The last few weeks have been again quite busy with us working to bring the house back to a home.
The changes following the Councils approval have been made and the decorators here and should finish by the end of the week and that will be it.
The new cinema room, dubbed the 'Colluseam' has been a great success. To set it up looked easy only in practise it was not and so we called in outside help and now it all runs very well indeed. What a difference good equipment makes to a film, now in High Definition as well as surround 5.1 sound. The gunfire sounds almost real.
We can now start entertaining again having been unable for the past year. Having said that we are off the New Zealand at the end of October and will return early March. We will be staying in DoubtlessBay in the North Island about 5 hours from Auckland at a friend's house whilst they are touring South America.. We shall use part of February to tour some places in South island and will try to return to some of the most beautiful locations on earth.
Its perhaps a shame to leave the house but the weather in winter is not great and if the summer this year is anything to go by then winter will be a disaster. And so we planned the NZ trip. We will again go via Hong Kong but only stop off for one night to give us a break in this long journey. We have booked seats on Air New Zealand and so hope to have a comfortable flight.
We had a BBQ for some of the builders who helped on the house about one week ago and that was good and so know we come to the end of this house development and the outcome was great and we are more than satisfied. The costs however was more than we planned but I suppose this happens in building.
We may try a short weekend somewhere in the caravan before the end of October but lets see how the next couple of weeks go
