200th post

Well, here we are, the 200th post. We've not been the most prolific blogging team in the world but hopefully even if one or two of our blogs have interested you or made you laugh then we have done a good job.

Without getting all Dennis Norden about the best clips ever, I think the best received blog post to date is still the one about my shave in Nha Trang, Vietnam. If you are one of those people (copyright D. Norden) that likes shaving stories, then click on the old posts link and immerse yourself in the story of one man's bravery in search of a shaving nirvana. (and his subsequent disappointment and mental scarring)

Anyway, the 200th post is going to be a short one with some brief updates.....

1) We're still in the same house, have been for a year now which given our track record when we were away is some sort of record. The flat we are in though has just had the shower ripped out due to the fact the tiles were falling off, we can't park on our street for the next 5 months and there is additional extreme disruption due to all sorts of repairs. (a few months ago they resurfaced the roads, they have now had to dig a lot of it up again to pump concrete into abandoned mines.) read all about it on the Bungo Blog. http://www.bungoblog.com Which Katie also recently posted onto about the recent spate of bin raiders - quite the community champion ;o)

2) The car crash saga continues, no more crashes thankfully but no settlement cheque yet or anything. The insurance company of the hire car have of course been efficient enough to already deduct the excess from my account.

3) I am still working up in East Ren but that job may not last forever, there are a few other jobs just been advertised but we'll see how that goes.

4) This next bit should really have its own blog entry but due to lack of photos I am just going to tell it here.

We met up last night with Adrienne and Vicky, who we have known for a long while now but whom we stayed with whilst in Melbourne. You may remember that we attended a Neighbours night? Well they were the ones that dragged us kicking and screaming to it - only joking, I think it was the other way around. It was a hugely funny night though.

In fact, we had some great laughs with those two even though we only stayed with them in Melbourne for 10 days. They also visited us in NZ for a short while so we had lots to reminisce about.

We didn't have a camera this time though and Stefan Dennis wasn't there, so the only photo I have is of me with an NZ beer called Steinlager Pure - it really was my default beer of choice for the last year in NZ.

A good night was had by all though and hopefully we'll see them again sometime soon.

So, it's over and out for another post - hopefully we'll have some more exciting things to write about soon.