Travels of Shepp

After a long 3 and a half months, I've finally completed my farm work!! It feels INCREDIBLE to be done. This is a moment I've been waiting and wishing for a long time, and it felt so amazingly surreal to drive home with Camilla at the end of our last day, music blasting and with the farm well and truly behind us. It's been such a strange, life-changing experience. It's the hardest work I've ever done. I never would have done something like this off my own back. Some people don't mind the actual work, but generally I hated it... Now I've reached the end, I'm so burnt out and OVER IT, I literally could not have done another day more. But what I did like was the people.  I've met so many incredible people from all across the world, got to know people so well so fast, and shared incredible as well as tough memories with everyone. All living and working together, chilling in the caravan park during the afternoons after work, and go...

Since we've just celebrated Halloween I wanted to do an appreciation post for one of my favourite times of year. Anyone who's seen any of my Instagram stories around the end of October before knows that I live for Halloween. I LOVE making my own costumes and I spend months in advance coming up with a new idea each year. Last year as the house from Spongebob Squarepants  And the year before that as a bag of jellybeans... This year I was pretty proud of myself especially considering it was done on a backpackers budget and a farmworkers effort! Anyone who compared it to the jellyfish Ernie and Bernie from Shark Tale, I thank you graciously for this honourable compliment. Recognising all this fun, I'd like to make the case for Halloween being the best holiday. All you Christmas lovers, hear me out. I love Christmas just as much as the next guy, but you can't deny there's a pressure in the lead up to Christmas. Wha...