Big Update

Hi, sorry for being rather lazy with the updates this year.
We've been up to a few things and here they are.
(sorry, I've gone picture mad as usual)

Firstly, Noodle has been ill :(

A few weeks ago she woke us up a few times in the night and she was all agitated. At 5am she woke me up and was frothing at the mouth.

Melanie called me when I was on the train to work to say Noodle was having a full-on fit - she fell over and was twitching and unable to move. She then got all vicious and tried to bite Melanie. (she's never so much as growled at anyone). Noodle couldn't get up or move her back legs for a few minutes.

I rushed home and we took her to the vet where she had another frothing incident.
They took blood for tests and we took Noodle home and she still wouldn't stop pacing. She started frothing again so Melanie took her back in for observation.

Noodle had another grand mal seizure at the vets and they put her in a drip. She came home that night and had more seizures in the night.
She was on the drip for another two days and at one point she was so bad they were planning to put her into a coma to help her recover.

Fortunately she started to get better on the drip and gradually came out of it.

It was horrible to see her so completely out of control and not being able to do anything for her (except administer medicine up the bum - not very nice!).

For a few days she was not herself and very grumpy and subdued - she even growled at Sam when he wanted to play. She gradually came back to her normal happy self and now seems to have forgotten all about it.

It could be epilepsy that might return or it could be something poisonous that she'd eaten. The vet says we need to wait a year before we can assume it was poison.

Once she was feeling better I gave her a haircut!

Sam's growing up quickly and is getting much bigger!

He's allowed out now (but not in the dark yet) and has discovered cicadas. He likes to bring them in alive, torment them in the house and leave them dead on the carpet.

Trying to make friends with Meg and Mog

He likes to climb on your shoulders and lick your head - ew!

He's done this trick a few times!







He's tried to kill both of us!

Greedy cat!!

A couple of weeks ago we went to see Billy Connolly in Wellington. A very funny man but it was a little disappointing that we'd heard a fair bit of his material before.

We visited the colossal squid at Te Papa

We went into Wellington on Waitangi Day

We went to a free concert in the Botanic Gardens

We found little crabs in our mussels!!

Some random photos from my office window

Two cruise ships in at once. There's been two or three cruise ships a week in Wellington for the last few weeks. Lots of lost looking tourists wandering around clutching maps.


Window cleaners next door


Wellington CBD and The Terrace

We went to Martinborough Fair

We were excited to find the first jacket spud place we've seen in NZ!



It was a bit hot!

I polished the car

Added more blue pipes


and fitted some lovely bling 18s (well I needed 4 tyres so it was rude not to!)

And of course the car sailed through its warrant of fitness with no issues.

Oh yeah and I had it dyno tested to find out how many horsepowers and torques it has