A wealthy prince throws a huge party in his gaudy mansion during an epidemic for his asymptomatic friends while the peasants die. Then the virus shows up and tears through his fancy guests. Familiar? It’s the exact plot of Edgar Allan Poe’s 1842 classic, “Masque of the Red Death”
How to kill two and a half hours on a Saturday afternoon...
Lose 7kg / 14lbs in weight (that’s a “stone” to you Brits in the back...) Then buy a new xDeep Tec sidemount harness and wing and try and fit and adjust it so that it “feels” like your old harness and wing... 😐
Ok - so that was a surreal hour in the bank. Account manager asks me who I support as a football team then gives it all "you'll never walk alone" Arabian scouser large...😳 who flies over to watch matches and has... https://t.co/y3lRW6n3Bq
There are some places where surviving a day driving on the roads is as much a matter of luck as it is good judgement...
Or as is the case here, insha'Allah - if God wills it... 😐 – eating Japanese food at Sakura Tei https://t.co/MiNR7SRgld
Several Piper-Heidsiecks and a couple of beers going down nicely....
My dry January starts when I land in Jeddah later this p.m. - shouldn't have too much problem managing to stay dry for the rest of the... https://t.co/EWJIeIBcaf
Yup - now going to spend the next month writing 2018 instead of 2019... 😐🙄
Enjoy folks... Peace, love & blessings...💥⚡️⭐️💫🥂🍾🎉👏🏾 — at Shangri-La Hotel, Colombo https://t.co/mFnR3ye6gn
When getting to the dive shop entails crossing, and then walking down the train tracks, before the local express comes barrelling through... 😳😂 — in Dehiwala https://t.co/fEWN4NSPLI
That was fairly painless - except for when I asked where the lounge was and chappie says: "after Scotty..."
And I'm looking at him helplessly and thinking to myself - Scotty? Who the fu#k is Scotty?
Is there a... https://t.co/isyCgZtrCK