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#3356764 23-Mar-2025 23:06

We went to a New Zealand expat meet up in the desert last night. There was a family that had just arrived in Dubai who have a house about 500m from our NZ house and whose daughter went to the school my oldest daughter and wife went to when we were in NZ.

It’s so very very New Zealand.

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#3356899 24-Mar-2025 14:28

How peaceful it is when you simply pay no attention to the whole idiotic US circus and the other autocRATS. 🙂

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#3356901 24-Mar-2025 14:37

Ostrich, meet sand.

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#3356904 24-Mar-2025 14:42

Ge0rge:

Ostrich, meet sand.

No, no, the ostrich just doesn't make a fool of itself. 😁 Constant war reported right into the living room doesn't help anyone.

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#3356906 24-Mar-2025 15:05

On a different note:

I am smiling because I am off to see the NZ All Whites play against New Caledonia for a place in the FIFA World Cup.

The winner of this game will be the first team to qualify for the 2026 World Cup.

I genuinely hope and believe it's New Zealand, as the loser must play several other teams in intercontinental playoffs and it's a hard, hard road.

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#3357635 27-Mar-2025 04:27

A fellow countryman of mine actually swims through Cook Street at the wekkend just like that. 😉 We are even from the same tribe of swivel roast barbecuers. 🤣

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#3357637 27-Mar-2025 04:45

Handsomedan:

On a different note:

I am smiling because I am off to see the NZ All Whites play against New Caledonia for a place in the FIFA World Cup.

The winner of this game will be the first team to qualify for the 2026 World Cup.

I genuinely hope and believe it's New Zealand, as the loser must play several other teams in intercontinental playoffs and it's a hard, hard road.

It must have been a cool game to be at and see NZ qualify.

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#3357638 27-Mar-2025 04:45

It's time for 10 days or so off work. It couldn't have come at a better time although I'm not looking forward to waking up at 2am to head to the airport.

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#3357649 27-Mar-2025 07:49

Tinkerisk:

A fellow countryman of mine actually swims through Cook Street ...

I'm mildly impressed🙃

Did Eric Clapton really think she looked wonderful...or was it after the 15th outfit she tried on and he just wanted to get to the party and get a drink?

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#3357881 27-Mar-2025 15:56

Yes, if you „scoundrels“ have nothing to complain about ... 😁 Cook Strait.

I'm very curious to see how you think and write in a foreign, non-Anglophile language.😉

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#3358644 29-Mar-2025 23:15

High speed trains. They really are the nicest way to travel. It’s a shame New Zealand doesn’t have the population to sustain them.

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#3358876 31-Mar-2025 10:18

My eldest son turned 20 over the weekend.

He's turned into a really great young human.

I just wish he'd clean his bloody room.

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#3359453 1-Apr-2025 12:17

Wife and I are doing a UK/Ireland/Europe trip in June/July. Had an email overnight from one of our Ireland hotels saying they have to cancel our booking as they are fully booked for a conference. Then another email an hour later saying as they have just seen it’s our honeymoon they have reinstated and upgraded us. I put that it was a honeymoon in the booking details just in case anyone offered anything lol. No harm in trying.

Technically it kind of is a delayed honeymoon since you couldn’t travel overseas in 2021 when we got married and it’s our first big trip since then, and we didn't really have a proper honeymoon at the time. Slightly confusing few emails to wake up to on April 1st but logging into my account on their website shows the booking is still there. Searching those dates on the website does say nothing available so it must be true.

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#3359457 1-Apr-2025 12:30

Handsomedan:

I just wish he'd clean his bloody room.

Time to kick him out !

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#3359465 1-Apr-2025 12:37

Handsomedan:

My eldest son turned 20 over the weekend.

He's turned into a really great young human.

I just wish he'd clean his bloody room.

That's cool.

On the weekend, La Penguina and myself had a drink at a pub with our oldest lad (19) . Look, we made a grown up !

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