Birthdays Galore!

Two birthdays this week, my youngest brother Mike turns 21! And here is a photo of him practising for the big occasion.












And my beautiful mother celebrates her birthday the day after Mikes. I wont be seeing either of them till much later in the week but I promise I've bought birthday presents!

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Cheetah Photos!

Yeah that's me in the enclosure with the cheetah. As part of Gaels Birthday present we went on a Zoom tour at the Auckland Zoo. You get to go behind the scenes and get very close to the animals. The cheetahs at Auckland zoo were chosen to be ambassadors for the species and were hand reared. (if you've been watching the zoo TV show you'll know all about it) About 1/2 the cost of the Zoom tour goes directly to conserving these beautiful cats in the wild, and the other 1/2 goes to the zoo. Its all nerves when you first step inside their habitat, but it was a hot day and the cats were pretty relaxed. I think by the end of all our session all our therapeutic petting had put them to sleep!

Its unconditional!

We can move in on the 14th of December. I really thought I'd feel way more excited, but mostly I just feel tired! All the stress of getting everything organised has probably taken its toll, but now all we have to do is wait 3 weeks, pack and move in!!! Yay!

Boing boing, take twice daily

BoingBoing is a blog which is updated frequently. It highlights areas of quirky design interest on the web, gross injustices of the web word, and real life injustice such as being arrested at the airport for having a rubber band ball. Visit twice daily for best results.

Its a best of the web blog. Very neato.

Hey that reminds me!

It was Sondras Birthday on Tuesday! Happy belated birthday Aunty S!

House Thing going well

Just got all our reports in! LIM, Valuation and Building inspection. Its all good people.
Except the piles for the deck. Seems the owners did a DIY fixit on the old ones. urgh. Not so pretty. Anyway a friend of mine happens to have a husband who is a structural engineer. Overkill maybe, but he's going to take a look at it on Sunday for us. Other problems include a 46 year old roof and a few bits of wood that need replacing. Just typical stuff for a house of that age. Structurally its fine and it passed the moisture test.

Anyway here is a pun to lighten the mood.

Oi you lot!

I've had just about anough of this anonymous comment posting. Show yerselves! or at least sign your entries ;-) Hey who can guess who this is?

And it goes on and on

All your bases are belong to us!

Oh the memes of teh internet. This is being boinged lots.

First check out this.

Then you can read the explanation here.


l33t hAx0R .... or something.


More cats here (just for you Jamie)