• My trip to the Scandanavian furniture store

    Morning all, yesterday afternoon I braved a trip to a certain scandanavian furniture store that shall go nameless as they don’t really deserve any more promotion than they already get. After all they are constantly on the telly with their rubbish ads and they even make it into movies. For instance, fight club devotes a…

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  • The Tsunami Army and the Wind Turbine Watch

    Yep, that is a damn clever title. While watching the charity cricket game yesterday (Asian XI vs World XI), we christened ourselves the ‘Tsunami Army‘. Brilliant – of course some were appalled at my lack of pc-ness. But it was all for a good cause. I even came up with some excellent merchandise we could…

  • The art of ‘fitting in’

    While I’m back here in NZ I’m staying with my folks and younger brother. This means that I’m out or being invited out with loads of people I’ve never met before. I guess everyone has different ways of coping with meeting new people or operating in a crowd of strangers. There’s the traditional method of…

  • Holidaying at home in NZ and the weather

    It poured down all day today. In fact it has poured down pretty much constantly since I got here mid December for my holiday. It’s not like I chose Invercargill to holiday in either. I am in the land of Sunshine – the Bay. The Real Bay not the pretenders down there on the East…

  • And thus it was begun

    The clouds parted, the heavens cracked, and thus spake the blog of Dave. ‘Whosoever visits here shall be blessed,’ it boomed across Cyber Land. ‘Yeah whatever,’ apathied the crowd as one. So we’ll see what happens from there.