9th September 1991 Day 51

The Diary
Woken up early by Ross and his mate working on the house. Went into town, stood in the bookshop for a while, cashed my travellers cheques, bought food and papers and it was still only 10am. Wandered aimlessly round Nobby's for a while. It was today that I realised how bored I'm getting now that we're not travelling around or sightseeing. It's time to start work soon or get moving again.

Fortunately Oz got a job today. What he's going to do we're still to find out. It sounds like a door to door salesman to me. We went out and kicked the rugby ball around to celebrate and Oz continued his run of luck by falling down a hole in the field. had a pint at The Brewery, kicked a hackysack around in the dark wih Phil, Nige and Bradley before returning to the house to discover that the water was off for the night. Anne had damaged a pipe.

As we couldn't cook our usual gourmet meal (or more precisely, Bradley couldn't) we went to Pizza Hut and had a very spicy pizza. We rounded off the night watching Division One on the telly. And Boro are top of Div Two and I'm on the wrong side of the bloody planet. 


10 successful companies or organisations - Coca-cola, McDonalds, ICI, BP, Reebok, Tetra-pak, Kodak, Reuters, Rupert bloody Murdoch and Worldwide Information Network.


2011
The house was damage in the Newcastle earthquake a few years earlier and still needed lots of work. 


Who was Phil ?

• Bookshop - a place where people bought books and sometimes bought coffee. Superseded by the Kindle and other tablet devices
• Travellers Cheques - archaic form of pre-paid cheque to allow travellers to purchase local currency. Almost entirely superseded by plastic cards with magnetic stripes and chips. soon to be further superseded by smartphones.
• Food - not yet obsolete. Watch this space.
• Papers - replaced by the internet, PCs and tablets

Division 1 - football before the advent of the Premier League. Which is, of course, the point at which all current records start. Div 2 - currently known as The Championship.


10 Successful companies - we were obviously a) bored b) inspired by Oz's new encyclopedia sales job for the Worldwide Information Network. Some of these companies are less successful now and Rupert is in the poo. I sat in a seat behind him once on  a flight from Tokyo to Sydney. He was amazingly pleasant to all the staff on board. Not like some people in business class that think they own the plane.