I’m off to town in a minute for an appointment at the Fertility Clinic. Since all our donors are now trans-Tasman, we have to go the medical route for baby #3. And I am the lucky birth parent this time! Should be entertaining. Glyn has been here the last week and he has done his […]

The lesbians are back together on Shortland Street - what a glorious start to the new television year!

I realised yesterday that I am feeling damn happy! “Happier Than a Puppy with 2 peckers“. Just continually grinning and bouncing about the place.
I think it’s because the long hard road of moving back to NZ is nearly over with. After all the stress of making the decision, packing up, moving to Auckland, packing up […]

EM, Em or em can mean:

Electromagnetism
Electron microscope
Exametre (1018 m)
Expectation-maximization
Enlisted man
Em dash
Em space
Em, a unit of measurement used in typography.
Effective
Microorganisms
a letter of the Cyrillic alphabet. It corresponds directly to
the Latin letter M and is pronounced similarly.
The letter M in the Latin
alphabet.
also one of the Spivak pronouns.
a common slang for “them”.

via Wikipedia

With the Oscar nominations yesterday, I am counting down to what is traditionally one of the big social events on our calendar, the annual Oscar party. However this year it’s going to be a LOT quieter than normal, as we have left all our friends behind in Australia! No, we do have some here, but […]

From my bro Samuel Flynn:
This thursday The Phoenix Foundation will be playing a free show at
the Soundshell in Wellingtons Botanical Gardens…it kicks off at 8pm
and looks should a marvelous setting for the phoenix shtick. Expect
some new tunes! See ya there.
cheers
Phoenicians
PS Happy Australia Day, all youse Aussies!

Archie
He has settled into the farm and just loves playing with tennis balls on the lawn and trucks in the gravel. His favourite book at the moment is his Finding Nemo comic - we had to buy several copies as he loves them to pieces. He is much more persuadable, for example you can promise […]

Thank god, our loan got approved and the house purchase is now definite. They cut it right down to the wire but it turned out it was just post-New Year clogging of the system, nothing to do with us. So now we are counting down to the 4th of March.
Newtown here we come!