Things NZ has never heard of
May 17th 2016, 1:39 pm
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Re: Things NZ has never heard of
Anyway, I had some kiwis stay with me for a couple of weeks. The plastic washing up bowel in the sink seemed to be an utter mystery to both of them.
May 17th 2016, 8:54 pm
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LOL, that's something I've always hated. When I married a pom, he would put the bowl in the sink, I would take it out, he would put it in.... He won in the end. It makes sense if you have a really big sink, but our bowl barely fitted and got really dirty. I thought it was unhygienic. Now I live on my own, no bowl!
May 18th 2016, 6:08 am
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May 18th 2016, 6:12 am
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Re: Things NZ has never heard of
So, how many years behind are you over there then?
May 18th 2016, 6:29 am
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Re: Things NZ has never heard of
I think its about 18mths. Ken has only just come back to find out peter is in jail for murder.
Emmerdale - Belle and the Dr have decided to carry on their affair even though they both know that she is only 17 and he is married.
sorry don't watch EastEnders
Emmerdale - Belle and the Dr have decided to carry on their affair even though they both know that she is only 17 and he is married.
sorry don't watch EastEnders
May 19th 2016, 12:15 am
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Re: Things NZ has never heard of
Saying that I went home last November to a cold UK winter and found my parents had upgraded the insulation and central heating at their house. I was so hot I was sleeping with the window open in below zero. So maybe you get used to it. What annoys me is when rentals are let with NO form of heating, seems wrong.
Coffee?!
What the heck! Coffee is one of NZ's draw cards.Gravy - this is a serious make your own thing. Once you do, you'll never want bought stuff again.
There were lots of things I thought lacking in NZ when we arrived nearly a decade ago but the place has changed heaps and now you can get proper cheese, kalamata olives, decent footwear etc., so I'm struggling to think of something.
De-icer! We never did manage to find it!
May 19th 2016, 5:01 am
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Re: Things NZ has never heard of
Woodburner and a heatpump,
how do you get your bathroom warm in the morning unless the heat pump is a ducted multi room jobby ??
I'm moving into my new place on Monday which is currently woodburner only and I don't want to freeze me bits off
how do you get your bathroom warm in the morning unless the heat pump is a ducted multi room jobby ??
I'm moving into my new place on Monday which is currently woodburner only and I don't want to freeze me bits off
May 20th 2016, 2:28 am
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Start with insulation. Forget heating until you have done all you can to insulate cos that will return the $ far quicker. I don't know if you can still get the rebates but I would start by getting as much into the ceiling, walls, and underfloor space as physically possible and then see. Retrofitting insulation into walls is a mare and in the second, old house we bought we put this off. To be done properly involves taking external cladding off or you can get at it from the inside but you have to read up on the really boring membrane stuff and it looked at the time like a right old hassle. Fortunately for us, in Cambridge, boosting the ceiling and underfloor was sufficient. Don't go for the nasty injected stuff without doing some serious research tho - read the BRANZ reports into it ...
May 20th 2016, 9:26 am
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May 29th 2016, 10:48 am
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Re: Things NZ has never heard of
When I lived in NZ in the 90s, I lived very very rural, and there were some phrases I used that used to really confuse the Kiwis. "Haven't got a cats chance" was one of them, their equivalent was "don't have a dog show" neither of which really make any sense anyway.
I remember going into a bottle shop to ask if they had any Boddingtons and being directed to a chemist!
And New Zealanders really can't understand the concept that Britain has so many different regional accents, often within a very short distance of each other. They think New Zealand has regional differences but the only example they can come up with is Southland!
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I remember going into a bottle shop to ask if they had any Boddingtons and being directed to a chemist!
And New Zealanders really can't understand the concept that Britain has so many different regional accents, often within a very short distance of each other. They think New Zealand has regional differences but the only example they can come up with is Southland!
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May 29th 2016, 11:39 pm
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I can hear the Hawke's Bay regional difference too. The trouble is, the population is small and mobile so you need to get to rural, stable population places to hear it. If you spend time in rural Hawke's Bay and then move to the Waikato, meeting born and bred folk from both you can defo hear it.
May 30th 2016, 12:32 am
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Putting different styles or colours of carpet in different rooms! In UK houses this is the norm - your hallway carpet will likely be different to your bedroom carpet etc. In NZ the whole house tends to have the same carpet throughout and grasping the concept of having a different colour some where else is a difficult one for some 
