Category: Life
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I am having a nervous breakdown
The package is still in the hands of DHL in the UK. It was collected from the Passport office in London only hours after I called. The women there turned it over in record time. But almost 24 hours later it is still in the UK. The call centre and the screen just say it…
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Keep those balls in the air, magic is brewing!
The package (my urgent passport renewal application) has landed in the United Kingdom and at 9.13 London time it was delivered to the New Zealand Passport Office. Thank you FedEx! So we have gained HALF a day. I just spoke to a lovely New Zealand girl in London and they are going to try and get…
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Tracking is Hell
Yesterday morning at 9 am I was standing outside the FedEx depot door when it opened, (it is a hundred mile round trip.) I did all that was necessary to have it shipped, including paying with an arm and a leg. I handed my precious envelope to a surly lady behind the computer. Explained that…
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Piglets set free and our trip is in jeopardy
The piglets have created a creep of their own under a door and into a lovely sheltered pen, their favourite game is to lie right down and roll with their legs tucked in under the door, scamper, then reappear under the door rolling over and over. You need to go outside, I said. So with…
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And then it rained…
Only hours before we were to gather to bale the hay. After I had turned it into its windrows and tested it for dryness. It rained. and rained. A 30% chance of a stray thunderstorm had appeared on the radar yesterday morning, and then in our sky that afternoon. And so I cleaned. When I…
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