Living the Dream – Page 52 – World Wide Walkies

The Question that No-One Dares Ask – “What Does It Cost You to Tour Full Time?!”

Cartoon of the world, money, and a briefcase to illustrate money can't buy you happiness, but it can buy you travel.

Money can’t buy you happiness – but it can buy you travel, which comes close! We were made redundant at the age of 51 and 53 respectively. It was terrifying.

STRANDED!

We were back to the look of reproach from the pups as we left today. Really. We should have listened…

If you read my last post, you will know that we are suffering a few issues with a full scale Viking invasion. Last night, The Vikings went a’Viking once again. Yes –you might not know that Viking, or more correctly, Vikingr, is actually a verb used to describe men behaving badly with beards, backpacksContinue reading “That Monday Morning Feeling…”

A Viking Charm Offensive – and Other Oxymorons.

Oxymoron – noun [ok-si-mawr–on]. Rhetoric. “A figure of speech by which a locution produces an incongruous, seemingly self-contradictory effect, as in ‘cruel kindness’ or ‘to make haste slowly.’” We went to bed in rapt antici…pation of an early start and getting first tracks, but our plans went horribly awry at midnight. The Vikings arrived! We got a small sense of how the monks of Lindisfarne might have felt in AD 793. We cowered in the dark while doors slammed,Continue reading “A Viking Charm Offensive – and Other Oxymorons.”