Episode 3: The Times are Changing.

After a long and laborious search we finally found a new place to live. It is an apartment at the top of queen street which is the mainstreet in Auckland city (like a kiwi-grafton street) above a large computer store. Home sweet home for the foreseeable future . The balcony over looks the city and Auckland bay and to the left there is a clear view of Skytower. We visited there just the other day and saw some crazy people jumping off the top of the tower and paying for the pleasure. Are they Mad? I took some pictures of these loonies going for the plunge which I will later photoshop my head into and pretend that I have made the jump. None will be any the wiser. THE CAMERA NEVER LIES or so the common phrase from a bygone era used to regularly proclaim. The weather here is starting to get a little cooler in with daytime temperatures plummeting to a positively chilly 22 degrees. Brrrr however shall I manage? Also in recent days it has rained for the first time since arriving here. Just like being home. The really real Shortland street is just a short stroll away and is situated just off the lower end of queen street. They were filming and explosion scene there the other day for an upcoming action pact story line with all sorts of pyrotechnics and the like.* exciting stuff indeed.

The St Patrick's festival was held here over the weekend a little earlier than the actual day. Lots of Irish people walked the streets and got totally ratarsed to show the kiwis how proud we are of our national day. Not one for the excuse to drink but for the sake of the festival. The self same people will also have to get totally ratarsed again on Wednesday having had a more than successful trial run over the weekend. The official 'dignitary' here at the expense of the taxpayer was well know tax spender Mary Harney who was in town to officially represent Ireland Inc to extol her usual brand of smiling and nodding and hoping for the best. Many over the weekend tried to explain to her the wisdom of an icon of another well know yearly festival about the importance of 'Making a list, and checking it Twice', or perhaps even once, but this it seem to be either beyond her comprehension or else she didn't give a fiddlers as she did her utmost to show the locals how to enjoy Paddies day.

Well that's all the news for now. I'm on the search for a job now. Hopefully I can get one by the end of the week. Perhaps I'll return home and apply for a cabinet ministerial position which are now being vacated like a game of musical chairs ahead of the increasingly likely upcoming general election. Tee hee hee what every will happen next.

Ta ta for now kiddies

Lee

*some dramatisation of actual events may have occurred or have been totally made up