In a turn of good luck, I was made redundant the day I arrived in Melbourne. Nothing quite like being unemployed with no fixed address to motivate you move fast. This post is a little shorter due to my time being taken up trying to find both a job and a place to live this week.

In some less depressing news, the local cafe near the AirBnB I’m staying in does coffee differently. The coffee is accompanied by black tea in an ince belli, or tulip shaped glass. It reminds me of my visit to Turkey several years ago, and is a delightful accompaniment to the morning coffee.

Highly relevant to my current situation is a Derek Sivers quote courtesy of Swissmiss. It’s one that makes you stop and consider for a minute - the distance between deciding and doing. Echoing the sentiment of Teddy Roosevelt in his famous ”get action” quote, it is a timely reminder to get up and do the next right thing to move towards your goals and ideas for life.

“Get action. Do things; be sane; don't fritter away your time; create, act, take a place wherever you are and be somebody; get action.”
– Theodore Roosevelt

Bouvet Island, Norway is an island entirely inhospitable for human habitation - iced over with no natural harbours, and frequent storms see to that. It’s now a nature reserve. All that said, it has an absolute banger of a story idea - in 1964, a half buried lifeboat was found on the island. No ships were reported missing in the area, and there was no sign of human activity (not that you’d survive long on the island). Imagine reforging the island, making it remote but slightly more inhabitable, and throw the mystery onto it. It has all the makings of a stellar neo-pulp fiction detective tale in the vein of Indiana Jones, or Lara Croft.

I’m glad you’re here,
Justin

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