There’s nothing the kiwis love more is an event. It doesn’t matter too much what the event is and whether they are truly interested in it but if it’s an event, then a ticket must be bought and a social extravaganza organised around it (usually... It feels really wierd at work. I think I am now officially a lame duck General Manager. With only 8 more working days in this role my email traffic has almost ground to a halt, the phone only rings to recruitment consultants or advertising sales people and my staff... It’s the finer points of detail that will be the delight in our house. I was starting to see them for the first time today – the finishing touches that will make it all really special. The scrolls under the windows, the feature coving, the architraves and... I wonder whether Monty Python wrote their Spam Song http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=2496293981990713675 how much of an intrusion into people’s lives Spam would become.Just recently, our wonderful ISP decided to change it’s email system and lo and... Thank goodness the ABs did their stuff and kicked off their World Cup challenge with a positive start. Not sure I could have stood a bad start and the immediate malais that would have brought to the country.Instead, headlines this morning read “All Blacks... 