I was going call my blog, I need a bed but the Cure song kept popping into my head.  I do need a bed and I have been looking on trademe (NZ's equivalent to ebay) and also this one bed in the uk (yes sometimes I like to be decadent and I am getting a little extra on my mortgage so if I want to be extravagent and buy a bed from the other side of the world I can, it will do wonders for my carbon foot print )

Opinions please:

I quite like oak and this would work in my new old house

This is something a bit different and is apparently hand carved in Tanzania (but I prob wont get, as cool as it is, it's not really me)

I like this one and it is reasonably priced (so are the ones above)

I really like this one too but would have to ship it from the UK (just the frame, I would get the mattress here)

yes that's me, sorry folks - despite my mobile broadband I have been awol for awhile...

Last Saturday K and I hitch hiked to Christchurch, I wanted to see my grandfather and K was staying with a friend and her brother (who is the tattooist and he wouldn't tattoo K btw as he said she was too young, hehe but I'm not the bad guy).   I was gonna take the bus but I couldn't face the length of time, I would rather stand at the side of the road than sit in a bus.  Anyhuu we had some interesting rides, the first was a kiwi guy who has been working in Dubai and designing floors 8-22 of that big rotating building they are building.  The second was a women and her two kids, she is a Filipino who has been here 15 years and runs two businesses she started from scratch.  The third was a guy who went to Nelson Boys when I was at Nelson Girls so we knew heaps of the same folk, it was great and the last was this Welsh immigrant who took me right to my  grandfathers door.   Despite it's inherent dangers, I enjoy hitchhiking and the interesting people one meets.

I did manage to get online a little down in Chch but still got a bit behind with myfeeds and comments and when I got back to Nelson I was really busy trying to get my mums cottage ready for tenanting - I still have lots to do *sigh*.

 My uncle who lives in Canada has given me his car!!!  It cost me $400 to get it on the road (warrant, registration, road user charges (its diesel) etc).  Bloody great.  Thanks Unc!!  I will have to send him a thank you package with kiwi food in it (that they can't get in Canada) - stuff like vegemite, pineapple lumps, peanut slabs etc.  I picked it up from a farm outside of Chch (his wife's family) and there were rats nesting in it.  Ewwww (mind you they are farm rats not sewer rats) I have cleaned it lots and nearly got rid of the smell - it smells like tom cats had a peeing competition.  

 my new car with K and her friend sitting inside.

My sister was down there at cricket camp so we went and watch her play and I took her out to dinner as it was her birthday also AND my brother and sil had their 2nd baby when I was down there so I got to meet her straight away.  yay  I forgot to take photos though.  doh

1) Copy this list into your blog, including these instructions.
2) Bold all the items you’ve eaten.
3) Cross out or underline any items that you would never consider eating.
4) Post a comment here notifying us of your posting of this meme at your profile.

Like Flagday, I have somethings to say so what's in the brackets is mine, like others I don't know what a lot of it is and found it a bit American - not all of us know automatically that PB & J is peanut butter and jelly and some of us call it jam.  Don't even get me started on calling Devonshire tea clotted cream tea, that makes it sound as if clotted cream is in the tea (ewwww). 

With that in mind, here goes with regards to The Omnivore’s Hundred:

Results:
Wow only 27 - that's low, though I found the list quite American with a few things that were American brands or American restaurants that we don't have in the South Pacific (we have our own  so don't really want or need it in case you think we are missing out )

sorry for all the bolded stuff I coudn't unbold I got very frustrated and AnD keeps wanting to download "Microsoft Office XP" with every page I view, is anybody else getting that ?

I had the strangest dream the other night....

I dreamt that the dude who played Greg in Dharma and Greg was the devil and I was his maid  he was kind to me though and I fancied him  and we were going to get married.  I mean WTF I was going to marry the devil?!?!.  Yikes

Anyhu I'm tired of my profile pic but for some reason I can't change it (yes I check that the photo is in the right format).  I select the new photo and then nothing happens.  Oh well, I was in a silly mood and was going to upload a photoshopped me as Wonder Woman (I was overweight when the photo was taken and even though it is just my face it looks ridiculous  hehe)

what is going on - I was going to blog further about the two photos shown but changed my mind and tried to delete them - they don't show in my draft blog but keep showing up when published.  arggggghhhhh

yep I've been offline for nearly two weeks now, man I was having terrible withdrawls.  I have been staying in my mum's cottage getting it ready for new tenants.  The cottage was hit by a drunk driver and it took out the front of it (this happened when I was in Korea).  Thankfully insurance covered (expensive 21st for the driver) all the repairs. 

I have been ripping up carpet and painting (the undamaged bits) and cleaning etc

Of course there is no phone or internet here but as of today I have mobile broadband.  Yeehaaa!!!  Yipee Kaiyay

I have gone through some feeds but probably wont get to the all as there are quite a few.   I hope you are all well.

Here are some photos of the cottage (it is a cute 1870s cottage, consisting of two working mens cottages joined together).  It is also an ice box brrrr, thank god spring is here.    it looks nice from here, what you can't see is the tinny house behind it and the fact that police often watch it (the tinny house not the cottage) from the hill opposite. painters are go Ripping up dirty old carpet is the suckiest job, next time I think I will hire a respirator, the thick clouds of dust and dirt nearly choked me.