Well my friends, it would seem I have cancer, lung cancer at that. Don't know any other details, I'm waiting. So I decided that due to being digitally immortal now thanks to the internet, I'd start my rant, before the cancer gets me. And it's started, as of last weekend 7th of July 2013. For those in the future, check me out on Facebook, Ashley Mark French, ashley.m.french.1@facebook.com, lsdash@hotmail.com, ashley.mark.french@gmail.comand my website is
http://ashleymarkfrench.wix.com/ashley-mark-french
I was born in England, UK. 23/9/65. In Middlesex, at the Perivale Maturity Hospital, the same hospital as Kate Middleton's mother.
We lived at 37 Heaver Avenue, West Kingsdown, Kent.I went to the Old School in March 1972, School Lane,West Kingsdown, Kent.
We departed from England on the 14th of August, 1972 and travelled on a BOAC VC-10 aeroplane. Landing at Sydney Airport on August 15th, 1972. We the3n flew from Sydney to Adelaide by TAA (Trans Australian Airlines, the government airline), on a DC-9.
Started School at Para Vista Primary School September 3, 1972.
MUM & DAD BOUGHT THEIR FIRST HOUSE IN AUSTRALIA1973 in BRIGALOW AVENUE, MODBURY. THE HOUSE HAD A SWIMMING POOL SO WE WENT TO
LEARNT TO SWIM AT GEOF LEDGERS CLOVERCREST SWIMMING CENTRE.
ALMOST MADE GROUP ONE BUT DECIDED TO LEAVE AND HAVE A LIFE.
ALMOST MADE GROUP ONE BUT DECIDED TO LEAVE AND HAVE A LIFE.
1974 NAN AND GRANDAD CAME FOR A HOLIDAY FROM ENGLAND. CYCLONE TRACY HIT DARWIN. WE WENT FOR A HOLIDAY COLAC, VICTORIA.
Graduated from Para Vista Primary School 1978 AND Started School at The Heights School
January 1978, High School.
MUM & DAD'S 2ND HOUSE IN AUSTRALIA
December 1978 in HILLTOP AVENUE EAST (LATER NEWLAND AVENUE), RIDGEHAVEN.
PLAYING GOLF AT THE NORTH ADELAIDE GOLF COURSE, December 17, 1978.
DID WORK EXPERIENCE AT JENSEN INTERSOUND & ELECTRONICS. THE
TECHNICIAN,ANDY, FITTED EXTRA CHANNELS AND WOUND THE OUTPUT POWER UP FOR
ME.
I SPENT A TERM AT CRAIGMORE HIGH SCHOOL
THEN RETURNED TO THE HEIGHTS. Left The Heights School April 1982
Expelled! Oh well. Lippy the Lion didn't like being yelled at. Not many headmasters do I suppose.
Started School at Salisbury East High School July 1982.
Left Salisbury East High School 1983.
BOUGHT A REMUS LES PAUL GUITAR October 1984
THE WORST COPY OF THE GIBSON LES PAUL. $120 BRAND NEW!
MOVED TO VICTORIA. GOT JOB TRIAL, SHOWED WORTH AND BECAME A METAL SPINNER, RETURNED TO ADELAIDE FOR A BRIEF INTERLUDE AND IN March 1985 BECAME A METAL SPINNER AGAIN. BACK TO WORK AT HANKS METAL SPINNERS NEXT TO TIP TOP BAKERY, SOUTH CLAYTON..
I only stayed in Victoria for another nine months before returning to Adelaide. I stayed in a flat above the Chicken Inn, North Adelaide. It was this time I met Michelle Nancy Hampton but a couple of weeks after meeting her I was locked up for thirteen months in Yatala, South Australia's maximum security gaol. When released, I moved in with Michelle Nancy Hampton, Shelley, at Ballard Avenue, Paradise. Later to marry and a have a son by at Braemore Terrace, Campbelltown
Modbury- North 12 Brigalow Avenue
Rigehaven - Newland Ave (previously Hilltop Ave East),
Para Hills West - Bunburra Street
North Adelaide - Oconnel Street - Above the chicken Inn
Cambelltown - 34 Braemore Terrace
Palmerston -2 Castor Crt, Woodroffe
Edwardstown - Adelaide Terrace, Edwardstown
Elizabeth - East, South, North - Rons Place.
Perth
Kangaroos stupid things! They run at you! From miles away they play get the light or shiny thing. And they don't muck about. It's always one, following the one you missed! From small ones that bend your number plate to big ones that stove the front of your car in. Kangaroos hey.
And although the Volvo didn't last long in my hands (just over 3 months), she went through a fair bit though. After picking up my friend, Mat up from Crystal Brook,North of South Australia, we left bound for Darwin, to pick Mango's and also so I could see my son, Kenny, which was a rare occurrence. After we'd gone past Marla Bore, we hit a kangaroo, which caved the front in, but suspect caused it's final mechanical problem.The impact was removed by way of a great using a large length of seat belt, a government sign (really solid ) and reverse. We limped slowly to the next town Kulgera.I caught a bus and went to Alice Springs, to the wreckers and bought a radiator for a 6cyl Skyline.Went back, fitted it and drove to Alice Springs slowly,fitted a huge thematic fan and then sat on 160 kph to Darwin. The grille was now replaced with aluminum security screen. It drove beautifully around Darwin through Mango season.The impact with the kangaroo, the shock, had loosened a bearing cap. I could hear ticking noise under load. It got worse and worse.Eventually it ended up spitting through the sump,70 km's north of the Ayer's Rock, Ularu turnoff.The middle of Australia, the middle of nowhere!
I really enjoyed my time with my Nan at Coleman Road, Goolwa. In my grape vine pruning days.... good money that was, but freezing cold work. Miles of solitude. A group of us take a row each and steadily pruned, until we'd done the whole winery. Different pruning for different types of grape variety. Driving the Volvo's 144/164E. 164E got left on the side of the road, in the middle of Australia, 70 Km's North of the Ayers Rock, Ularu turn off, returning from Mango picking in Darwin.where I met Philomena Alchin. Just after the Coalition had taken Iraq was the time I left my Nan and returned to Darwin. Love was in the air again. It only lasted a year and a half due to being caught manufacturing Methamphetamine, spending 3 months in rehab and moving into a caravan park, The Sundowner Caravan Park, Berrimah.
To think of some of the revolutions that has happened in my lifetime. How different life is today. And for the most it's taken for granted. In the '70's everything was repairable where as today, it's a throw away world where things get thrown away and replaced rather than kept and repaired. Black and White TV to the internet connected, 3D TV's of today. From simple communication (letter, phone/land-line) to 24/7 connection by way of mobile phone`. From the Holden Kingswood to the last of the Holden Commodores, Simple carburetor cars to computerized fuel injected cars and now the hybrids and electrics.. Computerized everything! The world sure has come along way and changed immeasurably.To think what the computer has done for man kind. We had no idea that computers would touch our lives in so many ways. That we traded style like that of Ron Conron's old '57 Chevy for the aerodynamic bullet shape of all modern cars today. The change from cb radio's to handhelds and now to miniature mobile phones with built in computers. 27 MHz CB to UHF CB. Amateur Radio's became silent as the internet took over, Morse code is no longer necessary. Simple cars to computerized cars. Records to CD, Phillips Video Format to Beta to VHS then to DVD & now Blue ray. The 386, 486, 586, 686, Pentium D, Core Duo, I3, I5 & I7. The laptop, netbook, ultrabook, the tablet PC . The iPhone and the Android. The microwave oven. Average outdoor Marijuana to indoor, under light hydroponic marijuana, much stronger and now a narcotic. From speed, crank, coke to the purest of Ice (methamphetamine). Pre 9/11 to post 9/11, times sure have changed.
Plus no more unlimited speed limit. What fun it was 160-200 kph to the local shop Noonamah
I've tried to brake as many rules as possible and haven't done a bad job of it!!!
Still can't get over how well the drive, Darwin to Perth (4200 Kilometers) in three days went. Not even a flat tyre! Hit two kangaroos with very minimal damage (Broken indicator lens and small dent in guard) in a shitty four cylinder '93 Toyota Camry to boot! Last time, one roo killed my a car, a Volvo (the worlds strongest/safest car?).
I wonder who long our data actually stays on Facebook, is it forever, just continually growing or will they at some point need to reclaim space and delete us, just like cemeteries. Are we immortal digitally in cyberspace?
HMMM. 100 GIGS OF MUSIC. OVER 800 GIG OF MOVIES, WHAT NEXT? MORE OF EACH I SUPPOSE!
UNLIKE CHRISTIANS THAT NEVER SEE THEIR GOD, I GOT TO SEE MINE. I SAW OZZY AT THEBURTON THEATRE, HENLEY BEACH. WHAT A SHOW! (WOW HAD TO LOOK UP SUBURB), WHAT WHIZZ! THE CLOSER TO THEBBY THEATRE I GOT IN TAXI, THE MORE I RUSHED ON THE WHIZZ. WHAT A NIGHT! THE BEST CONCERT FOR ME EVER. WHAT LEAD GUITAR FROM ZAK WYLDE AND THANKS OZZY, I REALLY NEEDED THAT BUCKET OF WATER!
$300, WAS TOO BUSY SELLING ME DOPE AND MISSED TICKET SALES! OH NO! TOLD EVERY CUSTOMER 'I'LL PAY WHAT I HAVE TO, I WANT A TICKET! SO YES, $300 LATER, I WAS THE PROUD OWNER OF A TICKET. THANKS TO TRUDY, MEAGAN'S GAY FRIEND.
SUCK SHIT COPPERS, I SMOKED THE LOT, NONE FOR YOU!
BABY DROWNS OFF OF CHRISTMAS ISLAND AS ASYLUM SEEKER BOAT CAPSIZES.NO IT'S NOT OUR GOVERNMENTS FAULT BUT IT'S ABOUT TIME SOME COMPASSION WAS SHOWN FOR THESE PEOPLE. JUST BECAUSE YOU WERE 'LUCKY' ENOUGH TO BE BORN IN AUSTRALIA DOESN'T GIVE YOU THE RIGHT TO BE SO HEARTLESS TO OTHERS PLIGHT!
WHAT A WAY TO WAKE UP. STEW FOLLOWED BY COFFEE AND CONES, LISTENING TO HAWKWINDS 'WARRIOR ON THE EDGE OF TIME'. AN ABSOLUTELY BRILLIANT ALBUM, THANK YOU MR BROCK!
