yo, liv can you put nielgaimans blog up on the links page?

indeed annika is german, a most personable young wench who i am really rather fond of, so the less inti-german bilge from you the better. 😉 aarg! i used an imoticon! the shame. the horror. pass the katana, i must atone. as you may have guessed i am reading shogun, very good but everyone in it is commiting sepicu(ritual suicide) at the drop of a hat.

i know of one kiwi girl who wares knee length socks, multi coloured striped ones if memory serves. i shall buy some to day. yar the problem of no accomidation or transport is only solved by going on some hellbane of a tour costing an arm and a leg. the odds are that if we hitch hiked we are likely to be stranded up there.

to night i shall get donnie darko out as reportedly it is the best film ever made. and it has a demon rabbit in it, which makes all the difference.

as to mullholand, TOM has seen it. can tom blog? if not, why not?

lala…we may go one a 24 hour cruise with coroline, christian and dipti. decisions, decisions. my brain, it hurts.

julio

Roses is held in york this year, so we shall be playing on the usual courts by the sports centre. I play at 10am on saturday, if anyone is passing by…

We’re starting a new forum for epic tales. Also you may have noticed that the latest 5 posts are listed on the menu after the news.

can’t say as I’ve seem mullholland.

Where is annika from? Germany mayhaps?;-)

Lazed outside most of yesterday afternoon, must sunny and such. Then i got attacked by demons with supersoakers. Off in to town now to buy one! Also some lettuce as I haven’t been eating enough fruit n veg.

Baedeker says:
“From Cape Reinga there are very rewarding trails eastwards to Spirits Bay (about 10 hours) and southward by way of Cape Maria van Dieman to ninety Mile Beach and then inland to Te Paki (about 7 hours).
There is no overnight accomodation at Cape Reinga. Information about walks and and accomodation in the area can be obtained from the information centre in Kaitaia.”

Baedeker also says, under “Dress”:
“New Zealanders prefer light casual clothing; typical dress for a man is shorts and knee-length white stockings.”

I don’t recall how many sets of knee-length white stockings you packed, Jul, but it would probably be a good idea to get some more. You can always pass them on to Geoff, who may not have enough of his own.

Check your insurance policy, Tan, to see if, like Jul’s, it only covers white water rafting up to grade 4!

Liv – where is this tennis being played? When things get tough, I recommend Mark William’s strategy when he was fighting the snooker final and found his nerves getting so bad “it was like playing with a different arm” so he repeatedly sang (to himself) Tom Jones songs (they’re both Welsh) to drown out the negative thoughts swirling round in his head. I’m going to try this myself, someday.

Jul – a word of warning concerning ninety mile beach, should you be there in a car. From the Baederker travel guide: “This gleaming white sand tempts motorists to drive alone the beach itself; but this can be highly dangerous.” So, there you have it! Actually, we all went to ninety mile beach in our car; and I remember driving onto it a little way, and coming across a car full of Maoris stuck in the sand. We helped them out, then turned around and went back. I believe there’s some quicksand around, too, which is fairly unpleasant stuff to get stuck in.

Tan – Mama took “Enchanted April” up North and it seems Granny, who slept through most of it but woke up near the end, remembered having seen it at a theatre, sometime. Both videos are now with Alan and Maria. Enjoy your elephant ride.