Things you would never have done before you got to NZ - downbeat stuff
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I know not where this place even is, yet I can hear it - just another normal Saturday night in suburbia.

#122

Woken up on a Sunday morning and realised there is nowhere within a 3 hr drive where you havent already been and it was dull or anywhere you actually havent been but want to go.

#123

Put on extra clothes - socks, jumpers, anorak- to go to bed.
Admittedly this is before I built myself a proper English house made of brick and with insulation and double glazing.
Admittedly this is before I built myself a proper English house made of brick and with insulation and double glazing.

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Went to Hawkes Bay the weekend wemt out friday and saturday but the bars were Dead and full of dull Men watching Rugby 
was home by 10pm and watched a movie with some wine at my friends house


was home by 10pm and watched a movie with some wine at my friends house

#125
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being colder in the house than outside
wiping mould off the windows and the bathroom roof (haven't done that since 1986)
having to cook so much due to the lack of ready meals (that's actually good for our health if not good for my time management!)
having to take out a second mortgage for toiletries, clothes and shoes
having to deal with blank stares when people don't realise I'm Scottish and I start to speak....
Once the new house is built though...and that's something we would never have been able to do in the UK, not with the view we're getting.
wiping mould off the windows and the bathroom roof (haven't done that since 1986)
having to cook so much due to the lack of ready meals (that's actually good for our health if not good for my time management!)
having to take out a second mortgage for toiletries, clothes and shoes
having to deal with blank stares when people don't realise I'm Scottish and I start to speak....
Once the new house is built though...and that's something we would never have been able to do in the UK, not with the view we're getting.

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Thing I'm looking forward to the most (apart from warmth and no mould and clean, fresh kitchen) is a fenced garden for the dogs. Can just let them out!!
The rental in the UK had ducks living next door...not good when you have german shorthaired pointers!

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Just to put a more realistic perspective on it, the body of this Aussie invader (whitetail) is only 1.5 cms long, and the leg diameter is 2.8 cms. And in 50 years I've never seen one. Of more ugliness and more plentiful is the native Weta (especially if you live around bush), which are hideous creatures.

As for Wetas they're not at all ugly, they're magnificent animals and was always delighted to come across one in the garden.
New Zealand does have some native poisonous spiders of its own, they're not all exotic imports from warmer climes like the Redback and the Whitetail. The NZ Katipo has been known to take a few people unawares
http://www.eturbonews.com/16139/kati...-tourist-penis
