Scheduling myths

Guess who is back on their patch of grass!We had our project induction meeting today for the house build. A real experience to be briefed on the finer points of health and safety on a building site. We were gutted we didn’t get our own hard hats to wear and that...

Photoblogging – being a laid back kiwi

One of the wonderful kiwi characteristics is the ability to chill out and be laid back. I thought I was time I started to perfect this whilst away on our Easter break in South Cape, Hawkes Bay. It wasn’t hard to do this given the beauty of the surroundings nor...

Photoblogging: House with roots

The house now official has roots. About 70 foundation piles concreted into the ground. There is now also a site office, a rather menacing looking timber saw and all the necessary amenities for the builders to make themselves comfortable in.View across the siteClose up...

Hot cross bun day

Can you believe a long standing afternoon engagement with my team to partake of the traditional Easter bun went ahead without me yesterday as I had to step into my bosses shoes and attend a meeting for her.It gets worse. The reason why she didn’t want to go was...

Who can you trust

Avid blog readers will recall that last year I blogged about a rape case where serving policemen were aquitted of charges. The same police were aquitted again in a similar case a few weeks ago. What came out at this point is that two of the defendents were actually...