Jack The Lad

Yeah I think so. Maybe gonna book it all tomorrow. Will have a chat tonight with my missus when she gets back from work

Plan now is for me to hire a budget car. I wanted a campervan with a toilet ect. but the cost :scared:

So now its a hire car, buy a tent and rough it for 17 days and piss in a bucket

Maz

Understand, Jack. How many kiddos and how old? We have one 5-year old and we don't have anyone for her to stay with (MIL is unwilling for more than a few hours) and I think I'd miss her too much (daughter, not MIL... ha ha ) anyway.

My MIL is more understanding than my parents. We live literally 1 mile from my MIL and she's moving in at the end of the month for a few months, pending the completion of her new house. My parents want to see if we'd move to Europe. We have their only grandchild, and despite the fact that they pushed me out the door as soon as possible when it was time to send me away to college (actually they wanted to send me to boarding school from 11 on, I hated that idea, felt pushed away), they now want us near them. I don't think they realise how much England has changed since I lived there, and I don't want my daughter growing up there.

I just hit upon a way to get us over there faster... I have company shares I can sell. Woo hoo! That will pay for 2 of our tickets. I put in very little per month, and regularly forget about the shares, but this will make it easier, for sure.

sky

That'll certainly get rid of the rose tints then :scared:

kwprwn

would definitely recommend a visit to see what things are like etc

ok something to cheer you up

we have just bought a house here and here is something that never even crossed my mind

EARTHQUAKE COVER :eek

why dont they just throw volcano cover in, seeing as though they expect Auckland to turn into one great big volcano at some stage or another

hope you feel better soon, am sure your parents will come round to your way of thinking, after all it is your lives not theirs, there are times in life when you have to be selfish

Maz

Thank you for selling the idea of living in Wellington to me! LOL

kwprwn

they still get earthquakes in wellington you know :scared:

and I am sure we can find a small volcanoe or two for you.....

Jack The Lad

Liv's 2 and Louis is 6.

My mum will be retireing next year (she could now but....) and they have a house in France and will be over there for 2 weeks out of every month. Yet we are wrong for going to NZ

Parents

Jude J

A little tornado would be nice. Nothing too dramatic, but I would love to see one. One day last summer we were at a friends house having a bbq, the clouds that day were particularly amazing, my parents were on hols with us at the time and all of us were looking at the sky. Either later that day or the next day we found out there had been a big water spout thingy out in the gulf, if we had been at ours we probably would have seen it
We dont have a survival pack but shane brought a wind-up radio, which he said would be usefull in an emergency. So we might starve but at least we can do it listening to The Edge or something!

poppets

oh yes the earth moves down here too!! , most of them you don't notice though we've only felt about 2 in 6/7 months
http://www.geonet.org.nz/recent_quakes.html

Maz

Oh granted I know there are quakes all over, but isn't Auckland built on something silly like 48 volcanoes?

SirEglamore

We did it in March/april. Kids with mother, Hire car for me and OH, backpacked round Sth Island for 3 weeks. altogether spent about £2250 including flights. great holiday and we saw enough for it to be what we wanted. Do it

BEVS

Must get me one of them.

We've a survival pack and stores but I keep dipping into 'em. I also forget to renew the water in the containers.

We've felt three earthquakes in two and a half years. Husband was up for experiencing an earthquake tremor until he felt the first one, then he went right off the idea.

Where are you heading for Jack Daws?


Are there other folks your children could stay with aside from your parents?

kwprwn

something like that

makes you wonder why you moved here or even want to move here????

puzzling questions that you dont really have an answer too

kwprwn

I have an awesome picture of a tornado/water spout that my toyboy sent me when he was working in Corfu, but it is on my home pc, will have to email it to my work email address and post it on here...at least I think I still have the picture

we dont have a survival pack, but maybe we should do...
those adverts on the tv make me laugh as it makes you wonder, would you really want to listen to the radio to tell you that the country is exploding under a volcano...could be a kind of scary scenario

Jude J

You have a toyboy, you little minx?

not sure what I would do in the case of a big earthquake, I have a feeling my house would collapse without much effort... so I'm not sure we need a survival pack!! sorry, I suppose I ought to take it seriously sometime.