WHERE'S BEST TO LIVE IN NZ AND WHAT DO WE NEED TO KNOW: PART4!!!

[AngryBeaver]

Arrgh,had to start a new thread!

Yes,you can get more land in Tauranga. Well,somewhere like Omokoroa or somewhere.Wouldn't want to live much closer than that. And I woulkdn't want to live at he Mount. Lovely as it is. Too touristy,imo.
We would like enough land for a pool (eventually) maybe a sleepout and still enough for a veggie patch and garden for kids. Don't neeed acres +. Wouldn't say no though,if we could afford it! Be nice to have a few sheep or something/

I think Mum would have to fly to Tauranga. So that would be
Manchester-London,London-Singapore, Singapore-Aukland,Aukland- Tauranga
Bad.

justa howws the back? Hope physio was a help,we may have driven past you!
Your house sounds great.
My mums friend lives in Silverdale.She has about an acre with some sheep etc
Wasn't overly impressed at but didn't give it a proper look I suppose,just stopped to buy flowers for Mums friend! Always worth another look

Nice, Sibble, enjoy the shopping.

Hhm, two sleeps for us but I'm doing two weeks solo while staying with my folks. Who are not terrible keen on children. Gulp. I wonder if the two solo weeks is grounds for making DH look after DD for the whole journey before he heads elsewhere.....

lol, no not american, but DDs last teacher was so i guess she picked it up. DDs class has 11 nationalities in it, and DH and I have lived in 7 countries so far so i imagine our own accents and speech are a real mish mash now. oh no, 8 actually, just did a quick count. we are so looking forawrd to NZ being our 'real' home. bloody hell, no pressure right. what if we hate it

lol, nah itll be ok :-)

good luck sibble and littelest...I'm totally jealous of your shopping opportunities! And the chance to reconnect with the friends and family. Wish I could!
Sorry frick obviously guessed wrongly! You have obviously done your fair share of globe trotting, and I don't blame you for wanting to "settle". I doubt you'll hate it here. If your situation is right (& by that I mainly mean job and house) you will love it

Oh I'm so jealous of the shopping opportunities. And the solo long haul flight (I used to travel a lot in a previous job & used to adore long haul flights by myself)

Summary of paediatrician appt: she was lovely, thorough and reassuring. But game plan seems to be to give up breastfeeding slowly to rule it out as a source of the mystery allergies. I'm not against it in theory - but the practicalities might be tricky, madam knows what she likes

(And North Shore hospital shone in relation to timekeeping again. I was actually walking into the consultation room at my appointment time. )

It?s tomorrow.

OMG it?s tomorrow.

Now if I could only get ds2 to go to bloody sleep, I can run around like a headless chicken remembering things I need to pack.

Got 6 tubes of toothpaste though so thats all good.

How exciting Minerva! We'll wave as we pass in the skys!

I've managed to get bloody food poisoning overnight. Stoopid takeaways are always poisoning me here. Grrr.

There will be 3 of us in the sky possibly crossing paths tomorrow. How weird. I'll be in Singapore if anybody is going that route. 7 hours until I leave for the airport. DS2 keeps crying. Feel very guilty leaving the boys. Although thought trip might be off, ended up in emergency last night with DS2 he had an allergic reaction to something and was covered in hives. Seems OK to day.....

good luck to everyone travelling :-)

The move has commenced.

DH & I may be divorced by the end of the day!

ugh, I feel your pain vviola ,hope you get through it. Very stressful time isn't it. We still haven't found anywhere and have to be out in 5 weeks.
Good luck to all in the air, either coming or going, may all your travels be delay and drama free xx

vvviola, you have my full sympathies

It was all going fine until the crèche called to say DD2 wasn't well. Coughing her poor little lungs out. She won't be able to go in tomorrow, so instead of me going in to uni to finish my assignment & get out of DH, MIL & BIL's way, I'll be wrangling a poorly DD2. probably on no sleep if the evening so far is anything to go by

On the positive side, we did get loads done today & discovered we have a lemon tree and a kiwi fruit tree

MIL just packed up all the baby food and can't remember which box she put it in. What on earth did she expect the poor child to eat - and could she have not checked with me first?

I know she means well, but she's driving me loopy. Not helped by the fact that she talks to DH like he's a teenager just moved out of home.

Deep breaths. Lots of deep breaths. And reminding myself she's actually trying to help

Ah fucking hell,that's no help!! But, it's hard for me to imagine helpful MIL'S,tbh.
Mine is shocking...like- you've just given birth and they sit on the sofa reading the papers asking what is for lunch and could they have a cup of tea-shocking!
I hope you are able to overcome it, she probably has just gone into Packing Mode. Deep breaths!x

Oh,why do they change the tv schedule and not tell you?! Where the chuff is Kath and Kim and Miranda,please and thank you??!!

I was wondering where Kath and Kim was too. We're watching Scarface on 4 instead.

oooohh, TV. now thats a question. is there like, cable type tv? like sky or OSN or similar?

Yes, there's Sky, about 50(?) channels, with Movies, Sports, etc. channels I watch most on it are documentary ones, news, Soho (lots of good mainly US dramas, stuff like The Killing etc). I think you can find enough good programmes if you trawl through them all. 5 kids channels too.

I youtubed Kath n Kim and am watching the Xmas Spesh "look at moy please, look at moooooy!" tee hee
They have Sky but it is about $100 per month as opposed to £20 in UK for a similar package. Everyone says NZ tv is shite, but I manage to find things to watch each night (on my own every night due to Dh's hours)

I think last week's Kath and Kim was the last in that series - wasn't it the one where Sharon marries Shane Warne? Classic.

We pay $70/month for Sky.

Yep, that was last week,so funny! But they don't say it's the last one do they? No announcement at all, same as Aukland Daze, was wa1!iting for that last night and Kath and Kim was on!!Communication ployse,people

I'm feeling very forgiving today AB she did stellar working packing up the kitchen while I pretty much paced around with DD2 who has doubled her limpet-ness this weekend. When I can't find anything for next month the forgiveness may wear off