HELLO From New Zealand

Horace

Happy Christmas Chev..please can you regale us with tales of spending Christmas somewhere warm? Its been flippin' freezing here:rolleyes:

Wol2

Yay Chev :j:j

Happy Grimbo!!

How are you my lovely? Sweating it out "way darn sarf" :rotfl:

My bro and his family are in your neck of the woods atm for a wedding.

Hope you had a lovely Christmas..and that 2010 brings you nearer to your goals :kisses3:

Piggies say "wheek wheek Auntie Chev...please send us some dandelions as the snow has stopped all ours from growing"

Hugs to you and yours
xxxx

beanielou

Hope you had a nice Christmas & heres to a healthy happy & solvent 2010.
Take care.

ms_london

Hi Chev

Just read your thread to see how you are getting along.

Sorry to hear you are struggling a bit. Cut yourself some slack though! Moving is a big enough adjustment as it is, let alone when you move the furthest away you possibly can move (and with children), and when you have mammoth problems in the UK with your old house and the possibility of a court case to deal with too - wow! So don't be too hard on yourself, it does take a while to settle in, and the absence of friends will make it so much harder.

Where are you living in NZ? I still know a lot of people there (depending on where you are) who might be able to help.

Rubbish about immigration too!

It's funny, I am sitting here, desperately wanting to be back living in NZ (and have done so since I've been back in the UK). I wonder if it is the grass is always greener syndrome! You WILL make friends, and overall the quality of life IS better (a cliche but true!), these are just hurdles you would overcome settling into anywhere new, although the stories of abuse would take a lot to swallow - but, things like that unfortunately happen everywhere you go.

I know what the depression side of things is like, so please PM me if you want to chat - and if you would like any UK comforts sending on, please let me know. (I missed Cadburys and drove my family nuts asking for it all the time... don't eat it so much here, haha!).

I hope you've had a nice Christmas though - I hear it has been hot. (I am so jealous!).

xx

chevalier

Hi guys. I haven't been on this for a while. I have decided I need somewhere to keep me on track with things a bit, so will write things to get them out of my system more than anything.

immigration actually sacked my case worker for incompetance. Just says it all really. It has also set my residency claim back ANOTHER 6 months. It is really really :mad::mad::mad::mad::mad::mad::mad::eek::eek::eek::(:(:(:(:(:(:(:(!

Stil haven't found a job yet, and wondering about that. But my sitting room is actually fairly tidy at the moment. So will try and keep that up.

I have also accepted (NOT that i want to) that I will get no help round the house with housework, so am doing that when I want to. It has helped my mood that the kitchen is clear in the morning etc...

Memory Girl has got me thinking, and some of that has been uncomfortable to do.... so have been away from the boards a bit. Now dipping my toe back in.

Right off the do some knitting and read some diaries at the same time.

washing mountain is now a hillock so that is a result.

ta ta
chev

chevalier

And another thing for you peeps going into winter. I have been amazed this winter by how effective one piece of clothing can be for keeping me warm! It is......*drum roll* opaque 70 denier tights. They were SO much warmer than my normal ones. It has meant that this year we haven't need to put on the sitting room heater at all, in the evening, and so have saved about $100 a month on our heating bills. Yippee!

Wol just because you asked a while ago, the house thing is strangely quiet. We have heard nothing for months. The last thing was along the lines of the cost for the repairs to next door would be circa 46k GBP. We asked for a detailed break down of the costs and nothing. So basically I am letting sleeping dogs lie!

As more time goes on, that some is less in real terms even if we have to pay it! Also found out the other day that our UK house is no where near in negative equity, even after the housing slump. In fact even if we asked well below the market rate, we would have enough to pay the mortgage back, and get back ourselves the original cost of the property .

Other news, DS1 went on a play date today YIPPEEE. Then just had DS2 having a strop for an hour or so because he wasn't invited. SIGH.

Seems to have gone well though, so a bit of progress there.

Will update more tomorrow

chev
ps. I am tackling my wool mountain, by knitting baby hats for south africa. It is something to do....

chevalier

to do list for today
pay cricket subs
pack up trade me items so i can tell the buyer the combined postage done, am now trying to get email to work so i can tell them.
list the jeans on my desk on trade me
put out washing done
get fruit done
put another load of washing on done
input receipts
set budget for next 4 weeks
take car in to sort out loud noise (gulp) done am awaiting the verdict. Its a baring in the drive chain 'only' $350 or so plus we are going to bite the bullet and get the stuck window done too
go to post office and post two parcels and some letters. 1 parcel and 1 letter

good weekend except for this ruddy shoulder of mine. Very proud mummy as my youngest got picked for a rep side a touch. nice. first day of term 4 today
chev

off to bed night all

chevalier

Bring over remainder of list from yesterday. Didn't do too badly but needed to get it all done really.
pay cricket subs
list the jeans on my desk on trade me
put out washing 3 loads out already and it is only 9am here, however partly because i found a 'lost' wash hanging around in the drying room oops:o.
put another load of washing on done again
input receipts
set budget for next 4 weeks
wait for garage to phone so as can collect hopefully well car again.
go to post office and post two parcels and some letters. AGAIN lol
Help DS1 with homework.
Change over clothes for all of us from summer to winter - BIG TASK.

chevalier

Again bring forward from yesterday SIGH. Just wish my shoulder would sort itself out. Rotten sleep again last night.

pay cricket subs done hallelujah!
list the jeans on my desk on trade me
put out washing done twice
put another load of washing on done twice
input receipts started.... going to take a while...!
set budget for next 4 weeks
Change over clothes for all of us from summer to winter - BIG TASK.

hypno06

You are getting through the list, but instead of rolling over from one day to another and feeling like it is never ending, how about having one list per week and working on it over the period of a few days?