haha Most comical indeed, for is it not said: “thou shallt laugh till thou bringest up phlegm.”
my coffers my be a bit depleted but its nothing a few years at the pepper factory won’t fix.

the countdown continues, most distressing leaving annika to fend for herself in this cold and hostile land. oh well, all flesh is as grass.

julio

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

poor moggies i say!

gone of the wwoofing as i have only six or so days left. i need to get an itinary from somewere but my flight leaves at 2.15 so it is likly that it will arive in singapore at about 2 in the morning which sounds nice

julio

hello! pics: top: christian snoozing in bluey, believe it or not three people slept in tat van. mid: rather top notch view just before i went white water rafting. bottom: once more the old gang doing a spot of fishing.

gods, i hate harry potter.just thought i would share that with you all.

yes it is still the first, tan. not long to go indeed! i doubt if annika will be joining us in bali, but we shall see.gadzooks malarky! dost thee thinkoth of me as some foolish knave? i canst findith mine ownest way from the hive of corruption and pesterlance we know as singapore. upon my troth i couldst meet thee wereever thee wish.

money is a bit low. wwoofing rears its ugly head once more and i think we will do it for maybe a week.
thanks for the e-mail also mama, rest assured i read your corrispondance, but usally after i have blogged.

last night we went to the world famous napier solstice fire festival on the green near our hostel. much fun, involving such delights such as a opera singing comedian who presented the show, a fire pod from a hot air balloon, flaming poys(fire chians wirled about the head.) a rather jolly rock band called double scotch who had the novel idea of encorperating bagpipes into a rock band. music was a bit crap but it was fun seeing them prancing about in there kilts and playing on a set of electric bagpipes of all bizzare things. the was also some cook island drummers, and some hot salsa dancing which i think mama would have enjoyed, many prancing and chest jutting blokes with oiled hair frolicking with dusky snake impresionists. then there fire works, quite impressive really, and a massive bonfire which we sat around until late. good stuff.

julio

hail. i picked up bonfire of the vanities from some random place in south island, what seems like years ago. but i left it by mistake. most annoying as it looked good. did the the pat on the back feel as good as a crisp fiver? that is the question!

pics, top: don’t recall recomending this one, hone heke again, bluey the van on the left. mid: some dolphins suprisingly, in milford sound. bottom: massive water fall in milford sound.

aha! i just picked up catch-22 in a book shop and started reading, afetr maybe half an hour of sidesplitting amusement i resufaced. very funny book, i should have listned to it when you got it for me out of the library, dod.
at the momant we are staying in a hostel called the chriterian (uncle fred in the springtime!) which is very art deco. apart from this place i haven’t seen much. it is a bit rediculous the hype about this being the art deco capital of the world. but this hostel looks like something from jeeves and wooster, at the momant annika is playing the piano in the background, god is in his heavan and alls right with the world.
yester day i went to the air newzealand fiends to check if they had cancelled my flights and to pay them the fifty squid. first the minion claimed that i didn’t exist then stated that they had nothing to do with air singapore, evan though the phone biscuit had asured me thet the air singapore flight would be cancelled. “you should ring them” said the minion “or they will cancell your entire tiket”. she glanced at a callender. “you should ring them …er yesterday?! whaaahg? i thought, not a little pertubed.but the minion was some sort of angel in disguise she was on the case before i could mutter a worried “oh dear” and had air singapore on the phone, and lo she sorted it in two minutes. “that will be ten dollors” she said. i fumbled with my wallet trying to cover my suprise. what price the crisp $130 dollors i had to part with, i thought well she didn’t mention it so i didn’t iether. momants later i was ten dollers lighter and the wide open spaces lay before me.

julio