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it's a dog sign medley (worth clicking for bigger view)

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here's andy.  he was visiting from the UK with his lovely wife and kindly gave up their last afternoon in new zealand to visit us.  i took them to muriwai to look at gannets and walk through the bush. twas splendid

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the queen elizabeth was in auckland on monday morning so that was nice to walk by on the way to my office.

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not an ideal occurrence on the motorway.  but i pulled over just in time and all was good.

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my work colleague went to waiheke island near auckland and stumbled across a load of mannequins in a vineyard.  how good is that?

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spotted on the 9th

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i think i've shown you this dog sign with its extra long tail before.  but here it is again anyway.  you have to expect some dupliciousness

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and honesty box

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i used to take pictures of a lot of no smoking signs.

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if you must bring
food and drink
to this area we
would
appreciate it if
you would
refrain from
leaving your
litter
(alternatively
you could make
other
arrangements)

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feels like months ago now (it was) when we were back in the britain.  whilst there i had a week of work in london and caught my old commuter train just after 6am.  good times.

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just now spotting the word 'clear' on the road.  for a clear head perhaps

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de baffled

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a single cloud floated by

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these sticker graffiti things have appeared around our local shops.  i have to say i quite like them.

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rapidly becoming older (both of us)

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i've been running a parallel blog of family life so you don't see 'my peeps' much over here.  but we're still all well and having a ball in new zealand.

here's my lovely wife jane.  lovely.

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nice to see actual pictures of the actual traps

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not a bad way to spend a day off work

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2 beers one wine

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not my car.  if only

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here's a little snippet of the excitement (and audio from the excitable man next to me)

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it was just stuck on

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slightly misleading advertising?

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i went to a music festival on monday as it was Auckland's birthday (172 years since you asked).  Neil Finn is younger than that.

here are some pictures via my flickr feed. to save you having to see them all in a long pile.

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it's a fanta. see?

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i've been back in NZ for a couple of weeks now, but there's still plenty of london pictures coming.  sorry for the confusing global state.

anyway, nice to be back commuting along the auckland bus lane and over the bridge each morning.

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didn't get round to posting this a few weeks back.  sorry about that.

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strange thing in a carpark

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'all the' badges

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