38 weeks to being a domestic-executive

Although maths is not my strong point there is a reason for me rapidly increasing the countdown to being a domestic executive to only 38 weeks. This is because I now have two glorious weeks away from the office – yeh….! By about Tuesday this week I started to seize up and brain function was [...]

Countdown to being a domestic executive: 40 weeks to go

I could make lots of excuses about why I’ve not been blogging but best to be truthful and say things are a bit normal – in other words not very interesting to my average reader. The festive break won’t come soon enough – I’m tired and need a rest. This executive-domestic is all worn out. [...]

Post party blues

After the excitement of partying last week I was looking forward to a few quiet days to prepare myself for the holidays looming. Trouble is, I think I’ve slowed down too quickly and now struggling to get going at all. At first I thought it must just be an age thing and adjusting to the [...]

Countdown to being a domestic executive: 41 weeks to go

The fact that we’ve now exchanged contracts on the land on Kaitoke Loop Road and told the vendor of the other land to take a hike the whole domestic executive thing is becoming more real. Put together with another week passing in a flash I can see that time is going to motor on in [...]

Stop press: progress at last

Hot off the press, we’ve just got word that the first set of paperwork from Land Information New Zealand (affectionately known as LINZ) has arrived and this means we can go unconditional on the purchase of Kaitoke Loop Road. This is the same as exchanging contracts in the UK. It’s fantastic news and another small [...]

EJ in Wellington

Did I want to be corporate wife and go to see Elton John? Why not, I said. So we did. Us and about 30,000 others at the Cake Tin. It was a strange event on a number of counts. Being corporate wife is not something I do often but pleased that MT is getting the [...]

Now don’t tell me there’s no global warming

I was pretty excited about this at the time but things with the house took over blog space and then I forgot to mention it. Sorry about the delay but here’s the evidence that there must be global warming or some other weather phenomena. Icebergs have been floating off New Zealand for the first time [...]