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A man and his mower

8 April 2008 1 Comment

Last weekend MT set to with his new lawnmower bought in the sale. It’s not quite the ride on mower he dreams about but with a lawn that’s refusing to grow and thistles growing on most of the land we figured it was too soon to be investing the amount of $s it would be [...]

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Slow progress for Mike and Andrea

7 April 2008 1 Comment

It’s hard to see from the outside the progress inside on Mike and Andrea’s place. There aren’t many white vans visiting that often so you have to wonder how much progress is being made. From the outside some stone cladding has gone on but the main render seems conspicuous by it’s absence. Having spied through [...]

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Rambling the pylon way

6 April 2008 Leave a Comment

When we were building the house we’d often scoot up to site have a snout around and then head off for a walk on one of the trails close by. Since we’ve actually moved here we haven’t been out walking so decided yesterday that today was the day that we were getting back into the [...]

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Turning the clocks back

5 April 2008 1 Comment

We’ve been up real early this morning. The clocks went back so it was an hour earlier than our body clocks were telling us. Mental note for those of you in the northern hemisphere, this means we’re now 11 hours ahead of the UK. Still getting up early means there is more time to look [...]

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Dog house blues

4 April 2008 Leave a Comment

Our butter wouldn’t melt in their mouths puppies are well and truly in the dog house. No joke. They disgraced themselves by chewing up the new veranda furniture that MT had slaved over making over the Christmas break. Although a bit of sanding, filling and repainting will repair the majority there is no getting away [...]

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Perhaps we need some Poles?

3 April 2008 Leave a Comment

It’s been one of those frustrating weeks where I spend ages chasing up people who we’d like to pay them to do work for us. Nothing earth shattering just fencers, landscapers and the like. It seems that here in New Zealand there is simply too much work for people of this kind and nailing them [...]

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Snogging for work

2 April 2008 Leave a Comment

Talking to a colleague about the best techniques for winning business we strayed into the merits of snogging for business. Now before you start thinking this is a way of spicing up my blog, I’m talking about metaphorical snogging not the physical type. It’s true to need to kiss a lot of frogs before you [...]

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Fruit’s of Bob’s labour

1 April 2008 Leave a Comment

My father in law was a determined gorse exterminator when staying with us. He’d dress up in long trousers and long sleeved shirt despite the hot weather and complete with baseball cap, gloves and mask he’d head of to the bottom of the garden with his spraying backpack on. A while later he’d trog back [...]

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