My friend’s place [on Communications Hill for any local persons] is huge. His “my little townhouse” comment was like comparing a grandfather clock to Big Ben!
I did have a wonderful time. It was great to see him again, even though he’d been in Oz but a few weeks before. It was also [...]
Airport at least: four hours down…just over two to go until I leave for San Francisco.
I’ve wandered around, checked out some gin [Bombay Sapphire / Tanqueray] and champagne [Moët & Chandon -- two friends recently got engaged, and I have a little spare money to splurge for them], grabbed lunch, wandered some more, surfed the [...]
5:30am…I am at Sydney Airport…and there is a slight hiccough with my booking. No doubt due to the changes. Air New Zealand are on the case and I’m to check back at 6am. Very helpful staff. I do hope I can get up, up and away…I do want my holiday!
Thanks be [...]
Thank you again for your comments, thoughts and prayers; they are appreciated and valued by not only me, but my family also. The funeral will be Tuesday. There have been dramas, disagreements and a few heated words as all the planning for the funeral takes place: but we are all friends. [...]
My grandmother passed away tonight. May she rest in peace.
She went soon after hearing [she wasn't fully conscious, being on morphine, but I believe she heard -- or at least knew, in some sense] my dad came safely out of his operation on his knee: I do think she was holding on for him. [...]