Sinister: I never should have settled down, hanging round in a one horse town...

[Stuart Gardiner]

So I'm not hanging around any longer. There's only so much time a man can 
cope with his parents for, and I passed that amount of time about three 
months ago. It's finally gone far enough, so I'm leaving tomorrow. For 
Thailand.

OK, so it's not really just the parents that have made me want to leave the 
country for a while. The sun, the beaches, the temples, the jungle, the 
mountains, the trekking, the food, the people... All perfectly good reasons 
to head to Asia for a few months.

Am I running away from real life? Possibly. But what's the point of working 
your arse off for years, caring about nothing more than getting a slightly 
bigger house and car? That's not the life for me. So I'm not as rich as some 
of my friends who've been working as investment bankers or something for a 
few years. But I've had what I consider to be a much better life. Doing a 
job I enjoy for the last few years, and working hard enough at it to get the 
money to pay for this. My life never has been, and hopefully never will be, 
ruled by making money. I've got the chance to spend the next few months 
having the experience of a lifetime; it would be immoral to turn down that 
chance, wouldn't it?

It's weird, when I tell people I'm planning on going travelling for a while, 
I get two responses. Either they say I'm wasting my life (hardly, I've had 
more of a life than anybody devoting their life to an accountancy firm will 
ever have); or they say they're jealous (in which case, get off your arse 
and do it yourself! Saying you've got to keep your job / house / money 
whatever is just an excuse. If you really want something, go for it!).

I'll be thinking of you (not least when I'm A Cuckoo becomes B&S's first top 
ten single next month... And why not? It's their best, and most radio 
friendly, single for years). And who knows, maybe you'll think of me, when 
you look out of the window at another winter's day, and I'm living in a 
beach hut off the coast of Cambodia, or trekking in Nepal. And you'll 
decide, sod this, I'm going to do the same. Because you can, you know. Don't 
dream it, be it.

Right, I'm leaving first thing in the morning, and it's now 9pm. Time to 
start packing...


Big Stu

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