Houseblogging: wrapping up for winter

It’s been almost a summer’s day today for our houseviewing adventures – 19 degrees and not a breath of wind. We’ll not quite, it did start to blow a southerly whilst we were up in Kaitoke.Still, the Moss Brothers build team continue to motor on...

Photoblogging: Up Mount Kaukau

The sun was shining and although there were threats of a southerly to blow in we decided to make the hike up Mount Kaukau which is right behind Khandallah where we live. It’s an uphill climb that I did on New Year’s Day where the views of Wellington and...

What comes around….

Avid readers of my blog may remember earlier in the year that this executive-domestic managed new heights of frustration with interference and mind changing of colossal proportions by the powers to be where I work. But, hey I got over it at the time so that’s...

Houseblogging: closing in

You have to look closer to see progress on the house build this week. After a glorious week with no days lost because of rain the builders have continued to make great progress putting in ever increasing amounts of detailed components.The roof framing has been...

Trip across the pond

I escaped New Zealand this week for a quick trip across the Tasman to Australia on a fact finding mission for a project at work. You’d think that getting from Capital City Wellington to Capital City Canberra would be a simple journey to make. Not so! It took 12...