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... 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’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... 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... 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... 