The nominations for the 2005 b.net NZ Music Awards have been announced and my brother Sam features in several categories.
The album “Fly My Pretties” which he appears on has been nominated for Best Pop Release, Best Cover Art and Best Album, the latest Phoenix Foundation track, Hitchcock, has been nominated for Best Unreleased Song, and [...]

The Relationships (Statutory References) Bill was passed yesterday by the NZ Parliament. This is the piece of legislation that changes all existing laws to give civil unions (mostly) equality with marriage. There are still some gaps in the “equality” though, the right to adoption has not been extended and also civil union partners of NZ [...]

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Was awoken by a earthquake early this morning.. it was quite a slow but strong shaking. Our first instinct was to rush and grab the children, luckily it stopped just as we were about to burst into their bedrooms or it would have been a very early start to the day. Earthquakes are strange when [...]

Apparently I cannot get ADSL until Saturday WEEK! Yes that’s right, a whole 8 days of dial-up hell. I suppose it’s character building. My office is nice though. I have a great comfy office chair now, makes a lot of difference. My old friend Rachel and her little girl came around for coffee and playdate [...]

The mummies, two kids, two cats and a dog are all moved into the new house. Day one (our stuff from Auckland arriving) went great. We had it 90% sorted out and the house looked lovely. Then on day two the rest of it arrived from Sydney (138 packages!!!) and it all fell into [...]

We are surprisingly organised and just waiting for the movers to turn up now - always the most harrowing part! Hopefully they will be here shortly and then it can all go like clockwork. Helen is looking after the offspring here tonight while we go into town and direct operations. Newtown here we come!

Mardi Gras day in Sydney today. Have a happy and safe night everyone! Wish we could be there! I hope the weather is good for the parade too.
Just got an email from my webhost provider saying they would like me to switch from Movable Type as the comment spam is loading up the server too [...]

The settlement went through at 11:44am! And now I am a bit tiddly after a couple of glasses of champers to celebrate… good thing I work from home eh?
This is the first house I’ve ever owned where there is a chance Jan & I could still be living there as two little old ladies [...]

I had a very strange experience in bed last night. Jan & I were fast asleep, when suddenly she rolled over violently and whacked her head into mine with all the force of a English soccer hooligan! We both screamed in unexpected pain! I don’t how she managed it - anyone ever had that happen?
Settlement [...]