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12 -1

After two episodes Vic and I are hooked on the weirdest reality show Outback Jack. 12 American city girls in the Australian outback competing for the affections of a hunky Aussie bloke. …

News

money

I discovered today how difficult it is to find Chinese currency!  None of the major banks carried Yuan 🙁 I finally tracked some down at Thomas Cook so I now have currency…

Ramblings

silly things

Here are some really cool adjustable measuring spoons that I bought Vic They were even giftwrapped! By Kitchenart Here are the mousetraps I bought.  I can’t find a decent picture of them…

Max

mr helpful

I might as well stay around…… where else would I be able to show how hard we’re working Max before he’s 18 months old And thanks to Gina for pointing out that…

Site News

bummed

I’m thinking about packing this blog/site in. This site (and http://www.allthegoodnamesweregone.com prior) was started about 6 years ago to allow the people home in NZ to know what going on in our…

News

speedy

At last Telecom got my broadband installed.  This happened on Thursday and I’m getting about 3.5Mb/s (vs 7Mb/s into the old house) Still faster than dial-up though They did however completely forget…