nothing there to be honest, all of the good bars and restaurants are in Viareggio.
It felt good to arrive here for a change having slept through the night apart from the intrusion of the old bill.
Rita speaks no English what so ever and I was still feeling tired and sore from Paris, conversation was not happening today apart from. “Vorrai una caffé GRANDE! Per favore.”.
Rita is the mother of Serena, my little Italian girl. I mean little too she only 2 inch taller than my mom making her a tiny 5 foot tall.
Second night in Italy and I’m off to meet with Andy [PoiBox from homeofpoi.com] in Pisa, such a nice guy to have met and also Olivier and the girls too, I don’t remember their names now. After we had departed Company they were continuing their drive from Germany to Roma, so they were going to meet with Tom [Nix?] there the following morning.

Well week one…. Plan …. Do nothing! ... I did exactly that!

Week two… same! … Do nothing!

I’m sick of being worked to death and looking like [censored] so I’m doing things differently from now on.
Finally my PC turned up after taking a detour via Germany for some reason?? Took them only 10 days to get it here and when I put my hard drive back in it… its [censored]! .. “Nice”. So off to PCpiü in Viareggio for a new Main board… so a 3rd of my living expense’s for the month has now gone to repair my PC and on returning home with a new one installed in find that also my HDD fried and I lost all of my photographs and work of the past 4 years, what a disaster, I’m really gutted about this, some is retrievable from my server but all my graphic artwork I have made… gone for ever.
So also Serena’s PC dies too this week, but I managed to get that fixed myself, but we have lost all internet access for some reason, it doesn’t want to work any more but we have not bothered to call them to sort it yet… to be honest I have not been that bothered about being online other than to get my work back from my server.
And to top every thing off, my phone decided to die too! ... so now I have nobodies phone numbers any more… and I lost my back up of them on my HDD! ….
Week3. The Dutch students arrive.
I was looking forward to meeting them, They were coming for the cinema festival in Viareggio and also for the School that Serena goes to in Lucca. Lucca is a city 1 hours drive from here, and is a very beautiful and historic city… but nothing what so ever to do there… but home to some good jugglers.
So the first outing with the Dutch people was to Firenze…. Been here before! .. I was forced on a guided tour of the city … I was made to go in the Italian speaking group and all of the Dutch people went in the English speaking group… so I understood nothing other than how rich the church is… kind-a sucks that… why did we not eat breakfast that day either… I was starving all day and every one was moaning about the tour.
By the end of the week every one was so glad to see the back of the Dutch people… they were a nightmare beyond belief… believe me you don’t want to know!, 3 of the girls disappeared and ended up in a hotel room with 3 Mexican guys so that kind-a gives you the picture… and the Dutch people were 16.. Should have been monitored by their school… thankfully the Italian people are much older and sensible… and jugglers too so we just juggled all week to annoy them. But Emily was nice she was the girl that stayed with us for the week… she was pretty sensible.
Their last night I cooked for us all, 14 people… 3 veggies… and only Italian food to be cooked… I think 2kg of pasta was too much But was good nonetheless.
So week 4… feeling really healthy, put on 2 and a half stone in weight!... looking pretty fat and also tanning nicely having spent most of the week on the beach with the weather being in the 30’s its really too hot .. I’m dreading the heat in the summer.
So back to daily normality again this week, get up when I feel like it! … Do some things. Some times go out to Pietrasanta, Viareggio or Lido for the morning on the motorbike for a walk around the shops before they all shut for the afternoon siesta! .. This is annoying! .. But then they stay open till 8pm! So that’s good but to be back in time for lunch with Rita.
Then I have to drive to pick up Sere from the bus station in town at 2.45pm… then the rest of the day with her and then dinner with Rita and Gino at around 8.30pm, they eat late here for some reason.
So how is it all going... good, I’m fat, some of you might say that’s a good thing but I loved my figure. Rita says that I’m still too skinny how fat does she want to make me? I look well! I don’t look like I have been dragged through a hedge backwards like I did for the past year and a half… I’m sleeping a decent night sleep… and I’m juggling hard! While I have the time and no one is having a go at me for doing some thing that I love so much to do like for the 2 years that I spent with a stupid girl.
So one night I was taking a coffee in Viareggio, I had just juggled for 5 hours on the beach and the students had gone to watch one of the films at the festival but I was on a 5 ball mission with my juggling balls so I stayed with the jugglers from Viareggio.
So anyway, I’m the only one in this coffee shop, I always take coffee here if I’m on the seafront, and this guy comes up and asks me how much I charge to do a show for 30 minutes then hands me his card, he is an agent, he told me that he will call me in 2 weeks and arrange for me to give him a demonstration of what I do, as he had spotted my juggling clubs in my hand, not that I can do much other than 55500 in doubles and this week played 441441 in singles 3 clubs. So I told him €100 for a 30 min show plus travel. He seemed to have snapped my hand off… but yet he is to call me so we will soon see if I have some income coming in! .. I really don’t want to do it but is a resort other than going to join Tom in Roma. But I have no intention to juggle for money! Poi yes, fire breathing maybe if I need the cash but he will have to pay me a lot more than €100 for one fire breath! That is for sure.

So what is next? Maybe if Catherine pays me tomorrow I will have money in my account to secure me another month of doing nothing before crapping myself. Not technically what I want to do, I need to get a job sorted, I’m learning more and more Italian each day but it is really difficult and I am not a fast learner with languages and I need to learn fast else I will not get a job here but for once having nothing to do and no care in the world… I could not care less! I am HAPPY for once.
I am almost over the home sick now I have done a lot of thinking in these weeks after having certain conversations with some of my friends before I left.
There are a lot of things that I would love to do in my life and one of them is to stay here, be it indefinitely I do not know but I am here and we will find out huh? I am sorry to those that wanted me to stay in the UK and I am leaving the rest to fate.

So wow yet another month has now passed.
What has changed?.... notta!
What have I been doing? Lots of photography, I have almost finished a website I have been working on for my photographs.
Been driving a hell of a lot to different places, bit of exploring. Been to Colodi, Some may recognize that name!.. it is the birth place of Pinocchio … absolutely nothing there other than a few tourist shops and a small theme park type place I never found. That day I don’t know how many Km’s I drove that day but I went from Camaiore over to the coast in Viareggio, following the coast to Torre Dei Lago Puccini to the Lake, that I didn’t even know was there and it is huge, took some beautiful photos there, I actually had a job interview there at a extremely posh restaurant for work in the kitchen but I cant start until September so I have to find some thing for the summer!!!! Looking good. Then I drove on south to Pisa, sat on the grass in the blazing sunshine… the tower grounds were full of Germans and American tourists, the one piece of grass you can sit on in the sun shine some security guy told me I need to put on my t-shirt!!.. it was 40 degrees! So he got told where to go… then I drove over to Lucca, Lucca is in the Mountains, went in to School to see Serena for an hour during lunch then drove on to Colodi, and various other little towns in the mountains I don’t remember the names of any of them but the drive was truly magnificent. On the way back into Lucca having got a little lost I went to Monte Carlo where I picked up the Strada Del Vino of Toscana which takes me back in to Lucca to pick up Sere out of school and back to Camaiore…. Not bad distance for a derestricted 50cc…. I have been looking for a Vespa 50 special, right now there is one in the paper for 500E, I think will need some work but even a yankee in decent condition here will cost 2000E… call it a little project to work on,.. will be more practicle for me and Sere both working, next Wednesday she will finish school and Thursday start work for the summer. But I don’t think that she will go back to school in September because two of her teachers don’t want that she passes this year, she needs to take better scores but she already does they are just marking her down because they don’t want that she passes, that school is really bad yet she can go from a 5 or 6 in English and in 1 month is now taking a 10 in every exam…. Strange that.
So come September we hope to have enough money for a house in the bank maybe Sere will not go back to school, she says that she would sooner come to live with me.
Things are good here, just hoping that I can find work even just for the summer then I can go and work in the restaurant where I went for the interview last night.
There are a lot of things that I want to write but I don’t have much time right now, I should have been doing this a while back but didn’t.
Still no internet…. The modem is broken and mine doesn’t work here for some reason….
Got paid from Cath so I have money till the end of the month.
Have an insect bite in the middle of my belly that looks like an Alien has torn through it!! Nice… all bruised and sore.
Gino starts his new job on Monday… still a plumber but working for his brother in law rather than self employed.
Met all the family!... quite scary that was… all seem rather nice though.
Sere had a good birthday…. We had a party on the beach… and she got an Iguana.. (I tried to tell her ) .here goes.
Right I gotta go, I need to go to Lucca to pick up Sere from school and go to the internet café to send you this and post in my journal.
So if I have received emails from you! I havn’t read them sorry…. Not sorry…. I cant read them. Thanks Sarah and Jo for all your support over the last 2 months and to my mom too.
Jo hugs man.
Sarah I hope you get the degree you deserve… love ya.
Mom missing you… love to all the family.
Tracy… I do hope that you are well.
Jeff I hope your travels are as good as mine are… I look forward to read your mails.
Cass sorry I cant be in Paris, I don’t have the money for get there so I will see you in October time, please email me and make me smile.
Flynt, miss talking to you and Pele too.
Val and Troy, hope to hear some news from you soon… about little bubs arrival.
Oooooo saw my first snake here last week…. Wasn’t a viper though!... so back to looking for one of those.
So really I have to go…

And to every one that has my phone number…. Send me a text message so that I get your numbers… my phone died and I lost every ones numbers that I had. +39 3484 209 134 tell me who you are in the message!. And I can text when ever I have some credit.
Any way love you all.
pk

Posted: 6th Jun 2005
FINALLYYYYYYYYY PK FOUND A WORK....
im so happy..he started yesterday night..its in a beautiful restourant on the lake of Torre Del Lago for a help cook!!
so finally we have both a work and we can go to live together also because i had a very strong arguement with my parents yesterday night so we have time till 15 june to find an house and if we dont find we go to live with Aristide and his girlfriend..he is really a good friend for me!! now i search to read my mail!!
kisses and hugs for all
little SeRe

*^*EuPhoRiC*^*PaRaNoiC*^*PeReNiaLLy SaD*^*aSLeeP*^* [juliet when we made love you used to cry, now i kiss you through the bars of a rhyme]

Posted: 6th Jun 2005
COOOL!

i was wondering how his first day at a new job went, did he wear clean pants?

did he comb his hair?


for moving in together

for you sere.

Step (el-nombrie)

Posted: 6th Jun 2005
back combed the hair!!!


was good... but i cant wait to get away from seres parents.... they annoy me.

Posted: 6th Jun 2005
:hugs: for the Pk and :hugs: for the sere

good luk with moving

she who sees from up high smiles

Patrick badger king: *they better hope there's never a jihad on stupidity*

Posted: 13th Jun 2005
glad to hear things is goin well man... 's for your princess and your tanned porky self....

It is our fantasies that make us real. Without our fantasies we're just a blank monkey' - Terry Pratchett

Posted: 19th Jun 2005
oh you are sooo missed mr PK.

TAJ "boat mummy." VALURA "yes sweetie you went on a boat, was daddy there with you?" TAJ "no, but monkey on boat" VALURA "well then sweetie, Daddy WAS there with you"

Posted: 21st Jun 2005
also you too miss V.

any sign of the new addition yet??????

i will be back in a week or so to check my mail....


not moved house yet.... things kinda changed here.

work is good....

weather is hot....

today i pick up my new vespa heheheh.....

my mom and dad are coming to visit in July......

wooohooooo


see you soon guys

Posted: 21st Jun 2005
Hi Mr PK.

I'm sorry I've been rather slack and not written back to your email... I miss you immensly.

xoxoxxox
I'll write you soon, I promise.



Flynternet.

Currently on the right side up of the world.

Posted: 22nd Jun 2005
So glad u found work bro! im so glad you sound so happy, hope its everything you dreamed of and more.
I still miss you tho im allowed lol

Love to Sere xx

Only when the last tree has died
and the last river has been poisoned
and the last fish has been caught
will we realise that we
cannot eat money.

Cree Indian, 1909

Posted: 24th Jun 2005
Ola pk!

dunno wheather you remember me!? Im one of the girls who came to Italy with Andy (poibox), Olivier (ap) and Schelly (the other girl, the younger one with blond hair) over the weekend in april!
just read your "life" and have to say: "wow", sounds interesting, touching, dangerous, funny,.....everything at once - although I know it probably had felt different sometimes while you were in all those situations......

anyway, Im happy for you as everything sounds nice at the moment, new work, new vespa, still your love sere, weather is hot......what else could you wish for???

hope your fine as well!!!?!


all the best,

tina

- Ho Sa -
kisses & peace & love to beautiful madges
*rever le temps le prendre*

Posted: 2nd Aug 2005
..... 8 months till mini pk.

Posted: 2nd Aug 2005
awwwwwww

for you and Sere and the mini-you

"vices are like genitals - most are ugly to behold, and yet we find that our own are dear to us."
(G.W. Dahlquist)

Owner of Dragosani's left half

Posted: 2nd Aug 2005
pk, sere - wow

Geologists do it in the dirt................

Posted: 2nd Aug 2005
congrats mate
thats great news

why is it though tat i keep getting this image in my head??

Non-Https Image Link

"Life should NOT be a journey to the grave arriving safely in an attractive and well preserved body, but rather to skid in sideways, champagne in one hand, strawberries in the other, body thoroughly used up, and screaming "WOO-HOO What a ride!"

Posted: 3rd Aug 2005
Congratulations Pk!!

Never pick up a duck in a dungeon...

Posted: 3rd Aug 2005
o wow!!! Congrats to you all! xxx

tHeReS gOoD aNd EvIl iN EaCh InDiViDuAl fIrE, iDeNtIfIeS nEeDs AnD fEeDs OuR dEsIrEs.

Posted: 3rd Aug 2005
congratulations man! have you found somehwhere that sells mini-uni's with stabelisers yet?

's for sere and yourself...

It is our fantasies that make us real. Without our fantasies we're just a blank monkey' - Terry Pratchett

Posted: 3rd Aug 2005
all the best to you two... I meant to you threeeeeee! yay

congrats and

tina

- Ho Sa -
kisses & peace & love to beautiful madges
*rever le temps le prendre*

Posted: 9th Aug 2005
thanks guys....

thanks brain for the photo, i hope will not look quite like that.... we both dont want to know if it will be a boy or a girl.... so will be a long wait.
sere is not so good, but will not be working from the end of the month, i have to search another job, i hope to work nearer home as where i work is 20miles away in a beautiful place by the lake.

FNF, you know that you can visit any time!, you still have my phone number, i have lost every ones so if i havnt been in touch with any of you i dont have your phone number.

please send me an SMS +393484209134 so that i can keep in touch with you guys, flynt, valura, fnf, glass, dom.... every one.

will be going back to england in jan for my grandmas 80th birthday so i hope to go up to sheffield in that week.

hope to have internet in the house in the next few weeks too all being well.

speak soon.

Posted: 9th Aug 2005


It's my birfday in january y'know.....

Can you PM me your address please Mr K?

Meh

Posted: 16th Nov 2005


I seen you sneaking about in the galleries. Posting your photomographs.

Hope you got some chatting done with Miss Chicken on msn too (cos it cost me a small fortune texting her to tell her you were about )


PiP had a birfday last weekend. You were sorely missed. But Miss Astrofaerie will have told you all about that now methinks

Meh

AnonymousPLATINUM Member

Posted: 16th Nov 2005
Welcome back!

Posted: 16th Nov 2005
hey hey!!! so nice to talkto you earlier!
and also a big huggle to cantus for telling me that you were on. That rocks!

TAJ "boat mummy." VALURA "yes sweetie you went on a boat, was daddy there with you?" TAJ "no, but monkey on boat" VALURA "well then sweetie, Daddy WAS there with you"

Posted: 16th Nov 2005
hello mr rasclat sir!
good to hear from yoo agian!!!
bill

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