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Australia, the long way round: October 2009

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Australia, the long way round. Sunday, 18 October 2009. Home on the range. View over the Wanaka © Me, Oct 2009. On the way back, thanks in part to genuine interest and partly utter boredom with the same film over and over, they both got a bit of a kick out of looking out the window instead at the sheep and cows and deer, and even the awesome beauty of an unspoiled wilderness – although to be fair nothingness. And fish 'n' chips. The kids are splendid. Ellie seems to grow an inch a day, reads everythi...

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Australia, the long way round: November 2009

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Australia, the long way round. Monday, 30 November 2009. Here's the thing: we've moved house. This isn't something we secretly planned or even contemplated, apart from the time back in September when our landlords decided they were coming home early, we baulked and they agreed to find somewhere else until our lease ended. For now, let's just say we took a broader view on things and decided to get out. More about the house, the move and all that, later. First, the dog. No, louie's hobby is chewing stuff.

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Australia, the long way round: June 2009

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Australia, the long way round. Sunday, 14 June 2009. The lava flow valley overlooking Pigeon Bay, Banks Peninsula. Unpacked by the end of day one, even if we were neck-high in cardboard for the best part of the week. Other realisations, like exactly how steep is our street? And oh no, it seems we've shipped 16 cubic metres of worthless crap halfway round the world. Were more gradual appreciations than sudden shocks. It's taken a month to realise a few other things. 2 Kids are incredibly resilient. It's j...

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Australia, the long way round: Home on the range

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Australia, the long way round. Sunday, 18 October 2009. Home on the range. View over the Wanaka © Me, Oct 2009. On the way back, thanks in part to genuine interest and partly utter boredom with the same film over and over, they both got a bit of a kick out of looking out the window instead at the sheep and cows and deer, and even the awesome beauty of an unspoiled wilderness – although to be fair nothingness. And fish 'n' chips. The kids are splendid. Ellie seems to grow an inch a day, reads everythi...

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Australia, the long way round: Happy New Era

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Australia, the long way round. Monday, 11 January 2010. Normally I wouldn't confess the failed resolutions but just this once, by way of illustration, I'll list them all out. 1 Stop editing Wikipedia:. Allowed me to fully disengage over the xmas break. Result. 2 Stop being snappy with the kids:. 3 Get some bloody work in:. Along with a bunch of other good local projects (I've even scored some work on our own place) I think it's fairly safe to call this one a tentative Success. 5 Get fit anyway:. More my ...

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Australia, the long way round: Incidents, accidents and prophylactics

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Australia, the long way round. Thursday, 6 August 2009. Incidents, accidents and prophylactics. And cod liver oil is the best way of getting a regular dose of it. It also gives you a big dose of vitamin A and some recent studies have claimed there's a need to be quite careful with it due to the possibility of vit A overdosing. The web's own GP, Dr Mercola. More people get flu then. I tend to go with the Weston A Price Foundation. On dietary matters, who argue that the two vitamins in the natural form.

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Australia, the long way round: December 2009

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Australia, the long way round. Thursday, 31 December 2009. A tale of three houses. At last, crimbo over with and the new year looming, I've found some time to fire off the last blog of 2009. It's ending well, everyone fit and well with work picking up for me and our housing situation finally sorted out for the foreseeable future. How we got here, the lovely old wooden bungalow we're now calling home, is a bit of a saga going back to last October. Tempting fate, me Mam calls it. Links to this post.

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Australia, the long way round: July 2009

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Australia, the long way round. Monday, 27 July 2009. Tell you what, Canterbury might not be the most progressive county in New Zealand but they know how to deal with school holidays. The council organised something called KidsFest. Whether they're any relation to the famous. I leave to you to decide ;). We've never been so spoilt for choice and the two weeks just flew by, all topped off by a trip up to the snow. Ever since our first view of the Southern Alps. Osk's talking is really coming on, really qui...

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Australia, the long way round: March 2009

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Australia, the long way round. Friday, 13 March 2009. Packing it all in. The kids are quite keen to leave. Wow, three weeks since my last post. Notice I say my. Last post; Niki hasn't blogged for so long I've pretty much taken over sole responsibility for the thing, so it's maybe not surprising that it never gets done. A bit like the housework I should be doing instead of typing this, it's a question of priorities and there's a definite pecking order, ie, if the housework needs doing, there's always.