You'd think that after the last year of waiting for our New Zealand residency to come thought, I'd have learnt a little patience?

Nope!

This week I have been waiting on the verdict of 2 job interviews. Every morning I eagerly open the email account and nowt, and each evening I've sat waiting for my mobile phone to ring.

There are 2 potential jobs, one in Wellington and the other in Auckland. I've even come around to the fact that we might end up in Auckland...

and still loving it.
A few things im going to write down here,as i do get the moments, when i panic and think,oh no what have we done.
The pain of not seeing my parents and son actually does hurt sometimes.
And then theres yesterday.
Colin calls home to say he is going to be bit late as he is bringing home a car from work.
A smashing big 4 wheel drive
So now i can use our car,instead of doing the 20 min walk to school everyday.
Colin...

June 19 Swarm Cells!
Things had been going along rather smoothly in the hives for a while, so I restrained myself from gushing to you all about how fuzzy and buzzy the bees were. The Russians are still lagging a bit in the comb and brood building department, but it sounds like they are still normal. I’d been comparing them to my overachieving Italians, who have four boxes to the Russians’ two.

But now the Italian vigor may present me with a snag. Upon my most recent inspection,...

We've just completed on the house today Yesterday we moved out of our house in Preston and moved over to the mother-in-laws house in Huddersfield, it's all starting to feel a bit more real now that we're living out of our luggage. We're going to be about 15kg over on our baggage for the flight, but hopefully our scales are out in our favour and we'll remedy that when we can use the scales at the airport. We're going to have to do a quick re-pack and anything over the limit is going to...

At last it seems our boiler has been fixed. The engineer turned up nice and early yesterday and was able to see where the boiler was leaking from. It wasn't from the part that he had come to replace but thankfully he had a spare on his van of the faulty part. He replaced both anyway. He then discovered that the gas pressure was dangerously low and had to call out the emergency gas board. They came and sorted it so now we have a boiler that doesn't leak and a gas cooker that is working on full power...