Guns and Frocks

Loving Delta and the Bannermen since 1987

  • Phase III: Dolce Far Niente

    Phase III: Dolce Far Niente

    I never really planned this holiday. Calvin booked the plane tickets and the hotel accommodation at the start and the end of the trip, and helped me to buy my Eurail pass. But I always intended to just make things up as I went along. But I did have one thing I really wanted to […]

    Nathan

    Monday, 4 December 2017
    Blog
    2017 Long Service Leave
  • o quid solutis est beatius curis

    o quid solutis est beatius curis

    Sirmio, jewel of islands, jewel of peninsulas,jewel of whatever is set in the bright watersor the great sea, or either ocean,with what joy, what pleasure I gaze at you,scarcely believing myself free of Thyniaand the Bithynian fields, seeing you in safety. Catullus 31, translated by A. S. Kline Sirmione is a peninsula — nearly an island — that juts out […]

    Nathan

    Sunday, 26 November 2017
    Blog
    2017 Long Service Leave
  • Le wifi antibois

    Le wifi antibois

    Tonight I’m staying on the Côte d’Azur, extremely annoyed at the quality of the wifi access. This is the end of my first full day in Antibes. I’ve never been here before: coming here was entirely Angela’s idea. I’m not sure I had even heard of it. I had always assumed that I would need […]

    Nathan

    Tuesday, 21 November 2017
    Blog
    2017 Long Service Leave
  • 61.6%

    61.6%

    11.30 PM I bounce my arse over to the next stool at the bar, next to the American boy with the goatee. His name is Aaron. I haven’t spoken to him yet. It’s noisy here, and so I have to shout to be heard by the pretty South American barman. His name is Hector. “Hey. […]

    Nathan

    Friday, 17 November 2017
    Blog
    2017 Long Service Leave
  • Wachten op het resultaat

    Wachten op het resultaat

    Nothing much to report from Amsterdam, really. I’ve been sleeping in and wandering the streets since I got here, really. Which is more or less what I was hoping to do. Reading, listening to podcasts, trying to avoid the local food. That sort of thing. The highlight of my stay so far was the Rijksmuseum. […]

    Nathan

    Tuesday, 14 November 2017
    Blog
    2017 Long Service Leave
  • Phase II

    Phase II

      I’m in Amsterdam now, in a darkened pub, drinking Amstel and typing this post on my phone with a Microsoft foldable keyboard. I’ll upload it when I get back to my hotel. It’s my fourth time here: apart from Tokyo, this is the foreign city that I’ve spent the most time in. It’s still […]

    Nathan

    Saturday, 11 November 2017
    Blog
    2017 Long Service Leave
  • My own bodyweight in chips

    My own bodyweight in chips

    Sleep, mostly I’m in a pub just outside Euston Station, waiting for a train to Manchester. I’ve got a bit over an hour to wait; I think I overestimated how long it would take me to get here. The pub doesn’t have wifi — I’ll have to upload this post when I get on the […]

    Nathan

    Tuesday, 7 November 2017
    Blog
    2017 Long Service Leave
  • Hello World!

    Hello World!

    Welcome to Guns and Frocks. I’m writing this post in the First Class Lounge at Sydney International Airport, just before catching a flight to London. The last time I was here was in 2008, the last time I took long service leave, and I was about to start a month-long trip travelling around Europe by […]

    Nathan

    Wednesday, 1 November 2017
    Blog
    2017 Long Service Leave
  • What to expect from Season 9

    With the debut of Doctor Who season 9 only weeks away, it’s time to ask ourselves what we can expect to see from this exciting new series of Doctor Who. THE DALEKS ARE BACK! For the first time in 5 years, and for the first time ever on TV in colour, the Daleks (and their gorgeous blonde secretarial […]

    Nathan

    Friday, 4 September 2015
    Writing
    Doctor Who
  • Dear Neato Robotics people,

    Dear Neato Robotics people, My partner and I are the proud owners of one of your robot vacuum cleaners. It’s one of five vacuum cleaners he has bought for the house, and he really loves it. He has named it Alice. It’s something that remains undiagnosed, I’m afraid. Anyway. We soldier on. He is particularly […]

    Nathan

    Tuesday, 1 September 2015
    Writing
    Complaints Department
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