Because we won't be taking the PC to NZ this trip and whilst I might check into a few Internet Cafes etc, we definitely won't be buying another PC just yet.

So for those who (reasonably enough) judge I am posting mostly garbage, the end is in sight! (About 15th September.)

Good onya, Alex.

Seeya, maties.

PS - Good old Bob Hope

And your garbage is for ever more......evermore

Don't be a pillock....keep posting??????


Cheers

What can I say? My Kiwi-to-be sons need some kind of online legacy to keep them going when the Kiwi fruit run dry.

I hope our children (eventually) respect and love us for the big changes we are making in our lives.

Garbage and waffle makes the world go round! Keep posting Don, I've lost count of the number of times you've made me laugh lately!

Yeah right. Sounds about as convincing as a 'Wilf will post no more' post. Bob hope...no hope.

I think you said they were three-ish? That is a pretty good age to move. Much better than moving ten years down the line!!

Don't be silly Don. Your posts are of good intention 99% of the time. Its only when you get in with the wrong un's that you lose your 1%. Keep posting Don - you make us all laugh.

Whisky

I find this a real insult- Chinese Gooseberry -to-be-sons please. How politically incorrect!

After all they originated from China not NZ ( the fruit not your
sons) !!!

2.7 and 0.7, I do sometimes wonder if they'll leave us for years and years when I am pushing into my sixties, ie they'll be into their twenties and probably wanting to live in Europe for a bit (I know I would in their position.) That'd be really sad and I guess enough to make me move back to Europe to be near them in my dotage. Wouldn't be so bad if I'd started the family earlier but I guess like many these days I left it all a bit late.

Perhaps we could come to an arrangement Don! I've got 2 daughters(2.10 & 1) and a son(3.10) so if we pair my girls with your boys then they'd more than likely stay put in NZ, so you and I have not to worry about them buggering off to Europe in their twenties

Yeah, thats a worry to a few of us I bet, but look at the fantastic upbringing they will have, and when they want to start their own families they'll be more and likely coming home to NZ, like so many others do, because they know where the best place is to bring up kids

Don your numerous posts have been v.helpful and any others recently I would guess, are down to you being demob happy, you know your nearly at the finishing line, the end of one journey and the start of another

Remember that first day when you logged on to this forum? Seems a long time ago I bet

Just keep in touch when you can in NZ, perhaps a few of us could all meet up eventually and have a right good knees up.

And anyway Don, you have been given your own Avatar, so you can't go now.

Whisky

I'd marry them off no problem!

Sorry about what I do know have been some stupid/ less than amusing (but hopefully not unpleasant!) posts as I go a bit stir crazy waiting to go to NZ, well, you can't win them all. Does it help my case if I say I am in a bit of Europe that isn't that brilliant to live in as an expat? 6 years and counting.

You're waffling again Don - its 6 weeks till you go!

Alex