The fun never stops around here. At least I didn’t get stung today (yet).

I was a bit drowsy from antihistamines this morning, so didn’t feel up to an excursion with Karin & Kate. Perking up a little later, I figured I needed to work on woodenware for the bees. It took a little while for the loud humming to attract my attention, but finally I looked out to see what the bees were up to. A cloud of swarming bees is impressive. I guess none of the neighbors noticed, because I heard...

13 July 2008
Since splitting Boudicca’s hive a couple of weeks ago, I have been waiting for the queen cells in the original hive to hatch. On Thursday, I inspected the hive. As expected, there are only a few remaining capped worker and drone cells from Boudicca’s egg laying. I saw one drone emerging from his cell, which is a first for me, and so a bit special. Down in one box I heard a queen piping, so I knew that at least one had hatched out. The piping sounds like a tiny kazoo. She does...

For those people who were scammed by Keith Lightfoot/Stu MacCann, they have a new scam called publicspeaking.com.nz. Now that Newjobs/SkillsNZ have folded up and taken our money, they are now in public speaking scam. They are teaching people to overcome their fears bullshit. They have this video where Keith Lightfoot are talking to some people in a room and he's making all this bullshit talk. When in fact,they're all his lackeys acting(clapping, cheering, laughing). Please let us help stop this...

Well finally some good news for us.
Neil has today received a job offer!!!

We have been here almost 4 months and were almost giving up hope of us staying in NZ.
We had got to the stage of deciding where we would go and what we would do if we went back to the UK (we only have 9 weeks left on our visa).
Well today is the day that things change.

Alcatel- after all this time and their messing around and promises finally came up with the goods- a job...

OK, how do you start these things?

I guess at the beginning!? Here goes.


I have been itching to leave England for a VERY long time, I have always had this want to travel and experience living abroad.

I haven't had the opportunity to focus on proper travel as there is always something that crops up to halt things.


We have plans to visit Paris and Germany this year. But once we hit the shores of NZ, we will be visiting more...