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A painfully funny thing happened while playing golf yesterday.

I was about two thirds of the way around the course and was driving along in the buggy eating a banana when I bit down on something crunchy. My first thought was that I hadn’t got all the peel off – that was until the pain hit!

A wasp had flown into my mouth and, as I bit him, he stung me on the very end of my tongue!!! Luckily it didn’t swell up to much but damn it hurt! and really put me off my already rubbish game for three holes.

Bloody fog! I have just found out that because of fog this morning in Wellington my 16:30 flight has been cancelled and the earliest flight I can get on is 10:00 tomorrow morning 🙁 It wouldn’t be so bad but I’m the MC at a wedding tomorrow and this will be cutting it a bit fine………

Oh well – there’s nothing I can do about it. The only option I had was to hire a car for the 8-9 hour drive home but as I only had about 4.5 hours sleep last night I thought that would be a bit silly.

So I’m now sitting in another hotel room trying to figure out if I have to go and buy any clothes to see me through until I get home. I pack very light when I travel and if something goes awry I get caught out

Fingers crossed that the fog isn’t there tomorrow.
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Sorry for the lack of updates lately, we had some friends turn up from the UK late last week to stay and they’ve been keeping us busy since then.  Me having three corporate golf days this week and travelling to Auckland for two nights isn’t going to help either!

One exciting thing that’s happening though is the fact that the paving contractors have started work on our garden Eighty square meters of paving that will hopefully be complete by the time I get back home on Friday……… We’ll see

Here’s my putting technique from yesterday!

There are few good things about being woken up at 05:45 by a two year old – this would be one of them.

6 weeks of doing atkins now and how’s it going?

5.5kg (12.4 lb) down and honestly, it’s not been too hard. 

Do I miss carbs?  Not much, although the idea of sausages with creamy mashed potatoes and oodles of brown onion gravy makes me whimper quietly I find breakfast the most difficult meal as I was really used to cereal or toast (both now on my “nope” list) and bacon, eggs etc. are just a pain in the ass to prepare at that time of day…….

Saffy just bought her first mouse in this evening!

We kicked her ass out before she could start munching…………..

Jay pointed out that the comment notification emails were splitting and wrapping the hyperlinks so that if you clicked on one you got a very strange page………..

This has now (hopefully) been fixed.

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I realised today that I haven’t really spoken about Max lately, which is a shame as he is going through a period of dramatic (to me) change.

The change is about how he’s relating to the world in a vocal way.  I kept thinking that he wasn’t talking as much as he should but boy he’s changed that thought!  We can’t shut him up now and he seems to be coming out with new words every day!  It’s fantastic that he can come up to you and (sometimes) make himself understood – it makes him wanting specific things a whole lot easier

Another nice thing is that he’s going through a really affectionate phase where he’s just full of kisses and cuddles…… just melts my heart.