Granny's 80th Birthday!

Last night we celebrated my grandmother's upcoming 80th birthday with a dinner at the New Brighton Working Men's Club - upstairs at the Pierview Restaurant.

All the family were there and lots of Granny's friends. It was a really nice night!! :)

Happy St Patrick's Day!!! :)

A bit of nostalgia

CAFFIENDS!!! I found this last remnant of the former coffee establishment - an old ad painted on the wall beside where it used to be.

We used to go there all the time when we were teenagers. Good times, good times...

And I caught up with Ras and Fi

which was AWESOME! So good to see those girls again :)

The weather has improved lately though

Which has meant that I've been able to go to the beach, and even swim! It's been great :)

This is a pic of my sister and the dog at the beach one evening. More pics are on my web album.

It's fun to catch up after years and years!

First I saw Daniel Harding (who I hadn't seen for years) at a fundraising thing at the Grumpy Mole (shame). Melissa Foster invited me, and choice of venue had NOTHING to do with me!

Then I saw an old friend from high school, Billy Smart!! I'd just said to my cousin Demelza how I would love to catch up with him again, then we went to the Arts Centre, and there he was!!! Just as lovely as ever too :)

I haven't seen him years! Maybe 7 years, even!!

(This photo of me is HORRIBLE)

I didn't get the job in Wellington

Sadly, I didn't get the job I had the interview for in Wellington. Though I got feedback from one of the guys who interviewed me and he was very positive (and talking off record).

I almost got the job, and was a very close second. He even argued for me, but the HR person wasn't having it. Maybe next time :(

My Cousin Brendan + family

My cousin Brendan came back from Australia this month for a visit. He moved there about 4 years ago and plays Rugby League there for a team. He's in the reserve grade at the moment.

Anyway, that's his little girl, Prezlee, and his partner Talila. It was Prezlee's 1st birthday. She's a real daddy's girl.

While Brendan was in NZ, he went to Auckland and got a tattoo. It's a lot like our uncle Sam's tattoo and the guy who did it is our dads' cousin.

By the way, my cousin Demelza (and Brendan's sister) is on the left of Brendan with her little 6-and-three-quarters year old boy, Nehemiah (Miah for short).

This is his tattoo:

Giles has gone to China!

Yup, Giles has gone and left Christchurch for 6 months of perpetual Asian Thursday* in China. He's teaching English at a University there.

Giles has always been such a stalwart of Christchurch that it's definitely weird here without him!

* Every Thursday a group of us have Asian food for dinner at a different Asian restaurant, thus Asian Thursday. Lloyd has been organising it for over 2 years now! With no double ups! Amazing!!

Wow! It's been a month already!

Man, I'm terrible. I haven't updated my blog for a month!!!

So, guess I will now. What's been happening...... (not much really)