Wardsan

"Nemo me impune lacessit"

Jonathan Ward

39 / Male

London, United Kingdom

About Wardsan

Travel Guru | Member since 15th Feb 08

Citizenship: United Kingdom
Marital Status: Single
Occupation: Self-employed
About Wardsan:

I gave up a job in a bank in 2007 and travelled around SE Asia for a year. Now bank in London and looking for a job that is not in a bank.

Hobbies:

Watching cricket; food; reading; wildlife; photography.

Favourite places:

Italy; Vancouver, BC; Sydney, NSW; NYC; Westray; Luang Prabang; Hoi An; the Banda Islands.

Activity : photos (1701) forum (14) guide (33169) blog (147) diary (0) trips (1)

Latest Blog Entry

Wage slave

Posted by Wardsan | 11th July 2009

OK, we're getting on for two months since the last post - but this blog will not lie down and die just yet.

I have been working. In London. For money. Five days a week. I haven't been contractually obliged to work five days a week since 2003; and I haven't worked a rigid five days a week since 2001. So it has been a shock to the system, and I have been too exhausted to blog, or do anything else but stare at the wall.

There hasn't been any travel recently, as I am dead broke, so what do I write about? I want to write about New Guinea, but have determined that that will be the end of the blog. Meanwhile I haven't got time to write about anything else, so here are some words that I have been enjoying recently: cozen, malapert, eldritch, baluster, martingale, sneck, endued, oneiric, apocope, omnifutuant, nugacity, ithyphallus, orts, diastemic, apotropaic, champaign, messuages, pyknic, chrism.

No, I don't know what some of them mean either.

Finally, here are some butterflies

Continued | Asia 2008-09