{"id":791,"date":"2010-08-29T23:10:06","date_gmt":"2010-08-29T10:10:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.bagendbabe.co.uk\/?p=791"},"modified":"2010-08-29T23:13:00","modified_gmt":"2010-08-29T10:13:00","slug":"sun-29-aug-2010","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.bagendbabe.co.uk\/?p=791","title":{"rendered":"Sun 29 Aug 2010"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ok, so I suck at keeping up the blog when the going gets a bit busy.<\/p>\n<p>Decision made!<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ll start filling in the blog again, from today, and backfill as I go along and get the time&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p>As you may have gathered from the fact that you haven&#8217;t seen us around in the UK, we&#8217;re still in New Zealand! We both now have work permits, we&#8217;ve bought a house and car and I&#8217;m working in Wellington while Louise is donning her decorators garb nearly every day to &#8220;freshen up&#8221; the house!<\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;ve just had a lovely weekend. Watched a few films in bed on Friday evening, and on Saturday we visited the RSA (Returned Services Association) in Paraparaumu and signed up for membership (cheaper drinks, a restaurant, snooker tables, carpet bowls, cards, big TV, trips away, housie and very friendly patrons), went shopping to Otaki where Louise found some boots she&#8217;d seen back when her Mum was here on holiday in March for a mere $50 per pair &#8211; they&#8217;d been sale in March for $310 a pair. Bargain!<\/p>\n<p>We went shopping to Mitre 10 Mega in Petone today. Mainly for paint, but also lunch and a few DIY knick-knacks&#8230;&#8230;. We left there a few hours later and popped into Wellington to see the film &#8220;Inception&#8221;. Our heads were hurting when we got out LOL, but a great film! On the plus side, despite being a capital city, we&#8217;d got a parking place on the opposite side of the road to the cinema complex and whats more, for free!! Long may Wellington be so easy to visit on a weekend&#8230;..<\/p>\n<p>Back this evening for a quick chat with Louise&#8217;s parents and a watching eye on Skype to see if Mitch gets online&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;no luck so far  <img src='https:\/\/blog.bagendbabe.co.uk\/wp-content\/plugins\/tango-smileys-extended\/tango\/frown.png' alt='Frown' title='Frown' class='tse-smiley' height='16' width='16' \/><\/p>\n<p>Our container is now on board the MSC Martina heading towards Bluff on South Island. We should actually have all our stuff sometime in the next two weeks! Hurrah!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ok, so I suck at keeping up the blog when the going gets a bit busy. Decision made! I&#8217;ll start filling in the blog again, from today, and backfill as I go along and get the time&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;. As you may have gathered from the fact that you haven&#8217;t seen us around in the UK, we&#8217;re [&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-791","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\/791","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=791"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bagendbabe.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/791\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":794,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bagendbabe.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/791\/revisions\/794"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.bagendbabe.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=791"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bagendbabe.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=791"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bagendbabe.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=791"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}