How about this bed for someone’s room?

Mmm. Which plan were you refering to? Rethinking, overnight, I realise that if you do want to go to Bali, on 6th July, maybe you need to change everything now, rather than nearer the time, because availability might be a problem. In fact, it might be a problem already! I hadn’t thought about that.
To recap:
Plan A was re-route everything from Auckland to tie in with T&G in Bali, retuning to London at the end of July.
Plan B was simply delay the existing routing until you’re clearer.
Here’s Plan C. It’s clear that you’re heading further and further away from Kerikeri! Figure out where, roughly, you’ll be by the beginning of July. Nelson, mayhap!!!!! Re-reoute your ticket now, at a cost of US$75, to Nelson (or wherever the nearest NZ airport is to where you’ll be)-Auckland-Sin-Bali-Sin-Lon, tieing in with T&G’s times. As you approach the beginning of July, either you’ll use the ticket, or you’ll have decided something completely different. Then you just pay the few dollars to change the dates until you know what you want to do and either use the ticket as it is or re-route it again.
Plan D is Mama’s. She suggests working backwards. Assuming you need to be here by mid September, arrange to go somewhere in SE Asia for a week of two before legging it to London, so leave NZ towards the end of August.
Plan E. A new one. Rip the ticket up and get a job! Establish yourself as a plastacine modeller in NZ. We’ll visit you on our bicycle tour later this year. There’s an article in the Sunday Times saying nine tenths of university degrees are a waste of time and money and don’t help much in the job market, anyway.
Hey, what happened to all the hair raising stories you used to regale us with?

hail.

well all the stuff about touranga is academic now as we have left! we were going to stay around for a while and chack out mt monganui but then we made a sudden biumverate executive decision and took the bus to rotorua. it still stinks here, since my last visit. and the chicken was frankly crap. we are now going to check out the hot spa place for a few hours. aaahhh.

liv: i saw the matrix last night and thought it was rather good. a tad disapointed about the end but exelent stuff all round. i like the way they avoided using guns as the first film had already done that to death. and the way the story has turned. and wack neo is the coolest person EVER!!! wow. the power!

well your plan sounds about right dod. i will change the 18th flight when i get to toupo, then sort it out in my head. maybe there is something to check out near singapore?

my twitching eye connot be a salt deficiency as i have cansumed a vast amount in the last few weeks. it must have been the two megalattes i had in kerikeri. dangerous stuff coffee.

julio

Mama let out several shrieks of dismay when she heard you had started diving. It hadn’t crossed my mind, but possibly it’s not the best thing to do if you’ve got this allergic thing bubbling around inside. All the side effect warnings talk about breathing difficulties as well as lumps and itching, so maybe heading deep down underwater, which affects your metabolism anyway, is tempting providence. Not wanting to be a wet blanket and all that; but what’s wrong with staying on land (out of the sun, of course, on account of increased sensitivity!) until you know for sure what’s the cause of this ‘thing’?

The ‘high fever’ is just a possible sign of malaria. The odds are you weren’t even bitten!

Note what she said about fakes!

I thought you said earlier you had already stopped Doxy?

I checked with Air NZ and they say that if you change one leg of your ticket it costs US$75 (£50) but if you change umteen legs, as long as it falls in the overal mileage allowance, it doesn’t cost any more, if you do it at the same time.
So, I suggest, if you’re not sticking to the 18th June flight, forget about going to Bangkok on July 1st in order to hightail it to Singapore and then Bali on the 4th/5th; and, assuming you’re definitely decided Bali is ‘on’, change yout ticket (cutting out Kerikeri and Auckland) to go Auckland-Sin-Bali-Sin-London. Arrange the Auckland-Sin leg for whatever date Tan and Geoff arrive in Singapore. You’re already on the same flight as them (SQ146 at 1400 on 6th July) from Sin to Bali. Also, while you’re about it, try and get on the same flight as them out of Bali, too. Currently, you’re on Flight SQ141 leaving at 0915 on 25th July; they’re on Flight 147 leaving at 17.25 the same day. If you do that, you’ll have to change your Sin-London flight to link up with the Bali-Sin bit. All that’ll cost $75.
However, if you’re unsure about that routing, or about going to Bali at all, or what you want to do, just change the outward date from Kerikeri to somewhere in the distant future – say, November, or something – for the time being, until you’re more certain. That only costs a few NZ dollars, doesn’t it? There’s not much point expending $75 just to buy three weeks pondering time, when you may want to change it all again, later!
Having said all that, I am instructed by Mama to add that you can in fact go to Bali, and anywhere else, including the high mountainous rainforests of Borneo, any time …