Category: New Zealand

June 11, 2005 / New Zealand
June 10, 2005 / New Zealand

Relative newcomers to the gourmet Pizza Wars are Hell Pizzas. I’ve never tried one after initial bad feedback on our local store but they’ve probably raised their game by now.

They’ve set up a poll to judge how people feel about our local politicians which is very clever – take a look, although if you’re not from New Zealand it won’t mean much.

June 8, 2005 / New Zealand

Ok, perhaps I’m contradicting myself because in my last post I was talking about the need to protect our young people but there’s news out today linking Milk and childhood obesity. Surely we don’t have to be worried about Milk?

June 8, 2005 / New Zealand
June 4, 2005 / New Zealand

It’s Saturday morning and you’re lying in bed, trying to block out reality, if soccer is cancelled and there’s no netball because of the long weekend then I reserve the right to be slothful and get up late!

So why do I feel uncomfortable by the snippets of conversation reaching my ears…

May 31, 2005 / New Zealand

I’m banging my head against a brick wall here but trying to get help for a diabetic is really hard. I’m working with the local rep frm Diabetes NZ to try and find out what my family can do.

The standard info, though, seems to be look only at exercise, nutrition and medication.

May 30, 2005 / New Zealand

ER

I just had the joy of spending the night at North Shore Hospital. My Mother had had a fall and needed to be checked out.

May 30, 2005 / New Zealand

Like most people I use Google to search for information. Unlike most New Zealander’s I use google.com not google.co.nz but today I was looking for some NZ info so thought I use the local version with “pages from NZ selected”.