The garden has undergone a transformation over the last few weekends – what was once weed infested has now been cleaned out and the vegetables are starting to enjoy more space.  Kirsten had planted these tomatoes prior to me moving in and they’re enjoying the sunny days we’ve been having!

And the male of my new neighbours, it’s interesting that the male of the species is always more attractive…

One of my new neighbours, I’ve moved again and these little ones keep popping up to say hi.  I imagine they’re more interested in the bugs and berries but then chirp at me now and then – actually, they might be telling me off – but I’ll pretend they like me.

I’ve packed in writing my website by hand and reverted back to the bog simple Word Press – this new fan-dangled version is pretty slick and as I’d prefer to work on content then the ‘back end’ as they say, I’m happy to be in a simple CMS land.  There’s some great themes available also – so [...]

Our house was broken into yesterday, in broad daylight. Laptop, cameras and other gear, all 300 of my DVD’s and various other things are now no longer ours. All materialistic, everyone is safe, but now we’re both feeling rather dissilusioned and violated. It was as if we were in a movie, everything thrown about the [...]

Soon I will be gripping a throttle and motoring through town on my very own motorcycle. Over the last few weeks I took a basic handling course ( required in NZ but also very helpful to build my confidence handling a bike ), studied the road code, nailed the written test to acquire a learners [...]