Category: Random

Busy Saturday

Yesterday was a pretty full on day, it started with the Island Bay market day, which was pretty small but neat anyway. Laurel found a fellow refugee from the US selling funnel cakes, and I found a fantastic jar of zucchini pickle.

Next on the agenda was the Greek Food Festival down in the overseas terminal. It was all a bit crowded and almost impossible to navigate with the push chair, but I did manage to buy some fantastic Calamari.

Then it was off to Te Papa for the 10th birthday celebrations. We missed the giant lamington cutting, but saw a awesome steam powered street organ, some Cook Island drummers, and the NZSO playing with Mere Boynton, Whirimako Black, Debra Wai Kapohe and Derek hill. Once again so many people but pretty cool.

Kahurangi’s favourite part of the day, was the big spinning marble ball in the foyer of Te Papa

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He was smacking at it so fast my cheap cellphone camera couldn’t focus fast enough.

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The day ended with the Island Bay Parade, which was even shorter than usual this year. My highlight was the mermaids riding bicycles

A fun Waitangi Day

We had a good day today. We went down to Waitangi park to partake in the fun community activities. Kahurangi loved the tap dancing, and tried his best to dance along with them. I was utterly stoked as there was a stall selling creamed Paua, which is pretty much the best food in the world.  Later in the evening we had a lovely dinner with Matt and Meredith, while mr destructo tried to break their house and vomit chips on Matt’s foot.All in all a great day. 

Friends tell friends to say no to campylobacter

So the blog has been quiet for a while, thats because i’ve basically spent the last 9 days in the bathroom.

Last weekend was Kahurangi’s first birthday party, so on Saturday I took him out to let Laurel have space to get ready for Sunday. We went to a school fair, and I ate something there that must have been left for 12 days to soak in a bucket of bacteria, because by Sunday I was shaking uncontrollably and sweating insanely.
Fearing infecting the other babies and families at the party I spent the day in bed, by Monday morning pretty much everything I ate in the last 17 years had been liquified and passed through my sphincter … at least thats what it felt like. Not pretty let me tell you. I slept Monday night on the floor of the bathroom, waking frequently to moan pitifully and drag myself to the toilet.

It’s now nearly 9 days later and I’m 10kg lighter and still not 100%.

Next time I’m just gonna eat the dodgy looking stuff, instead of trying to be careful, then at least I will have something to blame.

Things that amuse me

You have to take pleasure in the small things that make life enjoyable. Some of the things that make me chuckle is my user I have been using to test Koha 3.0.  Mr Stinky P Clown … he gets debarred from the library quite regularly.

Another source of small pleasure is the myriad of ways people say thanks to the driver as they get off at their stops. Today we had

  • Cheers
  • Thanks mate
  • Ta
  • Chur bro
  • Kia ora (me)
  • And my personal favourite “Love your work”