Three weeks today

Before I am on New Zealand time!

Until then things might be a bit quiet around here (as you may have noticed!).

The bury the jumper juncture has arrived

Yes - that's right, it's that time of year again...

Winter is officially over- signalled by that moment that all ladies of London wait for every year. The shorts are out and on, the pins liberated!

The official ceremony to celebrate this changing of the seasons has just been arranged and takes the traditional form - the first afternoon Gardy Bar session of the year.

Happy days.

Well he is my God son after all....

I have just seen this comment from MJD re one of the jnr's:

Hey Frit - guess what mate......yeah nothing Na just kidding - guess what happended in the Hornsberry house yesterday......still nothing!! :) :)

OK - for reading this far - I will tell you that I think your nephew Lucca is borderline genis! We know he's borderline pyshco - OK no borderline about that - but at under 3 years old and putting a 100 piece jig saw together - UPSIDE DOWN is getting a bit freaky - don't ya reckon?

Borderline genius he says.

Well, work to do on the 'borderline' bit, but a solid start for a two year old whose old man spells genius - 'genis' - (good back and look)! ;-)

See you soon mate. Can't wait to expand his vocab with some of my favourite old classics!

All quiet on the London front

Not much of interest happening at the moment.

Yup - that's about it...

Boozy phone call

Chaff Wong - next time I call you after I have spent the proceeding 10 hours with Boy - please politely remind me that it is not the best time for chat...

If I proposed, then please let me down gently!!

'Big thinkers'

A genius from Christchurch has decided that we need to be nice to Australians:

Poking fun at Australians has been something of a national sport for decades, but now New Zealand's tourism bosses want less teasing and more visitors.

The plea, which may astonish patriotic Kiwis, is a serious one and comes as New Zealand tourism agencies take the bold step of adopting Australia's national colours as a marketing tactic.

"While one comment is pretty innocuous, if every second Kiwi makes a comment [to Australian visitors] about the cricket or about the rugby, it will start to grate on them," said Christchurch and Canterbury Marketing chief executive Ian Bougen.

"If we want to keep those Aussie dollars rolling in ... maybe we need to learn to be a little bit more hospitable."

Oh for the love of Christchurch.... He goes on, and it gets worse.

"Canterbury's colours are normally red and black, but we've decided that it's time for us to turn green and gold - at least for a few months," Mr Bougen said. "It's a little bit cheeky and a little bit quirky."

It's a little bit zany, a little bit out there and I'm not even wearing underwear.... You tit.

There is nothing worse than someone that is not busy enough and has to justify there existence coming up with this sort of tosh!