‘Rusty but trusty’

I've been keeping an eye out for a bike (bicycle) for a while since being back in New Zealand. It's always hard when you first move countries because you need to get set up with a car first, but if you have lots of hobbies - as we do - then you need surfboards, and …

Derby-din (Dunedin)

I once explained to my bet mate that Dunedin (where C is from originally) for C is like Derby is to me. I grew up in Derby in the midlands (UK) and hated it. I still hate it there now. The only good things about Derby are: Alton Towers (a really great theme park, which …

Forest missions

It's that time of the year again in NZ when it's dropping colder and we've been having the log burner on in the evenings. Logs are available to buy in lots of places, but they're expensive. The other day I went down to one of the local forests and did my first pine cone collection …

The last place we look…

C asked me the other day (when he was looking for something) ''why is it always in the last place that we look?'' ...... I told him: 'It's because we stop looking once we find it'. Of course it's going to be in the last place you look, because no one carries on looking for …

Hair today, gone tomorrow…

Yesterday I chopped all my dreadlocks off. Actually, that's a lie. C chopped them off for me. (Yes, I did ask him to, and it wasn't spur of the moment thing - I'd been thinking about it for a while). They'd gotten really long and heavy, in particular when they were wet. I did tell …

The day the whale came to town

Last week a whale came to town. Or rather, it came in very close to the harbour and spent the day cruising around catching krill much to everyone's surprise. In Kaikoura the sea level drops away really deep, about 800m from the land. This is known as the Kaikoura canyon and as a result of …

Stoned pancakes

The other day was a bad weather day, so C decided to make some cookies. He'd already decarboxylated some weed a few days before (I didn't know that was a 'thing' either) and he now had an ounce of weed in a block of butter sitting in the fridge (and freezer) respectively. To give him …

La bouche de la chatte de la lune

I love the moon. I've always felt drawn to the moon and I spent a large proportion of my twenties getting high and taking photos of it. Not even good photos, I didn't have a fancy camera and I'd usually wake up the next morning with about 186 of the same photo - of a …

‘Have a great life’

I had a really good interaction with a guy at work yesterday. Just for context, I work in a coffee/ gelato container in a small surf town in New Zealand and I bloody love it here. Anyway. I make coffees and I chat to people who want to chat. Some people do want to, others …

Check out this guy…

I love this picture of C. I've got it saved on my phone screen as the 'wallpaper' or whatever you call it. He's not intentionally giving: ' the brooding, contemplative man stared off into the distance whilst dripping water off his taut muscles in the pool' vibes. I was actually perving at him in the …