Archive for March, 2006

Twisted and bitter
March 25, 2006

My bike was twisted and I am bitter – hence the following rant – bear with me, it will be short.

Removers crushed my bicycle when we moved to NZ.
The movers shrugged their shoulders and pointed to the insurers.
The insurers spent three months trying all avenues to avoid paying.
Stream of notated photos, techincal reference material from [...]

One acronym begets another
March 21, 2006

In the last five weeks, our previously mentioned EOI (Expression of Interest) has undergone a metamorphosis. Today, what left this house as bits and bytes – and a large credit card payment – returned in the form of a large courier package containing a large bundle of papers, forms and supporting material which makes [...]

From spring to autumn
March 18, 2006

It was only when I was on my second St Patrick’s Day Guinness that I realised why the date of the Paddy’s Day posters looked familiar – March 17th was the expiry date on the original visitor’s visa in my passport meant that we have been in New Zealand for exactly six months. I [...]