While in Te Anau, had an email from Emma very excited, saying that her friend Mandy was finally moving out of her privately rented house, & the landlord was happy to let Emma have it. Moving date for her is July 22nd, not ideal as far as I’m concerned, since I get back to Heathrow on Sunday the 20th! I will be jet-lagged and not quite with it while all that is going on around me, & it also means of course that I have to find somewhere else to live. This will not be easy, since the minimum rental is 6 months I believe & I’m not home for that long. Will have to be an overlap I think, always costly. Thought briefly about staying on in Thame with Paul, Emma’s ‘lodger’, but he doesn’t pay enough and anyway the house is too big for 2, and I want to be on my own again! I wonder why? Scoured the Internet & decided that Buckingham or thereabouts is possibly the place to go, not too far from Emma & family, nice place, and cheaper since no train station. Has a Tesco’s and a sort of university though, so some sort of employment should be possible. Also, not very far from Milton Keynes, where there must be work, but would need a car for that. Raised with Emma the possibility of her giving me her car, as part of the vast amount she ‘owes’ me, I keep a book, but didn’t really think I’d need to call on it till much later in life! It might be possible, since it’s looks as though she’s going to get a new job, in the same company, which comes with a company car. However, my ex bought her the car, so could be complicated!
Had the engineers survey report on the house site before I went way, & was hoping to see some progress while I was away. Fortunately the site is not in a ‘specific’ wind zone, which would mean extra strengthening, but only in a ‘very High’ wind zone apparently. I’m a bit surprised by this, but on their heads be it. I’m sure the council will check when they submit the plans anyway. Talking of which, Carrus, the developers of the whole sub-division, who have final say on plans, have just rejected a Golden Home plan submitted by a colleague of my sister’s, on the grounds that it’s ‘too ordinary’. Discussed this with my contact Wayne, who says that Carrus are very inconsistent, and they have accepted other Golden Homes plans. Mine is not visible from the road, it’s down a right-of-way, so he doesn’t think it’s a problem. I will be going next Tuesday to discuss ‘definite’ dates with him, hopefully things will then start moving at last!
Forgot to mention before, but needed to see the chiropractor 3 times the week before we went away. Erola recommended hers, a guy called Harry, she would’ve chosen him, he’s about 50 & very good-looking! Didn’t seem to do me much good, I’m having problems in the clavicle region, he says it’s trapped nerves, all I know is that it’s very painful! Existed on Neurofen & Panadol on the holiday, & then went again this week 3 times to his locum, since Harry’s gone to the UK on hols. The locum is rather a brusque woman, and she doesn’t seem to have done any good either. She suggested swimming, particularly backstroke, & since that’s the only stroke I can swim with any proficiency anyway I shall have to do it I think. There’s a swimming pool in Raumati so I’ll start going next week! Heaving up wood from under the house every weekend isn’t helping, but I’m still not lighting the fire till at least 4 each day. I stay in my cosy dressing gown till quite late in the morning, and then chase the sunshine round the house! I also go for my walk of course, which does warm me up. Must start expeditions to free places, but petrol going up all the time. Not as bad as the UK, but now over $2 a litre, expensive by comparison when NZ wages are a third of ours. No protests here though!
Saturday Erola, Hilary & I went to see ‘Second-Hand Wedding’, a lovely film set locally in Paraparaumu, so of course all the audience watched all the credits right through to see if they recognised anyone. Erola knew some of the actors of course. Hilary & I thought it was really good, Erola thought it was rather slow-moving. Then we all went for a curry at an Indian restaurant in Mana, which Hilary hadn’t been to since she lived in Whitby, but said was very good. Well, the food was, though not at all like ‘English Indian’, but the service was appalling, they seemed to be concentrating on take-ways and forgot about us sitting upstairs.
Had the engineers survey report on the house site before I went way, & was hoping to see some progress while I was away. Fortunately the site is not in a ‘specific’ wind zone, which would mean extra strengthening, but only in a ‘very High’ wind zone apparently. I’m a bit surprised by this, but on their heads be it. I’m sure the council will check when they submit the plans anyway. Talking of which, Carrus, the developers of the whole sub-division, who have final say on plans, have just rejected a Golden Home plan submitted by a colleague of my sister’s, on the grounds that it’s ‘too ordinary’. Discussed this with my contact Wayne, who says that Carrus are very inconsistent, and they have accepted other Golden Homes plans. Mine is not visible from the road, it’s down a right-of-way, so he doesn’t think it’s a problem. I will be going next Tuesday to discuss ‘definite’ dates with him, hopefully things will then start moving at last!
Forgot to mention before, but needed to see the chiropractor 3 times the week before we went away. Erola recommended hers, a guy called Harry, she would’ve chosen him, he’s about 50 & very good-looking! Didn’t seem to do me much good, I’m having problems in the clavicle region, he says it’s trapped nerves, all I know is that it’s very painful! Existed on Neurofen & Panadol on the holiday, & then went again this week 3 times to his locum, since Harry’s gone to the UK on hols. The locum is rather a brusque woman, and she doesn’t seem to have done any good either. She suggested swimming, particularly backstroke, & since that’s the only stroke I can swim with any proficiency anyway I shall have to do it I think. There’s a swimming pool in Raumati so I’ll start going next week! Heaving up wood from under the house every weekend isn’t helping, but I’m still not lighting the fire till at least 4 each day. I stay in my cosy dressing gown till quite late in the morning, and then chase the sunshine round the house! I also go for my walk of course, which does warm me up. Must start expeditions to free places, but petrol going up all the time. Not as bad as the UK, but now over $2 a litre, expensive by comparison when NZ wages are a third of ours. No protests here though!
Saturday Erola, Hilary & I went to see ‘Second-Hand Wedding’, a lovely film set locally in Paraparaumu, so of course all the audience watched all the credits right through to see if they recognised anyone. Erola knew some of the actors of course. Hilary & I thought it was really good, Erola thought it was rather slow-moving. Then we all went for a curry at an Indian restaurant in Mana, which Hilary hadn’t been to since she lived in Whitby, but said was very good. Well, the food was, though not at all like ‘English Indian’, but the service was appalling, they seemed to be concentrating on take-ways and forgot about us sitting upstairs.
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