December 2009
the office xmas party
finally meeting andy
i finally got to meet Andy in Auckland. He’s a friend of good friends in the UK and has been fantastic at ‘praying us in’ to New Zealand over the last year. Including one moment when i was in the NZ embassy in the UK where an admin error threatened to derail our visa process. Andy was at that moment on Twitter and a few arrow prayers later, everything was sorted !
anyway, it was great to meet him in person and find he lived up to my expectations as a thoroughly nice/jolly/welcoming chap !
xmas auckland style
here’s a man adjusting the polystyrene bits in the snow globe. it’s the second time i’ve seen polystyrene bits in the last week – last sunday night i lay on a bean bag looking up at the underside of an umbrella at sydney observatory. we had to lay on bean bags on the floor looking up at the rather basic start display projected on to the underside of the umbrella
when we got up to leave there were polystyrene bits all over the floor due to a leaky bean bag. but it looks like little stars had escaped from the planetarium
oh, and here’s the 20 foot santa where i met a friend for morning tea yesterday. you can see a much better photo of santa and a bit of history at this excellent website here
jarvis cocker
i finally got to see jarvis cocker in concert on monday night. i missed him by a day in both wellington and auckland due to being in the other place on the other night.
so when i discovered he was playing in Sydney 2 minutes walk from my hotel i was excited. but gutted when it was sold out
but luckily i got a return ticket from the box office and enjoyed a marvellous evening. and was transported back to the time when i was a vague aquaintance of the great man in sheffield. in fact i once gave him a demo tape, which he lost, but apologised and said he had been looking forward to hearing my song ‘the death of bernie winters’