our equivalent of VAT called GST is increasing from 12.5% to 15% on the 1st October. the shop above is a bit stuck. it’s the $3 Japan shop will have to start calling itself the $3 plus GST shop.
Jane beat the increase today by buying a bed for our spare room so visitors can sleep in style.
in other news we ended up doing various UK house things remotely (in a landlord capacity) and arranged some gardening things with our landlords here. all fiddly time consuming stuff.
then this evening we had our home group. our excellent friend eugine arrived an hour early by mistake but that was fine as he arrived just as we were having desserts. he then played our girls at the Great Moa Hunt (a board game) whilst i prepared the study. by the time everyone else turned up we were all organised !
as you can see from the pictures it’s still really wet and really windy
but it’s also quite warm here unlike the south island which are having an altogether colder and more unpleasant experience of the storm which is still passing over the country.
here’s some signs of spring
