The personal blog of Heydon McIntosh
Goodbye New Zealand…and Hello from London. It’s my birthday today and I’m hastily scribbling lines on the Tube. This was intended to be my 2022 post, but I’m aware that my readership and writership largely correlate, so I don’t think too many people will be disappointed in the delay. It’s hard to believe that I’m…
It was supposed to be the year of freedom for all of us. The year we hoped life returned to a bit more normality, but alas, pandemics seldom ever last just a year. COVID-19 is still the mantra we all live by – the cause of or excuse for every social or economic disruption we…
Introduction It seems like an age since of all of this began. Pandemic – that word that carried such urgency, never really registered in our collective consciousness. When major outbreaks of diseases were discussed before 2020, they were often in the realms of fiction such as the film Contagion, the video game Pandemic or novels like…
Part One: The Road To Wellington 17/01/2020 – 19/01/2020 After some last minute touches to the packing and some final adjustments to my car, I headed off on 17th January. I wanted to see more of my own country before I headed off overseas and while I have been to all the main tourist spots…
Before my disastrous trip to Brazil was cut short earlier this year, I was scouring over the travel blogosphere reading various packing lists. While I ended up packing a lot of useful gear, I ended up overpacking and regretted it. I was hauling a huge suitcase alongside a backpack and large laptop bag between accomodation options. There…
Otras Europeas – Other Europeans. This is what I’m classified as in Chile by the Carabineros in the Police report. The reason why I had to obtain a Police Report, or even the reason I’m here in Santiago is a disappointing story This is a story of how when travel goes wrong, and why the most important…
The Year In Review Welcome to The Out Post’s first yearly review. I started this blog earlier this year and despite planning to write more, life seemed to get in the way somehow. I promise you my Dear Reader that one of my New Year’s resolutions will be to update this more often; Writing about…
Hello Again! Apologies for my lack of posting recently, but I’ve been busy the past two months with a really fun project I’m happy to share with you: A Board Game called Quotetastic! Early Beginnings The original idea came to me in late 2015. I’ve always enjoyed party games like Articulate, Apples to Apples, 5…
Welcome to my first readers and to all those who cared enough to have stumbled across this site. As the name implies it’s intended as both a refuge and a place where all my writing is posted out to you. I tried starting a blog years and years back but soon gave up on the…