The Big Move - NI to NZ

The story of a new life in New Zealand. Northern Ireland it ain't.

Monday, November 07, 2011

The end of this blog

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I am stopping this blog. It was never meant to go on as long as it has -- my intention was to document the emigration process, which has bee...
Saturday, September 03, 2011

A year to the day

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This day last year I (along with everybody else in Canterbury) was blissfully unaware of how life was about to change for all of us. My husb...
Saturday, July 23, 2011

Nail varnish

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For the last few months I have been doing my nails with CND Shellac. It's a gel hybrid polish, which means that it has to be cured with ...
Thursday, June 23, 2011

A verdict on the city's land

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The first official government report on the state of the city's land came out today. It doesn't cover everywhere (some places haven...
Tuesday, June 14, 2011

June 13th Aftershocks

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I have been meaning to update this blog anyway, with non-earthquake stuff, but that can wait for another day. Yesterday we had two major a...
Tuesday, April 26, 2011

Coping

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A few people have asked me how we're coping after the earthquake. I feel like a bit of a fraud when they ask, because honestly we haven...
Monday, March 21, 2011

What's working / what isn't

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On a personal level: We got electricity and water back a few days after the earthquake. Going to the toilet in a plastic bag became the new...
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