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 starting to wrap up the house for winter which [...]
Photoblogging: Up Mount Kaukau
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 all good. So almost 6 months later looks like [...]
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 completed, chimney frame built, rear walls clad and work [...]
Trip across the pond
Houseblogging: almost a hat
Numbers are not my friends
For someone who had to retake her GSCE in Maths numbers have never been my friends. Living with someone who can delight in reading pages of numbers this is often a reason for discussion on how I should improve my mathematical abilities. Thank goodness for spreadsheets that’s all I can say. After years of following [...]
Viewing our future residents
Monsoon summer
I was recently blogging about the indian summer we were enjoying in NZ. Sorry to tell you that this has now broken into a monsoon season. Since the beginning of May we’ve had 79.4 mm of rain in Wellington. To those not used to metric that’s just over 3 inches. It’s been torrential rain battering [...]



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