there were three cruise ships parked up in auckland today which was quite impressive. and they were particularly massive ones too
i blame the rugby
i took our passports in to the immigration office today to get our returning residents visas upgraded to permanent as they’ve expired. as of yesterday if we left the country we’d be unable to get back to our lives here so it makes sense to address that. it should be a formality though as we meet all the criteria to be allowed to come and go as we please.
once we get these back our next UK visa application will be for residency in three years time. we’re 2/5 of the way there already.
here’s a lovely apology from a shop i saw today. it’s to their beloved customers. have a bright lovely day
and here’s a chap sitting next to a giant box of tea which appeared next to him as he was sitting drinking L&P as i walked past him. he looked at it a bit confused but carried on sitting there
and this lady was an undercover canadian doing some busking
this evening we popped open some champagne to celebrate our two-th anniversary in NZ (a day later, but we can blame belated jet lag)
and then we had a game of the great mammoth hunt which esther won as she knows everything about the world
sorry if that didn’t make much sense – i think i may have passed my optimum champagne intake