I meant diamonds not dollars. Stop being so pedantic.

Hey Katie! Glad you are having a good time and enjoying yourself - you really do make me feel ANCIENT now travelling the world on your own - a far cry from Year 4!!! You take care x

So far you have missed:

Chelsea footballer cheating on his wife cheryl tweedy from girls allowed (ha).

Massive slump in the stock market (whatever) because some french dude in some french bank took his french money and made a mistake with some french stock market bet and the whole world economy crashed so he tried to run away from france but they found him. Will probably spend a lot of time in a french prison now. Unlucky.

Some bloke found £2m worth of hidden dollars in a champagne coloured vauxhall that he bought from some skally girl dressed ina tracksuit in Aylesbury. He is going to announce it officially on jeremy kyle next week. I'l tape it for ya.

Yeah so that is the week's news.xxxx

Want to hear more about all the delicious local delicacies you have had. ( might give me an idea or two for meals). How does mango on toast sound?

Hola K and T.

I think we left the UK on the same day last week, I don't think I can quite compare soggy brussels with the cook islands though !, I also can't compete with Mark's beastly wall post, although mark, If you are reading this, I am jealous of the barginalicous tescos I am getting conned for food here.

I am looking forward to living my dreams through you kt as I while away the dark winter days, so you'd better damn well update this page even if it costs you ten squillion quid through a satellite. So there.

Easy with the throttle on the scooter eh?, have a wicked time x

Hey dude! (or should i say Mancock?!)

Hope you are enjoying all the delights of foreign lands...I saw an advert last night for Americas next top model and wanted to tell you it was coming soon!...

must get back to work! have fun!

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Have heard that extra traffic police have been appointed in the Cook Islands! It's quiet here, but at least there are no cars to be sold! Miss you! xx.

Hi Katie! Only just realised you are bloggable- thought you couldn't get on it on the Cook islands.Can't have you thinking your family don't care! Hope you are no longer lily-white, but you seem to be having more rain than us!Thinking of you all the time-- wish you could send videos on this thing. Would love to see you on the scooter! Miss you loads, can't believe it's not even a week since you left. Take care luv, and stay safe xxxxxxx

Bloody hell Mancock, you're a fast reader!! Glad you enjoyed the book. Thanks for the blog, I can tell this is going to be a very entertaining 7 months!! I like all your island facts too - many more of those please!! I can't wait to see your pics, don't forget to take one of your sexy Honda Civic. (I hope you treat it better than you did your last car!!)Jules and I had a long heart to heart on the phone the day you left, we decided that you leaving was like the end of an era………so to celebrate the end of that era were going to get drunk on Saturday night (Thanks for providing the occasion!!!!) Enjoy yourself Miss Mancock and stay safe xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxP.s. - I was thinking of you yesterday whilst it was pouring down here!!

Oh my God! After several days of half-arsed searching, I have finally found your microscopic island on my gigantic wall map (turns out I have to look at the far left of the wall instead of the far right!)! How ridiculously small is that! Global warming is sure to gobble that place up in no time! It's a good job you've decided to visit now while you don't have to be a submariner.I feel like a really bad friend for not writing sooner given your condemnation of your less expeditious correspondents. However, I shall use the excuse that I was just giving you some severance time to allow you to cope on your own.I'm very pleased that you've found yourself a bit of squad to blaze it up with and that your worries about being the social leper of the traveller fraternity have proved unfounded.I am almightily jealous of your paradise lifestyle and surroundings! The only thing that comes close in my life right now is 2 bags of fresh cherries I bought from the Scally Tesco for £1.29 which would have cost £5.61 if they hadn't been going out of date.I still have my deep reservations about your rebellious preferencing of STA Travel Blogs over the legendary GetJealous.com, especially after they put a big advert in the middle of your blog, but I'm sure I'll grow to overcome the aesthetic trauma of it all before long.Stay safe. Have fun. xxx xxx xxx

Hee hee, I only just got that message and was planning my first hilarious blog post under your name...... it had involved being sold for a few donkeys and having to marry a tribe chief. Alas, I will have to store your password and post the odd amusing annecdote under false pretences another time. Watch out!

It sounds AMAZING. And I am very pleased (and also of course slightly amused) that you have had a mixture of greek-island scooter shennanigans along with some cultural food night experiences. Is your dad like a law-yer?

Miss you and thinking of you! Have a look at my big wall map every day and see where you are, thinking about a minute spek sized you lying on the tiny dot of an island. Be safe! No scooters!xx

Hey Katie,

Sorry I haven't written till now- only realised this thing had a wall. Was really excited to hear from you- I have been thinking of you nonstop, imagining what you are up to. I am so jealous! Can't believe you failed a scooter test you knob! Glad you are having such a good time, England is rainy and crap so enjoy it!

Miss you and love you loads

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