Well, no bikini - maybe a postini? My co-worker keeps Coast FM playing and I hear all sorts of old music - some crap, some great (Tequila!). And the song that inspired the post-title was a few minutes ago ( Read more... )

Said week of recovery being filled with social calls, visits to Auckland beaches, work (sigh), sleep, and catching up on RSS feeds. Catching up on LJ has not gone quite as successfully - so please, comment with links to interesting stuff that has happened to you. Or to the monkey overlords. Curious Deborah's want to know ( Read more... )

This morning I was wide awake at 5:30am. *blinks* So rather than try and snooze more, I thought I'd take advantage of the 24hour net cafe. And then I'll have a swim.

The swimming pool here is weird. It's outdoors (that's not weird), and it's got a bottle shop beneath it (ok, that's a little weird), but the really weird thing is that the bar looks ( Read more... )

It was Melbourne Cup Day today - undoubtedly there were a bunch of people down in the bar watching it on the screens there, but we completely forgot about it until we came down to dinner - and it was quiet by then.  No idea who won, but don't really care :)

Sunday evening we caught up with our cousin Pete, who lives here in Surfer's. We were ( Read more... )

I've got a wash on in the guest laundry, so I've shot down to the cafe to update you all on what's been happening. Because the last two days have been incredible ( Read more... )

Thought I'd use the internet cafe in our hotel, and let everyone reading know how my holiday with Al is going. Yes, we're here on the Gold Coast, and having a wonderful time!

We flew in Tuesday evening, and had a ... challenging time finding our way to our hotel.  I'd pre-booked a rental car, which we collected from the airport, and found our way ( Read more... )

In two more sleeps Al and I fly out to the Gold Coast - hooray! The fundraising went fantastically, coming out just under $5000 NZ. Thank you, again, to everyone who contributed. We literally could not have done this without you all ( Read more... )

I've been MIA recently (well, missing from posting). Still around, just not with the writing it down. Apologies, grovelling, etc. Information in heading and bullet point format, 'cause it's easier to type that way.

Gold Coast~ Al and I fly out on the 30th of October, with a flight late afternoon. Wow, that's getting close! Is there anyone in ( Read more... )

In no particular order...
It's Danny's memorial service this afternoon. At a Catholic church in Newton. For all my funeral-going, I don't end up in a Catholic church very often. I'll be curious to see if it's much different to the Anglican and Presbytarian churches that I grew up attending. Will be good to see friends as well - although I expect bigtaz ( Read more... )

DannyWe finally have some news about what's happening with Danny. His funeral proper is going to be held in Pahiatua - where is family is, I presume - but there is a memorial service in Auckland next Thursday (details in the Funeral notice below). Al and I will be there. Also, apparently, there will be drinks raised in his memory at Urge Bar ( Read more... )