Well g'day and how are you all? We've had a couple of emails recently from friends asking where the blog is and how are we doing as we're very quiet. Well we're good - I guess when you settle down into working life and all that there's just less to report on because everything is now becoming normal rather than new! We've been pretty busy since Christmas. Ali came out for 3 weeks over xmas and new year just a week or so after we moved into the house. It was lo...

Hello, hope everyone had a good Christmas. Thought I would write about my weekend in Arrowtown watching the NZ golf open at the Hills and a competition we entered. THE FRONT NINE As I finish work at 11am on a Friday it enabled me, mid afternoon to travel down to Arrowtown which is a stones throw from Queenstown. On the way I stopped at Tekapo and Omarama for refreshments as it around a 4 hour drive. I arrived at 7:30 and then set about putting the tent up, ...

Hello We hope this finds you well, not too cold and all getting ready for crimbo. I am now convinced that crimbo will just miss us entirely this year due to the (unseasonally!) warm weather and the fact we have to get all our 'overseas' cards in the post by Dec 1st - eek. Can you all email me back with your postal addresses please, as the Norwich phone book is now not in the cupbord under the stairs, however my mother is still in the country and does have the mo...

HelloSorry about the lack of communication once again, it has been an amazingly busy and exciting time.In the past 2 and a half weeks, we have seen and fallen in love with the perfect house, been invited to apply for New Zealand residency, viewed the house again (plus a few others for comparison purposes), fallen completely head over heels for it, found a mortgage broker (through my sister Sara), been told we can get a mortgage without residency (hurrah!), found ...

HelloCool duck eh? He ventured up to my trainers with the lure of half a roll last weekend in Tekapo. Good weekend except for the massive cloud that arrived before our stargazing trip - we have no luck with stargazing trips, the last time we booked on one was in San Pedro in the Atacama desert where they have no rain ever - ecept for the day we were there and the biggest cloud ever arrived. Don't ever book on a trip with us!! Hope you all liked the photos fro...