Had a nice time in Rotorua, despite the cold, the wet and the wind, as well as the sore throat of Peggy's. Went to a hot pools, and had a nice long soak. It was fine until you had to get back out of the water. Fortunately there was a really hot pool where you could store up sufficient thermal energy to get you back into the changing rooms and dressed again. The weather was really quite good, considering. Up north, they had a heavy storm, and several towns were completely cut off. Even in Auckland the power was off across the region for at least 12 hours, and numerous trees were down. But it had all blown off east by the time we came back up again.

Fixed the trampoline. I've mended a few tears in the safety net, and anchored it with a couple of small logs buried underground. I remember the technique from a scout camp once, where they buried a large log and then got everybody on the rope trying to pull it up. Then they fed the rop through a pulley, (thus multiplying the force by four) and tried to pull it vertically upwards out of the hole. The rope broke. So I'm confident that the trampoline won't be sailing over the fence, unless we have a full tornado, in which case the house will probably be following it.

Preparing for the trip to England this week. I've managed to find the English driving licence, and I'm compiling a list of things to take and bring back. I'm told there's a lot of stuff of Dad's that I could use, so I'm going to leave room in the suitcase...

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