OK - so here we go... the last update was made just after our wedding anniversary and covered xmas and our trips to Copenhagen and Brussels.
It's been 3 months since then and the big news in that time is that we went home to NZ for two weeks and had the pleasure of being at my brother's wedding.
We had two weeks to the day in NZ and it was nowhere near long enough! 14 days seems like a long time but we'd just got over our jet lag and it was time to get back on a plane! We flew direct there AND back and although it really is a long trip I'm slowly coming to the conclusion that that really is the way to do it - you only screw up your body clock once and I'm pretty sure that it's better to be 12 hours out rather that 8 then 4 (or something similar)
The wedding went very well, it was held at a place called The Winemakers Daughter just south of Otaki and luckily one of the two nice days we had out of 14 was the Saturday of the wedding (phew) The wedding was held outside and they had photos taken in the vineyard that is part of the estate and down at the beach. They were taken at about sunset and the light was just fantastic! (supposedly - we haven't seen any photos yet!) Selena looked stunning, my brother looked very handsome and the speeches were a hoot - what more could one want from a wedding? Wanna see some piccies?
While we were home we also went down to Christchurch for a night and saw Trace and Glen - they left the UK when Sam, their wee boy, was very young so it was nice to see how he's grown up (almost 3 now!) and also to see Niamh, their second child, who was about a year old. Vic and I stayed in town and I visited the casino and promptly lost 500 bucks! Luckily I had made at least that over the previous weeks on the pokies and by betting on the underdogs when the Superbowl was played 
So anyway, we drag ourselves back to the UK and settle back into our normal lives.
For our wedding anniversary Vic had got us some tickets to go on the London Eye. She had to book them months in advance and we wake up on that Saturday morning to an absolutely stunning day - clear skies, no wind, mucho sun - perfect. We hop on the tube and head down there for our 12:30 "flight" as they call it only to find that the damn thing was broken! They had done a software update on the computers that control it and it went around too fast afterwards! We were absolutely gutted - got our money back and wandered down the river for a couple of hours. Not the way we had planned on spending our day but very pleasant none the less. We also walked over the Millennium bridge. It’s been closed for almost 2 years due to it swaying too much and making people ill. Engineers sorted the problem out and now it doesn’t sway at all – shame really.
The evening of the 16th of March found us in Reading at the wedding function of our friends Darren and Helen. They had got married in Barbados a couple of months prior and were having a party for all those people that couldn't make it/afford it/weren't invited to the actual wedding. There were a lot of people there from CSF (yes, the people that made me redundant) and it was great to catch up with them. It all finished about midnight and as we had about a 90 minute drive home I took it pretty easy. The scary thing is I set Darren and Helen up! I invited Darren to work drinks and sat them next to each other on purpose. It's the first time I have tried match-making and what a result!!!
Anyway that'll do for now - I'll do the next part before the end of the week and will cover my trip to the zoo, our Easter in York and life in general.