First Blog!

Hey Everyone,

Glad you made it to the Blog site!

Hopefully this will make it easy for all of us to keep in touch being that we've all started to move out of the Waimate-Timaru-Christchurch spread! It dawned on me the other day how odd it was for Matt to be graduating and me to not know about it! So, hopefully this will solve some communication problems... Dad's side of our family has a similar blog setup, which has proven quite effective so far, so here's hoping we can emulate its success.

It should work the same as group emails, except be less annoying by not clogging up everyone's inbox. Plus, you get the liberty of blogging or checking what's happening around the country whenever suits you.... It'll obviously work best if everyone tries to contribute about once a week (I find Sunday afternoons the best!). If everyone picks a colour to use (ie i'm blue), then that'd be great to help distinguish authors (as people will inevitably forget to sign their names etc)

So hopefully once everyone gets accustomed to the blog site, then we should have weekly updates from Auckland, Wellington, Palmy, Chirstchurch, Dunners, Timaru, Waimate, Wanaka, Tokoroa, and even Europe. What could be better?

I'll kick start the gossip thing...

Auckland's going really great for me so far. The job is better than I thought it would be, the hours of law clerks in big firms is reputedly ludicrous, but i'm usually out of the office by 5:15 so no complaints there. The office is in the viaduct, which is 12 minutes on a train that leaves from the end of my street (in Newmarket), which costs $1.25 each way.

The flat is working out well, i'm living with accountants and lawyers, so the trivial pursuit is a little intense at times, and the conversation often extremely dry...

My one major purchase so far is my 60L tropical fish tank and 20 fish, which i'm very proud of. Ahh the novelty.

Two weeks ago I was admitted to the bar in Dunedin, which as you all probably know Grandma and Granddad came down for which was awesome! I'm back down that way in 2 weeks for graduation, and so will no doubt catch up with you Dunedinites then.

Well, I should stop now, before you all freak out that you have to write this much, when really one sentene will do.

Happy Bloggin'

Dave