my day in wellington went really well. my presentation was fine and despite another one of the presenters dropping out we had a really good day.
the journey home wasn’t quite so good. we all got on the plane you can see above before the pilot announced there was some sand residue in the engines and some engineers had been called. after 5 minutes the pilot said he didn’t feel comfortable flying the plane so we all moved to another plane which just happened to be parked next to it.
as we walked between the two planes we could see the engineers having a shufty
and then we got stuck in a massive traffic jam in Auckland so the whole journey took an extra hour and a half longer than it needed. ho hum
and this was front page news today on the Dominion (one of the national papers). apparently there’s a professional mourner down there who goes to up to 4 funerals a week just for the food. they’ve nicknamed him the ‘grim eater’ which is good.
and it’s good to see the journalist has unpicked the story a bit to give you the inside story on funeral food. nice quote.
meanwhile jane has been spending all her future salary on necessity clothes and the girls had their violin lessons. jane is now out at her ‘crafty chicks’ church lady evening thing. and i’m not.
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Congratulations on a successful presentation but you seem to mention quite a lot of presenters dropping out. Perhaps they got a little nervous but glad it went well for you.
Lyndsey and I thought the “grim eater” story was hilarious.
The “grim eater” story has just apperaed on the Daily Telegraph website here in England so international recognition.
hoorah ! it is a great story. not sure it’s front page news though.
the other presenters had good excuses – illness, leaving the company, other major deadlines etc so i don’t blame them. it was just a bit fiddly rearranging at the last minute.
Looking forward to the fashion show via skype