hey everyone! have sat down with coins jangling in m,y pocket ready to plonk into the machine wen the buzzer beeps. am going to tell you everything. our first weekend trip was to greymouth on teh train. that was......hmmmm, 5 weekends ago. as the monday was a public holiday we both had two days spare so on the sunday morning, bright and early, we were picked up by a shuttle bus and taken to christchurch station. considering christchurch is a magor city the sta...

today we went to edoras! our driver on the tour had done the sound on the films so had actuallt been there when filming and with the other 3 blokes in the depatment had won and oscar for the last film. was in a beautilfull settin, called mt sunday cause the local farmers used to all meet up there on sundays for a picknick. very very fun, specially as they had a replica of aragorns and eowyns swords and gimlis axe and a flag of rohan for us to play with. they also...

hello everyone! thanks for emails bout annabel, prayers are spreading. dunno how long i havbe left so will type until the 2 minute buzzer sounbds and then i will go and watch another episode of firefly wgich emma rented out form the video store. highly reecomended. already? humpf buzer just went. work is going better and people are being nice. its amazing what happens when i listen to God instead of just complaing about everything. day of tomorrow as is ca...

this morning roseannes brothers came round to watch the all blacks verses france rugby then we went to get a mufffin with her dughter and freind and then visited her mother (who was so lovely and told us about emmas grandparents and gave us a packed lunch and some honey) then we got teh coach back to christchurch (via kairkoura for tea)

roseanne (the sister) is perfectly lovely and took us to picton where we walked some of the queen _____ track (got a boat out, walked a bit, then got a boat back) and then took us to visit some of her family. her daught christie is 4 weeks off her first baby! blemhiem is in marlburough and that is full of vineyards and wineries going on for miles!!