A few weeks ago we went down to Surfers Paradise for a weekend. Tina's sisters were on annual leave, so we decided that we needed to do something fun before they got back to work. So we found a good...

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At long last our stuff has arrived from New Zealand. It was packed and taken away by Allied Pickfords back on 20 December 2006, and left Auckland by ship in early January. It arrived in Brisbane on January 12, four...

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Over the Christmas holidays, Tina and I took a brief trip to Kaikoura and Blenheim. We went across on the ferry and rented a car for a few days to drive around. While the weather on the first day was...

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Telstra has got around to enabling my ADSL2+ connection. Theoretically it can do up to around 20Mbps, but I'll happily take 10 for now....

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Brisbane is an interesting city. Unsurprisingly, it is much hotter than Auckland (it's supposed to reach 31°C today and it reached 34°C one day last week). The consequence of this is that everyone walks so slowly. Well, walks slowly is...

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I went to Snowplanet this evening with the social club from work. Basically it is a large indoor ski slope just out of Auckland. They have a reasonably decent slop, several tows, and plenty of snow kept at a cool...

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