{"id":602,"date":"2010-02-23T18:41:21","date_gmt":"2010-02-23T05:41:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.bagendbabe.co.uk\/?p=602"},"modified":"2010-03-27T21:25:07","modified_gmt":"2010-03-27T08:25:07","slug":"tue-23-feb-10","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.bagendbabe.co.uk\/?p=602","title":{"rendered":"Tue 23 Feb 10"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Lots of job hunting over the last couple of days, looks like the job market is picking up a little bit! Here&#8217;s hoping there aren&#8217;t enough Kiwis to fill all the posts!!<\/p>\n<p>After a couple more job applications this morning, off to Kaitoke National Park on a bike trip today.<\/p>\n<p>Another trip over Paekakariki Hill to stop over for a latte at Ground Up in Pauatahanui. The wind was a bit strong on the second bit going up the Hutt Valley today, Louise got blown all over the place!<\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;ve stayed away from Kaitoke up until now, because she couldn&#8217;t face the thought of having to leave New Zealand and a bit more of her heart at Kaitoke &#8211; and there wouldn&#8217;t be much left to take back to the UK!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.bagendbabe.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/Ride-23Feb-2.JPG\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-603\" title=\"Ride 23Feb (2)\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.bagendbabe.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/Ride-23Feb-2-100x100.jpg\" alt=\"Ride 23Feb (2)\" width=\"100\" height=\"100\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.bagendbabe.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/Ride-23Feb.JPG\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-604\" title=\"Ride 23Feb\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.bagendbabe.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/Ride-23Feb-100x100.jpg\" alt=\"Ride 23Feb\" width=\"100\" height=\"100\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.bagendbabe.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/Ride-23Feb-4.JPG\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-605\" title=\"Ride 23Feb (4)\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.bagendbabe.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/Ride-23Feb-4-100x100.jpg\" alt=\"Ride 23Feb (4)\" width=\"100\" height=\"100\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>We came back down the Hutt Valley again &#8211; the Akatarawa Rd is closed for repairs for 3 days! I pulled away to cross over to Pauatahanui first, to stretch the bike&#8217;s legs a bit&#8230;&#8230;..<\/p>\n<p>Unfortunately, I got the comms a bit wrong&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;.as Louise never turned up!!<\/p>\n<p>She didn&#8217;t have her mobile this time &#8211; the last time that&#8217;s gonna happen!! &#8211; so I had no idea where she was. I did go around the lake to Paremata both ways, but couldn&#8217;t find her, so was getting just a little bit worried!!<\/p>\n<p>I drove like a devil over to the Hutt Vallley and back, checking the sides of the road for a wrecked bike and rider&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;..<\/p>\n<p>In the end, I gave up and hot-footed over the Paekakariki Hill in record time to find Louise waiting on the veranda bench wondering where I was! Phew!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lots of job hunting over the last couple of days, looks like the job market is picking up a little bit! Here&#8217;s hoping there aren&#8217;t enough Kiwis to fill all the posts!! After a couple more job applications this morning, off to Kaitoke National Park on a bike trip today. Another trip over Paekakariki Hill [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-602","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-emigrating"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.bagendbabe.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/602","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.bagendbabe.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.bagendbabe.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bagendbabe.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bagendbabe.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=602"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bagendbabe.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/602\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":607,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bagendbabe.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/602\/revisions\/607"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.bagendbabe.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=602"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bagendbabe.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=602"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bagendbabe.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=602"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}