Finally Movember came to a close. And with it my friend Olivia from work jetted off to Melbourne. She will definitely leave a hole behind her. It’s lovely to meet wonderfully positive and fun people – it always rubs off and leaves everyone feeling happier. It was impossible not to get caught up in her excitement of leaving NZ and travelling about. Why I remember what it was like to leave Ireland all those years ago!. It did give me distinctly itchy feet I must admit. I love travelling and seeing new places (and not working!! :) hehe, ehem… oh to be independently wealthy. There should be a course on that!. Or to be patronised like back in the Renaissance. So if any wealthy benefactors are reading this and want to sponsor me to just really enjoy myself … I am open to offers.
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Right.. back to reality. My boss and friend Andrew asked me to help out at pretty short notice on a kayak race he was helping out with (safety wise). I was to help out where the river went quite close to a submerged tree. Trees + Water + Trapped Kayaker = really bad news (often death!)… so I was there to help direct people to an alternative route. I had a throw bag.. and about 10 mins throwing practice with my friend Dave. Needless to say, me being me, I had nightmares of raging torrents of water with thousands of kayakers rushing down and impaling themselves on the trees.
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In the words of one of the jet boaters (did get a 20 min jet-boat ride out of it!).. it was ‘boring’. In other words there were no deaths, no major accidents.. nothing.. not a sausage. Good job too.
Mark came back from OZ – great to have him back in the house. And my friend Steve Pawson has moved in to one of the other flats. I do sometimes wonder how much longer I will get to live in this slice of (fairly dilapidated) paradise. Still, best not to think about these things as there’s nothing one can really do about it!
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