A little bit of Kiwi

[Papillon]

hey kiwis or wanna be kiwis

here is a thread for us to chat on

about anything really!

Hi MrsJohnCusack & others!

My Hubby is a Geophysicist! yep you probably had one for Christmas too and it broke!
Seismic processing for the oil and Gas industry! it's also what I do part time, plus 3 children, but I would love to move more into the Earthquake monitoring side. I hear you have a few more of them then good old blighty!! Oh and some volcanoes too?

That is brill new 'H' festivalisng we shall go.
Really sorry I couldn't have caught up with you in Wellie Anniemac, maybe next time.
Zoe, I'm pretty sure an friend if mine up the coast is a geowatsiter, she's from uk origionally too, I think her hubby is on a pretty good wage by NZ standards. I have just spent a two weeks in Wellington, it's a great city, got a really good feel to it, although I'm glad to be going back up the coast next week as the city holds far too much temptation for me and I shall return with new clothes and a bad bank balance!! Also I like the pace of life in Kapiti, Wellington is not fast by any means compared to a Uk city but it all becomes relative somehow, oh yes the weather is a bit crap here too much wind, is better up the coast. Lots of kids stuff going on though but that seems to be true wherever you go in NZ very family orientated.
Ooh OOh Paps (sorry can't help calling you that) festie we will go go, festie we will goe tee tum, I am excited!!

oh yes, we do have earthquakes! felt our first one a couple of months ago, was lying on the sofa when a ripple went right under the whole house - a very strange feeling. And have seen Ruapehu (prob spelt wrong) smoking away merrily on the North Island too. Lots of seismic activity here for you and your DH Zoe!

Papillon !!!

Have you left yet?... I have a sneaky suspicion you have ....

Hi Papillon
Do I remember right that you are from Hawkes Bay? I may have to go there with work shortly I usually flly into Napier then head up to Hastings, if I stay I stay in Havelock North. How long are you here for?

Hi All
Am in San Francisco, bloody tired. Lovely to see my brother and his family

Sibble I will be in Hawkes Bay from 18 January. Email me, if you are heading my way... gosh would be great to finally meet you!!

Have a good flight maskedposter

hi all, I must say it's really nice to be back up the coast after my stay in Wellington, so much more relaxed here and the weather's better. Ah Papillon, in must be great to be with your Brother and finally meet your little niece, have a really great time and see you soon.
Where do you hale from Maskedposter and is that where you shall be staying on your visit home?

kjm did you see this excema thread\

not looked through it but might have some wisdom for you there

this

masked poster is from Tauranga (just in case she does not post) hopefully catch with her in Tauranga... is just one mumsnet meetup after another for me.. sigh its a hard life

ds has conjunctivits atm... got it on the flight grrrr he looks like a geisha girl when he wakes up !!!!

Papillon!

hope the travels are going well!

I am getting excited now (and just a tad apprehensive!!) but I will try to keep checking on here (and my e-mails - although I don't know how successful I will be on the e-mail front ,,,) and hopefully catch up with you in Tauranga!

Please make sure the sun is shining in NZ when you get there as I really don't want to fly across the world for a month of rain!!

Hello all, thanks for the link to the excema thread Papillon, very helpfull. It is one vehicle per stall for festie so thumbs up for Bertha (our car shall stay in carpark). Have been painting our sign today it is good to get creative again. Sorry to hear about your Ds's eyes, have you tried eyebright/euphrasia off. drops, one of those wondercures IME.
Good luck with your travels ladies, I shall be having a word with the weather for you, actually it's really picked up, still abit overcast at times in our part, but so much warmer.

thanks for keeping an eye on the weather sitaution for us kjaysmum!

just a quick Kapiti weather report, WOW!!!!!!
My goodness this country shows off when the sun shines. Crystal clear sky, bright blue sea, deep red pohutakawa ahhhh lovely

good to hear the sun is out... must have heard the sun deprived northerners were about to arrive!

Maskedposter will you have a mobile while in NZ ?? I have mine. Could you email me a phone number so that I could contact you? Am abit squashed for time today but will send you my digits once in NZ

Have a good flight

and kjm will be taking to you soon !

oh and thanks for the eyebright/euphrasia tip kjm... remember those... think ds is just plain knackered hence having irritated eyes as i am feeling abit the same and he does not seem to passing the infection to anyone.

hopefully some good sleeps in the country air will see him come right. will take him to the doctor too can't be showing off my boy in gunked up state!

Have good flights everybody. Can vouch for the weather, the sun is out out out and it's great summer is here at last.

Paps - chamomile (either infused loose leaf - best - or tea bags) is great for conjuncitivis. If it doesn't clear up you need something stronger but it usually works on my boys.

If anybody ventures north to Auckland look me up too. Am meeting nickiw as soon as we can get a date together. Can't wait to meet another mnetter.

Hi Sibble, where abouts in Auckland are you? We shall be near Auckland in Feb would love to meet up for a cuppa if we get close to your area

Hi, we are in Whitford, about 20-30 mins south. Would love to meet up when you are up here.

Ok I shall run that by my Dp who has much more idea of where we are going and let you know if we'll be in the area, I hope so.

Hi all... considering a move to NZ and would welcome advice about documentation needed, healthcare, work and so on from other Brits who moved there recently and can advise of pit falls adn the like. Don´t even know which area to look at yet.. Thanks.

Man is it good to be home

Sibble thanks for the reminder about chamomile tea, had totally forgotten about that. Used it tonight as he is still just a tad gluey about the eyes.

We are all having fabulous time. dd is daily becoming a better trampolinist. lots of spa pool action. Great friends of mine were here to welcome me back to whanau lands. I cried buckets of joyful tears.

kjm will ring you very soon

just missed you on here paps, look forward to your call, ahhh sounds wonderful for you
Hi charliedane, as I moved over with my Kiwi Dp and our son is a citizen therefor I don't have much experience on some aspects of immigration i.e the points system.
The website to go to is...www.immigration.govt.nz.
It does seem to me that the people who applied before they left UK received residency much quicker than those of us who applied once here.
I am so happy here, but haven't experienced the wrench of being so far away if anything happens yet and hope I won't! Hope that helps

Thanks Kjays mum... a lot of people say that it is great in summer but very cold in winter because the houses have very poor insulation. Is that so?

hmm well I guess that depends how old your house is, I think they cottoned onto the fact that New Zealand is actually quite near the south pole when they changed the building codes in 1978 so all new houses required thermal insulation. We are renting an old summer house which is lovely but was bloody freezing last winter, we are moving before next winter!! They call NZ the country of four seasons in one day, this is very true. We live on the west coast and I hear the east coast gets more sunshine. My goodness it blows me away though, we went for a drive into the hills today the native bush is outstanding, the flowers here are incredible, bird life fantasticunfortunately in some areas humans have destroyed much of the native habitat which we are desperately trying to claw back by preserving what's left and regrowing where possible

What airlines do you guys mostly use from UK to NZ? Who is cheapest?