Tulsi Restaurant, Petone

Just got back from Tulsi in Petone.
We originally went out to try and find somewhere new to eat in Wellington. Shouldn’t be too hard as there are masses, possibly hundreds of restaurants we haven’t tried. The phone book reported that The Establishment on the corner of Courtenay and Blair served South American fayre [...]

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Is it just me?? (or: there is so much RUBBISH said about diabetes)

I get fed up with so called experts on the web. I expect this is one of the reasons why doctors tell you not to look at web resources. While we all know that a lot of doctors find it difficult to work with patients who actually know what they’re talking about, not [...]

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Dangerous driving

More in the press today about RTA deaths in the holiday season, today Harry Duynhoven suggests higher penalties for people who breach fundamental safety principles on the road.
I learned to drive in another country, and on the subject of red traffic lights, it appears to me that NZ drivers are not taught that amber means [...]

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King Kong

Have just got back from the late night showing of King Kong.
I enjoyed the movie very much, despite it being of a genre that bores me rigid. The special effects are superb. The plot is outlandish, of course, and that gets in the way every so often, but the cinematography and effects get [...]

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Alistair Cooke

For my birthday one of the things my partner chose from my list to get for me was a compilation of Alistair Cooke’s Letters from America. It’s a regular paperback size, regular paperback price and in these days where we are all colonised by the USA, should be required reading for all adults.
In case [...]

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Definitely ovulated

Fertility Friend agrees I ovulated on Saturday, but reckons our timing is “Good”
hope that’s true.

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Twelve days of chocolates

My parents have sent a wonderful present – Twelve Days of Chocolate for Christmas. Twelve little boxes of four luxury chocolates each, plus a Chocolate log :

People think diabetics can’t eat chocolates – not true, but you do have to be careful. What a brilliant idea – high quality chocolate in measured doses, [...]

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Oh well :(

Probably ovulated yesterday – temperature jump of 0.3 degrees today.
Our timing stinks (a combined effort), so probably no little miracle this month. Can’t help being disappointed. I expect we’ll head for IUI with injectibles in February.

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Christmas Eve

Another sunny morning. I hope it stays fine today. It would be nice to go to midnight mass tonight dressed for a summer night not a winter one.
There are some little brown birds in our garden that like landing on the top of a toetoe and making it bend right over. What [...]

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Happy Birthday to me

Today dawned well with good sunshine and little wind. However at about 1pm there was an electrical thunderstorm and since then it’s been rainy and windy. Ah well, maybe we’ll get it over before Christmas, and Christmas Day will be warm enough to have a meal outside. That would be nice.
One of our [...]

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Small birthday disappointment

Went to Moore Wilson’s today to buy yummy stuff for the holidays, including our now-traditional birthday crayfish.
But NO chilli chocolate. Even New World didn’t have any Chilli Chocolate TimTams. Obviously not Christmassy enough.
**harumph**

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Good grief

I’m pretty sure NZ’s health service has a way to go before it gets this bad

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Labour – encouraging borrowing, not saving

I see that government support for Diana Crossan’s saving scheme has been put on a back burner. This smacks of an attempt to minimise perceived anticipated bad press rather than a step in a thought-out strategy. I think the interest-free loans plan has blown up in government’s faces and they don’t want to be seen [...]

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Links

I just added some links – these were tabs that have been open in my browser for a while so I thought I’d add them as links.
They look so wonderful – the sentence reads like one thing, an announcement of what I’ve just done: “Just left McSweeney’s Ignobel Awards.” So I don’t want to add [...]

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More from the Beeb

Gosh the Beeb is a fount of knowledge today.
We now know that Napoleon’s army died in vast numbers on the Moscow campaign not because of the winter, or the lack of supplies, but because of … lice.
I wonder where my can of Mortein is…

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