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

[thelittlestkiwi]

Ah, justabout, that sucks. Can you get some more help till it is better?

[WhatSheSaid]

Can ACC help? Friend of mine just broke her wrist and I think she got some help to pay for cleaner/home help? She was going a bit nuts staring at the same 4 walls for 3 wks though, she couldnt really leave the house as they have steep driveway so she couldn't push pram up or down it. Can we help,at all? I could deliver groceries to you or something if that would help. PM me if you need anything (if you can type that much!)

[vvviola]

justabout the feared D&V doesn't appear to have materialised (phew!), so I can't rain more chaos down on you. I'm at Uni for the rest of the week, but home by 3:30 every day, so if there's anything at all I can do, please please just shout!

[WhatSheSaid]

I have to pick dd1 up from kindy at 2.30 Mon pm but could come after that - is that too late?

[vvviola]

justabout do you need help before *WhatShe" gets there on Monday?

I have to be back to collect DD1 at 3, but can certainly be there for a while before...

[xMinerva]

Hello...

Can't remember who asked me on the other thread but yes we've got some areas to check out when we get there. The lovely justabout gave me a starting point.

Sorry to hear about your hand justabout I'd love to offer to help but will be a bit difficult from the UK. Hope you are better soon.

DP just got home from work so only 3 days left for him. The dc and I had our medicals today, jut gotta wait for paperwork to come back and we an lodge our visa applications, (DP has his already).

[WhatSheSaid]

Got the PMs, justabout, also do you know about Parent Port?www.parentport.co.nz/index.htm.

[WhatSheSaid]

Also, if it's a struggle to cook meals (chopping things up etc), Bellyful www.bellyful.org.nz/index.php are fab, I know a few people involved with the west Auckland branch, they have branches all over. They are partly for parents with new babies but also for families with illness/injuries.

[WhatSheSaid]

Bellyful are great, mostly run by mums, they just get together, cook up huge batches of stuff like lasagne and deliver it to anybody who needs it.

[vvviola]

No problem at all justabout, will pm you re arrangements.

Do call Parentport again too - just because you had cause to need them earlier in the year doesn't mean you should be excluded from help now.

Hope you are, at least, not in too much pain.

[xMinerva]

Hey, how are you now justabout? Glad you have offers of help.

I'm waiting for the dc and my medical reports to arrive. I'm hoping nice Mr Postman will have them today. If so I can lodge the application for our visas on Monday. Eeekkkkkk.

Dp's got less than 2 weeks now until he flys. How scary.

[vvviola]

Are all the Aucklanders ok after that storm last night? I swear at one stage it was directly over our house. Have never known anything like it.

And would you believe that the incredible non-sleeping baby slept through it all?! (just did her hourly wake-ups either side of it instead!)

I usually love storms but that one was a bit too intense for me!

[WhatSheSaid]

I didn't hear a storm at all. What time was it?

[vvviola]

Must have been around midnight I guess.

Our house was actually shaking with the thunder!

[WhatSheSaid]

Ok, either we didn't get it where I am or I slept through it.

[vvviola]

Maybe it was our own personal thunderstorm Felt very Old Testament wrath of God...

Do you think I should go to Mass tomorrow just in case it means I'm in the bad books.

[HermioneHatesHoovering]

I didn't hear a thing and apparently it was on top of our house too. I must be near you vvviola!