So, it seems a lot of my fellow inmates are to be released from this prison colony in the very near future. Who will remain and when is everyone planning to leave?

I cannot get parole till Feb or March 2010, so still have over a year left of breaking rocks and sewing mailbags to do .

Best I can hope for is a full pardon in Nov 09, but I do have temporary time off for good behaviour this Xmas

I am soooo jealous

Done less for murder i suppose

Time served 33 months. Only 4 weeks left.

77 mths served, hopefully less than 8 weeks left.

238 mths in

Ouch!!!

Time served 5 years - 4 weeks left

Oh my, you must have been a very bad tr1boy, put's my 40 months served into perspective, hey ho only another 14 to go .

I'm into endurance sports

But there is only so much mind-numbing boredom a person can take, enjoy your time off, you have earned it hun.

I've reached a state of zen

Funnily enough it looks like I'll have to give up triathlon and cycling so I will be looking for a new diversion upon my return. Probably this:

Funny you should talk of new diversions, the one good thing about coming here and knowing no one was I learned to knit, one of the very few things I will miss will be my local yarn store who welcomed and taught me. It has come in handy for the lack of good clothes shops, fortunately they have an online store and deliver to England. Being a nurse the donorcycle scares the living sh*t out of me, yoga or pilates would be great for your back though.

Yeah I have been doing pilates for about 5yrs now. It does help

I can knit (really) my Mum taught me when I was little, only basic stuff though

WOW I am seriously impressed. Most blokes think pilates is for girls, but there was this one guy at my gym in Harrogate known to the ladies as "buff pilates guy" fabulous eye candy, for those who are into that kind of thing of course . Compared to the beefed up jocks at the footy gym in Essendon he was an adonis.