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After many hours of waiting at airports I eventually made it to the wedding! My 10:00 flight from Auckland was delayed to take on more fuel as Wellington still had fog patches but we eventually made it back home at about midday. The wedding was about a 90 minute drive away so it was a quick trip home to say hello-goodbye to Max (I was at home for seven minutes!) and then off we went.

The wedding was held at on old country homestead and was originally going to be held in the garden. Unfortunately the weather closed in an plans had to be changed at the last minute and so the ceremony was held in the reception hall which worked quite well. Long story short it was a great wedding and my MCing seemed to go quite well.

The image effect is clichéd but what the hell

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!

Saffy just bought her first mouse in this evening!

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

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This weekend has been really tough work!  My Dad came over and we got started on the raised garden.  We had to dig 25 holes to a depth of about 500mm and the damn ground here is mostly rocks 🙁 We had a stand on digger with an auger and that didn’t cut the mustard sometimes so I spent a big chunk of Saturday on the end of a pneumatic drill trying to get the holes to the right depth!  Sunday was spent cutting the posts, lining them up and concreting.

The pics from each evening are in the extended entry.

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Here’s the view from my hotel room in Sydey.  The picture was taken with my phone so looks like shite but I had an amazing night looking out this window watching an electrical storm over central Sydney on Wednesday.