STOP PRESS!...Monday 19th June…..

Adam now has permanent residency in New Zealand. Passport collected today with blue sticker permit and returning residents visa.

Letter From New Zealand 6*

*With continued apologies to Alistair Cooke

Kia Ora, Folks. Here we are again, don’t know where the time goes.

Well what’s been happening, (apart form the Psycho Kitties from hell arriving, that is. More later)

As usual a bit of local flavour.

We’ve just had the final of the Rugby Super 14’s in Christchurch between the two main NZ Teams the Hurricanes from Wellington and the Crusaders from Christchurch, unfortunately the Crusaders got lucky and won! Probably because the whole game was shrouded in fog. (That right Lorna?). Liz and I met up with some friends and watched the game over dinner in a pub in Tawa (a small town outside Wellington). The night following the match some of the team members were out on the town and following an altercation Tana Umaga (ex All Black captain and prominent Hurricane player) attempted to defuse a situation by clocking one of the other players with a ladies handbag, (not his I have to add…)

News Byte re Handbag incident

And needless to say, the usual suspects were rolled out.

The bottom line is that the $50 handbag was put up for auction on TradeMe (like ebay) and was sold for $22,800. He should go into business.

TradeMe News Byte

It’s the little things in life that make the world go round.

So, what’s been happening around the home. As you have probably seen, the ‘film stars’ went live last month, ah well you need a sense of humour.. Link to Clips

Adam is gainfully employed as an Art Worker for a metalwork company producing ‘metal stuff’ to order. (i.e. cufflinks key rings and corporate design items),

Link to Adam's work web site

He is enjoying the work. This has allowed him to apply for permanent residency and he is currently going through the process…

Liz was organised to start work on a casual basis doing massage and Reiki in a clinic last week, but was struck down with a type of vertigo (BPPV) and had to put everything on hold (she insists it's not drink related but keeps falling over). For those of you who are wondering why she's been absent from the email front, that's the reason and she'll be back when she's back on form.

Earthquakes. Had a few little trembles since we have been here, one last week happened at 5.30 in the morning as I was hopping about putting on my socks. I couldn’t figure out what was happening, thought I was having a ‘turn’ until some stuff fell off the bookcase, which was a clue that the problem was external..

On the subject of keeping a sense of humour, the two new additions to the Anderson household moved in on Wednesday. Needless to say, life hasn’t been the same since. Cleo and Max have firmly taken over the living area in the dining room for now, systematically dismantling anything they can. She, Cleo, is the brains, Max just blunders along with her (no gender specific comments please!). In order not to bore the disinterested, and not clog up this blog with photos of the Psycho Kitties from Hell, I’ve created a sub blog to hold the photos for the oooh and aaaah brigade. (Quote from the vet, “chocolate box kittens”)

Link to Psycho Kitties from Hell Pictures

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Well folks, short and sweet this month. Hope all of you in the northern hemisphere enjoy your summer, we are now in the 4th day of winter...