British Expats - Search Results
British Expats

Go Back  British Expats > Search Forums
Reload this Page >

Search Results

Register
FAQ
Wikiposts
Today's Posts
Search
Vendor Directory
Search: Posts Made By: kiwiblossom
Showing results 1 to 11 of 11
Search took 0.10 seconds.
Forum: New Zealand
May 5th 2007, 12:06 pm
Replies: 2
Views: 424
Posted By kiwiblossom

Re: Locksmith info in NZ?

My favourite locksmith does a great job with elderly people, fitting grilles or latches to windows, cat-doors to doors, making ranch sliders secure, sorting out garage doors (i.e. fixing locks but...
Forum: New Zealand
Apr 30th 2007, 10:27 pm
Replies: 26
Views: 6,181
Posted By kiwiblossom

Re: Does it always rain?

http://www.arc.govt.nz/arc/environment/water/rainfall.cfm
There you go then, nice map showing distribution of rainfall in the Auckland area. I used to live in an area that was consistently fine when...
Forum: New Zealand
Feb 1st 2007, 4:14 am
Replies: 23
Views: 1,097
Posted By kiwiblossom

Re: OMG - Parents!

I well remember when I told my mother I was leaving New Zealand...she promptly gave me a cat!:rofl:
Forum: New Zealand
Nov 22nd 2006, 9:55 am
Replies: 33
Views: 1,663
Posted By kiwiblossom

Re: anyone speak japanese??? name for our puppy?

>>How to say it<<

You do realize that you would be calling your dog "balls" , right? As in block and tackle? :rolleyes: :) Not as in pawn shop etc? If you had Japanese neighbors, they wouldn't be...
Forum: New Zealand
Nov 22nd 2006, 9:36 am
Replies: 33
Views: 1,663
Posted By kiwiblossom

Re: anyone speak japanese??? name for our puppy?

Kin
Means gold. Quite OK to use it as a name, just as it is.

Kin-chan (little Kin, for a girl dog)
Kin-kun (little Kin, for a boy dog...)

Kingyo, goldfish - for a very small dog?!

Kintama,...
Forum: New Zealand
Oct 14th 2006, 2:46 pm
Replies: 75
Views: 3,472
Posted By kiwiblossom

Re: British Food in NZ

Sky - the place to find dried peas might be a health shop or an Indian grocer's. Last few times I've been in NZ I've been really puzzled at the absence of dried peas and beans at the supermarket.
...
Forum: New Zealand
Sep 30th 2006, 1:24 am
Replies: 9
Views: 577
Posted By kiwiblossom

Re: Manurewa High School

My son went to James Cook briefly in 2005, and has friends there now.
Unbelievably, it was safer and offered better learning opportunities than the public school he attends full time in Japan. (I...
Forum: New Zealand
Jul 5th 2006, 10:19 pm
Replies: 55
Views: 2,714
Posted By kiwiblossom

Re: hehe... a moan.....too many ants!

Ants - this always catches me by surprise when I'm back in NZ too.
Some years are definitely worse than others...
I've found that the tiny ants tend to come in from outside, so follow the trail and...
Forum: Far East and Asia
Mar 25th 2006, 10:35 pm
Replies: 15
Views: 2,643
Posted By kiwiblossom

Re: Aviation

I think you'd have trouble getting work with a small airline, unless you speak some Japanese.

I do some work for a major airline and they do indeed hire foreign pilots, but mostly to work as...
Forum: New Zealand
Mar 25th 2006, 10:28 pm
Replies: 16
Views: 942
Posted By kiwiblossom

Re: packing clothes

Yes, tooanfrom is right. They occur more in March than in April.

Heritage Inn is a good solid motor inn/motel, from memory.

Biggest shopping between the Airport and the Southern Motorway is...
Forum: New Zealand
Mar 25th 2006, 12:46 pm
Replies: 16
Views: 942
Posted By kiwiblossom

Re: packing clothes

Arriving in April...think "equinoctial storms"...though they will be tailing off by then, and if you are lucky, you will strike fine, mild weather in May. And then it will pour all winter...

On...
Showing results 1 to 11 of 11


 
Forum Jump

Contact Us - Archive - Advertising - Cookie Policy - Privacy Statement - Terms of Service -

Copyright © 2024 MH Sub I, LLC dba Internet Brands. All rights reserved. Use of this site indicates your consent to the Terms of Use.