Hi all,

Well the big news this week is that our stuff finally arrived from NZ. Remarkable really - it left at the end of October and has only just made it to our house. We had hoped to get it before Christmas but because we didn't send enough stuff (?!), they had to fill the container with other people's stuff and the container made a long trip to the other side of the world, stopping off at a significant number of ports on the way. So our CDs are now more 'traveled' than we are!!!

It arrived on Tuesday and morning and I took the day off work so Bridge and I could sort it together. I must admit I have been quite desperate to get our stuff around us. New house, new furniture and only our clothes with us - bit like living out of a suitcase in a glorified motel!


Anyway, all 42 boxes arrived and basically filled up our dining room. We had enormous fun unwrapping everything - finally our Christmas arrived. We couldn't remember what we had sent over so each parcel was a surprise.

It was great to get all our nic nacs, CDs, stereo, tools, cutlery, paintings etc around us. It took all day to unpack it all and we slept exceptionally well that night.

We had a great evening and had the Nature's Best CD (filled with NZ songs) blaring on the stereo, had a beautiful bottle of Muddy Water from Jane (Bridge's sister) and Mike's winery in Wairarapa, paintings of Lake Hayes and Rangitoto around us and a fantastic meal eaten off our plates, mats and cutlery...stunning!

We only had one breakage - the computer of all things - everytime you turn it on, it beeps like crazy and obviously doesn't like being in UK at all! Our movers are busy trying to organise to get it fixed.

That's been our week really...weather - very nice day on Tuesday (and I was home - yeah!) and today (Friday) so looking forward to a very nice weekend - might pop up to Oxford for a look see.

Take care everyone - blog back please!

Ciao