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aotearoa and everything after: 0800 BUGGER OFF
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Aotearoa and everything after. We moved to New Zealand (Aotearoa) to start a new life. We knew nobody but soon made friends. This blog chronicles our emigration experience, our adventures in our new country and just stuff that happens. Monday, September 29, 2008. We've had all sorts: a man asking me to explain how to use sunblock, a woman in Greymouth who had lost her cash in a vending machine. Hold on.Ha! We have one persistent junk faxer but the no.of wrong numbers is off the charts. We do everything, ...
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aotearoa and everything after: July 2007
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Aotearoa and everything after. We moved to New Zealand (Aotearoa) to start a new life. We knew nobody but soon made friends. This blog chronicles our emigration experience, our adventures in our new country and just stuff that happens. Tuesday, July 24, 2007. Its been a strange couple of weeks: many things have happened, both good and bad but all of them new. The NZ Herald reported the story thus:. As we passed, a chill ran up my spine. A white car crushed to two-thirds of its normal size straddled t...
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aotearoa and everything after: March 2007
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Aotearoa and everything after. We moved to New Zealand (Aotearoa) to start a new life. We knew nobody but soon made friends. This blog chronicles our emigration experience, our adventures in our new country and just stuff that happens. Wednesday, March 28, 2007. The how and the why. Well, its a big story - bigger than I thought until I typed it! We looked to Europe - Spain was a possible, so we visited it to see - good weather, but the language barrier was an big issue. How little we knew back then!
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aotearoa and everything after: August 2007
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Aotearoa and everything after. We moved to New Zealand (Aotearoa) to start a new life. We knew nobody but soon made friends. This blog chronicles our emigration experience, our adventures in our new country and just stuff that happens. Sunday, August 12, 2007. 2 general anaesthetics in the space of 48hrs fucks you up. An obvious statement I know, but to actually experience the crazy things that rattle around in your brain while "spaced off one's pickle" can be both beautiful and harrowing. No real rest a...
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aotearoa and everything after: October 2006
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Aotearoa and everything after. We moved to New Zealand (Aotearoa) to start a new life. We knew nobody but soon made friends. This blog chronicles our emigration experience, our adventures in our new country and just stuff that happens. Saturday, October 14, 2006. Last week I got to do just that. After only a week in full-time employment, I jetted off to Christchurch to hook up with my seasonnaire buddy Will and to have my first taste of South Island snowboarding. Will and his posse have been doing nothin...
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aotearoa and everything after: November 2006
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Aotearoa and everything after. We moved to New Zealand (Aotearoa) to start a new life. We knew nobody but soon made friends. This blog chronicles our emigration experience, our adventures in our new country and just stuff that happens. Thursday, November 23, 2006. Is this The Darkness", asked Jussi as I drove him to the airport. "No bro, this is the. Cock rock. That was only 3 years ago, so I guess this proves DLR's music stands the test of time. Listening to it cements a moment in time for me. It re...
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aotearoa and everything after: Stupid Stupid Stupid
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Aotearoa and everything after. We moved to New Zealand (Aotearoa) to start a new life. We knew nobody but soon made friends. This blog chronicles our emigration experience, our adventures in our new country and just stuff that happens. Wednesday, September 24, 2008. I was already late and although I was right outside the offices of a client, I couldn't find a parking space anywhere. I parked up and in the dimness I grabbed my stuff then hurried off to the meeting. They'd drilled the lock through and help...
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aotearoa and everything after: May 2007
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Aotearoa and everything after. We moved to New Zealand (Aotearoa) to start a new life. We knew nobody but soon made friends. This blog chronicles our emigration experience, our adventures in our new country and just stuff that happens. Thursday, May 24, 2007. At various times at work I'll either feel really good or totally adrift. Why can't you do this simple task? Why is it taking you so long? Why didnt you finish this yesterday? A cross between Ike from SouthPark and something from Designers Republic.
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aotearoa and everything after: 60s legend
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Aotearoa and everything after. We moved to New Zealand (Aotearoa) to start a new life. We knew nobody but soon made friends. This blog chronicles our emigration experience, our adventures in our new country and just stuff that happens. Thursday, September 04, 2008. Last night we played a gig with a legend: Dave Ball. From Procol Harum. If you know the song "A Whiter Shade of Pale", thats them. Anyway, the rest of the band were available and dead keen, so in minutes we accepted the gig. This time we didnt...
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aotearoa and everything after: doom and gloom
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Aotearoa and everything after. We moved to New Zealand (Aotearoa) to start a new life. We knew nobody but soon made friends. This blog chronicles our emigration experience, our adventures in our new country and just stuff that happens. Thursday, May 08, 2008. I heard on the radio yesterday that "unemployment is up, over and above previous forecasts". In the paper last week was a "downturn on the way" headline and there's not a day goes by that there is a report of the continuing "housing slump.". When re...