Now in jerentut, which quite frankly is uninspiring i say the least!!! off to the park tomorrow. will be getting the boat there, and as there is probably no mailing to be has there, i will mail from either malaka or mersing!!

We are planning to just stay in singapore when we pick the bunion up as there is nowhere close enough to ake it woth wile traipsing back to malaysia. anyway, with the zoo and many eateries, we should be kept entertained!!!! What was the one we used to prequent with the lucious pasties??? Hope there are no leeches….Glad to hear mama isn’t bored….Anyone would think she enjoyed having mounds of washing and slovenly slobs hanging round the house like a bad smell (liv n jul!).

Love Tanya

Mama would like to change her use of the word “bored”. She claims she didn’t mean she hasn’t got enough to do. On the contrary, she has a list as long as her arm, and things are being added to it as quickly as they get crossed off. No, what she meant was that life was a bit dull with just a ‘has-been’ for company.

bwahaha!! tan you are such a craven wormling, scared of a few small leeches and snakes. pah, i say and chah for good messure.

thanks for the e-mail mama, if you are looking for something to do you could have a crack at cleaning the shelves in my room and chucking away all the small clothes i will never wear again. that should acupy you for at least a month. a more fun thing wopuld be to do a spot of painting!

the pics: top: annika on the right, caroline on the far right, dipti on the left and our vast catch of fish in the centre. now that you mention it dipti’s shorts did remind me of something.

mid top: thrane isrealis. hanet in the center is the one i know quite well, she was very nice. that is the jolly coke machine at hone heke and beyond is the microscopic kitchen.

mid bottom: aha! guto, the funiest brazilian i have ever met. his classy turn of frase endeared him to one and all.

bottom: from left to right takoya of beach misadventure fame, sam son of shane, and some guy i don’t recall the name of.

still in napier, quite a nice town, almost as nice as nelson in fact. yesterday we did very little, and in fact we haven’t done much today iether, which is all to the good.

julio

Glad Mama used the hat, most gratifying after carrying it round everywhere!!!!!!

I’ll wait on the claim thing, mahaps send the things from singapore or New Zealand. as i can’t actually claim fron here i shouldn’t need them. No idea why i brought them in the first place. My bag is bursting with useless photocopies!

Will purchase another, malay hat so that you can have one each, and laughing at each other should eleviate the bordom of the quiet homestead!

Thanks for the mail mama, sounds like the weather is pretty nice at home at the mo. I am drinking some wierd pink stuff from the market. The lady mumbled ‘soya’ i think, but it doesn’t tast like it to me – interesting!!!

Love tanya

PS Geoff says all insurance companies are thieving scoundrels!!

Did you all get Mama’s ‘hat’ email? I had trouble sending it.

That was a fun leech story, Tan!

I should wait on the claim front.

It looks like SARS is a thing of the past: just as well you didn’t abandon SEA, as I suggested!!!!!!! Keep your mask, just in case. You can always donate it to Liv for pollen protection.

A few more photos.

It looks like Mama has crept into the tp one; or someone has borrowed her Tahitian shorts.

annika on the right, caroline on the far right, dipti on the left and our vast catch of fish in the centre. now that you mention it dipti’s shorts did remind me of something.

thrane isrealis. hanet in the center is the one i know quite well, she was very nice. that is the jolly coke machine at hone heke and beyond is the microscopic kitchen.

aha! guto, the funiest brazilian i have ever met. his classy turn of frase endeared him to one and all

from left to right takoya of beach misadventure fame, sam son of shane, and some guy i don’t recall the name of.

What a disgrace!!! I might just write a complaining e-mail to the bloke who sorted it saying that i am most displeased!!!!

What should i do? Se4nd you the stuff or else keep it and then do it when i get bach (when the policy will have run out, and they will probable say they can’t deal with it any more!!!

T