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... 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... 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... 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... Things have been moving at a pace – the engineer decided standard foundation piles were OK rather than driven ones. That will save a few $s and have meant things have speeded up. Now we just wait for the Council to inspect and then the foundations will get... 