Inauguration

If you have a little time to spare, browse this site.....

http://www.zefrank.com/from52to48withlove/index.html

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Aquarium

Don't ask me why - but Catherine dearly wanted a small aquarium for Christmas, and we were foolish enough to give it another shot. Here it is, although fish will not be added until later in the week. I am bracing myself for a series of fish funerals...

Testing testing

I signed up as a beta-tester to try out a new organisational system - yes, I am a sucker for trying new ways of organising things!! It's called Autofocus and the creator of the system is happy to take on further testers via his website (click here). The only reason I'm even putting up a blog post today is because of the new system. I entered "write a blog post" as a task and hey presto - here I am. Amazing. It worked!

The real rest of the system, of course, will be when uni and school start up again. This time of year I like to play around with how I process things. Later on I simply process them - and not always successfully. So we shall see. If I keep on blogging over the next couple of months, thank Autofocus :)

Nika & Cat

Planning Begins

Planning has officially begun for the Hills Family's 2010 trip "around the world". A valid itinerary is in place, which will no doubt be rearranged and tweaked as we make the attempt to find a flight featuring the new airbus A380.... Christopher's dream come true. The fun (some of us would debate the use of the word "fun" at this point) begins on 1 May 2010. Our progress to England will include stops in Singapore (2 nights), Paris/France (1 week), Cairo/Egypt (3 nights), and finally on to London.

Several months later our return trip will include Zurich/Switzerland (2 nights), Rome/Italy (6 nights), Washington DC (5 nights), Indianapolis (8 nights), Los Angeles (2 nights) and home via Auckland, New Zealand! In between, we will be hopping across the channel to Holland and making a visit to Ireland for a walking (aka Guinness drinking) holiday.

Cairo is Catherine's choice, Italy is Christopher's. Garry's preference is to stay at home, but if he absolutely has to go, a visit to Ireland is essential. My vote went to France and anything else is a bonus. Okay, okay, visiting family is also part of the point - relax dutchies and americans!! We're coming... eventually.

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