CURRENT MISSION

To live happy and green

ABOUT ME

A bit of a drifter, I like to keep moving and not stay stagnant too long. Tidy person, can cook, don't like to take up too much space, always one foot out the door... Don't like loose ends.

PHILOSOPHY

'Were it not for the presence of the unwashed and half-educated, the formless queer and incomplete, the unreasonable and absurd, the infinite shapes of the delightful human tadpole, the horizon would not wear so wide a grin.' This basically outlines how I feel about existence and my lack of prejudice.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

I donate money. When I get myself on my feet, to the point that I actually have a couch, I'll host forever.

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

I was staying at this place while undertaking an internship at the CSIRO. The surfaces of the room were covered in dust and mould; there was a cupboard at one end of the room which buzzed and emmitted an eerie glow. (For obvious reasons, I was unable to hang my clothes in it) There was a bin for all the rubish in the room, but the lid was being used as an easle (It was one of those stainless steel pedal ones). The room had not been inhabited by a human for what looked like months, and previously inhabited by most likely a teenager. And yes, upon my first week there my respiratory system was suffering from the continued inhallation of mould spores, but by month two, I couldn't even smell it any more! :)

Interests

Plants, the environment, knitting, reality, great conversations, attractive people, great music, people's opinion about life, death and the universe, motorbikes, cars, epiphanies, lifecycles of everything.

• environment
• cooking
• clothing
• cars
• knitting
• music

Music, Movies, and Books

Authors: George Orwell, Irvine Welsh, Dr. Karl, Hunter Thomson, Jack Kerouac
Films: Ghost World, Into The Wild, American Beauty, Chasing Amy (really anything that is brilliant and about people)
Music: PUNK: Nofx, Bad Religion, Reel Big Fish, Mad Caddies, Less Than Jake, Lagwagon
GENERIC: Caravan Palace, Crystal Castles, Scissor Sisters, Nirvana, Josh Holme/Dave Grohl (Whatever they're doing, love 'em), Art v Science.

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

An eagle swooped down in front of my car on the freeway and carried away with it a fox carcuss.
I've also met David Attenborough... Ask me I love to tell :)
I also met David Attenborough once in London, chatted for like 10 minutes... I'm not offended if you ask me about it, it was awesome!

Teach, Learn, Share

If you have access to more than one different species of Citrus tree (Lime, Lemon, Orange, Mandarine etc.), you can graft one onto another to create a fruit salad tree. By using a grafting knife, you can slice a piece off your stock tree (lets say it's an orange) and slice a similar piece of your ROOT stock tree (let's say it's a lemon), and graft the two together. The best way to slice is to make what looks like a foot out of the branch (A year old or so: No thicker than the pinky finger), with a slice into the branch (about 2mm), a slice along the branch for about an inch and a slice back out of the branch (2mm). Then just make the mirror image cut on the root stock (ensure the branch being used for the graft is the same density). Graft the two together, using grafting tape (It allows the wounds to breath, while binding them together to create a whole new branch of the tree). Within about 2 months you will know if your graft was successful. Within about a year you will have multiple fruits on the same tree. Give it a go. The possibilities are numerous!

Countries I’ve Visited

Austria, Belgium, Denmark, France, Germany, Greece, Italy, Netherlands, Sweden

Countries I’ve Lived In

Australia, Spain, United Kingdom

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