2010/01/29 12:02 Back from holiday; it all went suprisingly well and cost just a shade over $2000 for 5 days away, pretty much what we budgeted for. If anyone ever visits Rotorua - go on the luge, it is seriously fun! We spent the whole morning on it, I must have ridden all the tracks at least four times over.
Back to work on Monday, sigh...
2010/01/21 06:01 It's my last day at work today, then a week off. We're taking the kids to Rotorua and Hastings to do all the usual touristy stuff - should be lots of fun.
An update on the crazy lady, we're going back there today with the police in tow to make sure we can do our job without being abused or pelted with rocks. I wonder if she really is mentally ill or just doesn't like peole on her property?
2010/01/13 21:10 Eek! Had to deal with a crazy woman today; we've been negotiating for months to get access to her property to inspect the drainage (not that we have to, the local government act gives us the right to access but anyhoo...) we were there for less than 5 minutes when she started screaming blue murder that we were poisoning her with radiation and that she was going to call her husband to "shoot us."
Discretion being the better part of valour, we retreated and regrouped outside her property where she threw stones and clumps of mud at us until we left. The strange thing is that during the negotiations to enter her land she seemed entirely normal, apart from being difficult about the whole access thing. I thought it was probably because she had a huge dope crop on her land and didn't want to be found out. Turns out she was just a loony. Next time we go back with the cops - who said the public service was boring?
