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Post by Injeanious on Jul 20, 2012 8:44:19 GMT 9.5
Jema I am in Karori. Have been here for over 30 years - in that time have owned five houses and the one I am in now is in Landsdowne Terrace. You probably wouldn't know that street as it was developed fairly recently. It is at the top of the highest hill in Karori and so I get every wind going but also amazing sun. At the end of the year I am selling and moving to a new house on my daughters farm in Makara (you probably will know where that is).
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Post by jemasjottings on Jul 20, 2012 9:52:51 GMT 9.5
Oh, I know both areas although I bet they've changed a lot since I was there in 1973-74! I learned to drive around the Makara area and we would go to the reserves in Karori quite often. I actually lived in Waterloo and then Woburn in Lower Hutt, but worked in Welllington and had friends scattered all around the Wellington / Hutt areas. I'll bet you have amazing views across that beautiful harbour.
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Post by antlove on Jul 29, 2012 22:19:50 GMT 9.5
@ Jem - Sorry for my delayed response but Warhorse looks absolutely amazing!! Did you say you live in Syd?? cos we could totally go see it!!
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Post by Injeanious on Jul 30, 2012 14:20:19 GMT 9.5
This has not been a good day. An ex-colleague of mine who worked here for 18 months and then went over to our Johnsonville office 4 months ago committed suicide at the weekend. He was only 23 and it is such a waste!
Then I see that Dion Bilios is not in the cast of Jersey Boys anymore. Does anyone in Brisbane happen to know why? Jeff Madden is coming back as Frankie and he is great but I really liked Dion and he hadn't been in the role for long at all.
Then number three bad thing - I was looking at (I think) Aussie Theatre and they gave the cast list of Chess and Bobby Fox is not in it now. So I have a ticket for Chess that I don't want any more if someone would like it (for free). It is for the 21st August. It is pick up at the box office. Just let me know.
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Post by poppy on Jul 30, 2012 18:55:40 GMT 9.5
Oh Inj, my heart goes out to you and that poor boys family, 23 and so young! Sucks about Bobby Fox, I wonder what has happened! Maybe Jayko, unwinding or scuffa can take the ticket! (I'd buy it off you but I won't be here) Have you already booked your flights for aug aswell? Because the would be a double suck if you had to lose on your flights too!  |
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Post by jemasjottings on Jul 30, 2012 22:38:36 GMT 9.5
@ Antlove - I actually live in Brissie but am starting to travel to shows when I can. Would love to go with you ... but I've heard QPAC in Brissie has the largest stage so maybe it would be best to see it there if you're able  @ Inj - so sorry to hear that news. Such a waste of potential and so sad for his family  Two of my friends have had sons commit suicide - at home and with their sisters being the ones who found them - as you can imagine it has been so hard for them. |
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Post by Fredus on Aug 2, 2012 20:16:24 GMT 9.5
Inj, I'm so sorry. That's such an awful run.  |
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Post by antlove on Aug 9, 2012 10:01:35 GMT 9.5
I hope you're okay Inj! It's so hard and devastating when something like that happens! @ Jem - ohh for some reason i thought you lived in Sydney! I don't think that i'm going to be able to make it to QLD - not just yet anyways! I'm trying to save for a wedding  - in away Warlow's trip is making that SO much easier hehe! But if you're ever in sydney we should catch up! (i live about 2h from the CBD but could get there easy) |
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Post by jemasjottings on Aug 9, 2012 21:02:27 GMT 9.5
Hey Antlove - Your wedding?  If so - yippee!! When is it? And would love to catch up whenever I'm down there. Actually I'm there for a night when Lucy is doing her show "Songs in the Key of Black" on November 4 - probably will arrive that morning and head home the next day. Maybe we could meet then. Will let you know closer to the time what my full plans are. (Ummm, this isn't really venting any more, is it...) So to add a vent - ummm, the only thing I can think of ... for all our sakes I WISH ANTHONY WAS STILL IN AUSTRALIA ... even though I'm really happy for him... |
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Post by Evealle on Aug 10, 2012 2:12:19 GMT 9.5
My excitement at being in the same country as him (despite the hundreds of miles that separate us - I just looked it up; it's 869 miles) would be more suitable for the Jekyll thread, but at the moment it looks like I'm not going to make it up to see him so *heaves chair across the room* My silly mother doesn't care for the show, so, despite her love for Anthony, she refuses to take me. (Oh, it's probably a money issue too. *sigh*)
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Post by Injeanious on Aug 10, 2012 6:43:18 GMT 9.5
Eve - isn't there any way you could get there on your own? (Or are you too young?). Sorry, it is so hard to know how old people are on this board. 869 miles is nothing really in the scheme of things. Anything I want to see I usually have to fly from New Zealand to Australia because we get very few shows here in NZ (although we did get Anthony in Phantom three or so years ago, and of course JERSEY BOYS).
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Post by Marie-Cris on Aug 10, 2012 8:51:26 GMT 9.5
Eve, I'd keep pressing the point that it's a ONCE IN A LIFETIME opportunity. If it were me, I'd beg and beg and beg and beg.
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Post by Evealle on Aug 10, 2012 14:34:00 GMT 9.5
@inj - I wish, but I am probably a bit young for my parents to want me to. Definitely won't give up though. I may start pestering other relatives...
@marie - Oh, I HAVE. But I'll keep it up!
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Post by Fredus on Aug 12, 2012 18:44:53 GMT 9.5
Have you a birthday coming?
Or, for that matter, Christmas is only a few months away...
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Post by tori2210 on Aug 12, 2012 18:54:53 GMT 9.5
E we get very few shows here in NZ. ^This this this this this this this. The amount of professional companies visiting New Zealand is very very small. In fact, I think after Phantom back in 08 (wow, it'll be four years since I've seen it this October) we've only had one or two through. Though, Mary Poppins will be at the Civic in October and I am VERY excited. I missed out on JB sadly. The only upside I can see to this is that the amateur scene here has flourished. |
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Post by Injeanious on Oct 23, 2012 7:39:20 GMT 9.5
Things haven't being going too well lately. My lovely dog who suffers separation anxiety and lives down at my daughters farm, got very sick. My son-in-law's grandmother died and they had to go up to Hamilton for the funeral, so the dogs had to go into kennels. I got Harvey vaccinated as his vacs had run out, then they were taken to the kennels and were there for three days. Came home on the Thursday, Harvey was good. Friday Karen rings me and says she is taking Harvey to the vet as he was having trouble breathing. They said he had a respiratory infection and gave him antibiotics and said if he didn't improve over the weekend to take him back. Sunday he was really bad, I took him back to the vets and he ended up on a drip and stayed there for 4 nights. Took him home again., he relapsed and was at the vets for another 5 nights. Turns out he was bitten at the kennels and the dog who bit him obviously had some sort of infection which was transferred to Harvey. (The bite couldn't be seen as he has long hair). So my poor puppy with the trauma of the vacs and then the infection now has a comprised immune system and is not allowed off the farm (except to go to the vets). He can't go near other dogs (except for the ones he lives with), cannot be vacc'd again and has a greatly reduced life span. At present he is well and happy and enjoying life so we can only hope that he will be okay. This cost me almost $2000 and the vet is so nice and didn't charge for a lot of the things he should have. So my Jersey Boys trip to Adelaide has been cancelled. I have five tickets to give away if anyone would like them. They are single tickets for five different shows. Then the producers of JB decided to close the Brisbane show a day early and for the last show I had what I considered the best seat in the house. At least they refunded for the cancelled shows. So my trip to Brisbane was very short, arrive on Friday afternoon, go home on Sunday afternoon! And the cost of my new home on the farm keeps going up and up, and the sale price of homes in my area are going down and down, so what is going to happen I really don't know. If I can't get what I need for my house when I put it on the market in February I will have to end up converting the stable block at the farm to a house, which will be cheaper than building new, but not what I really want to do.
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Post by Fredus on Oct 24, 2012 8:53:34 GMT 9.5
Oh, Inj, that's awful! I'm so sorry that your Harvey is so sick. Maybe you'll be lucky and he'll still manage to have a long life. It wouldn't be the first time a dog has defied expectations. It's awful that the kennels let him get in a situation where he could get bitten and then didn't notice! Poor little man.
I'm really sorry that things aren't going well with the house selling and building. I really, really hope it all works out somehow. You deserve life to cut you a break.
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Post by Injeanious on Oct 25, 2012 7:03:55 GMT 9.5
Thanks Fredus. Would you or Marie-Cris know anyone in Adelaide who would like my JB tickets (for free)? As I said there are 5 single tickets, one for each show and I think the dates are the 9th, 10th and 11th November. I have checked and I can fill in a form and email it so that the tickets can be picked up by someone different. Let me know as I would love to give them to someone and not have them go to waste.
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Post by Fredus on Oct 25, 2012 19:30:56 GMT 9.5
I'll check with Marie-Cris (And she's currently sending a message to her niece about it). Unfortunately, because I live in a little non-social bubble, I only really know two people well in Adelaide and neither of them are ... musical types. Big tough men that they are. (I can't find an eye rolling smilie, so just mentally insert one here)
And ... I know my troubles aren't anywhere near as drastic, but I did some dog walking in the pound last week. I made the mistake of visiting the cat room and falling flat out in love with a rather gorgeous cat that spent nearly an hour rolling around in my lap and purring. So I talked to someone from the Dog Rescue (who I was helping with the walking) and she told me the cat had to have eight days in the pound before he could be adopted out and she'd give me a call when it was over. So I came home to wait patiently. (Well, 'patiently' isn't exactly the right word. I spend four days fretting. And we bought cat stuff. Because ... Cricket's stuff is sacred and not being used by another kitty). So I miscounted the eight days and thought it finished last night. I waited for a phone call and didn't get one, and before bed I sent a message via Facebook to one person about the cat, and emailed the woman in charge of the Wodonga Dog Rescue. Neither of the people I contacted were the one I talked to, and apparently she's the one that deals with cats. I figured that with messages coming from two directions, I'd surely hear from her today. It is now 9pm. I have spent the entire day constantly refreshing my email account and haven't moved more than a metre from my phone. I haven't gotten a call.
This is getting really stressful because I've been burned by pounds before. I dropped a cat in a couple of years ago and told them I'd take her if no-one else wanted to adopt her, then when I rang a week later to see how it was going, she'd been put down. I am freaking in a big way, I don't cope too well with stress and I cannot get in contact with this woman. I hate this.
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Post by Injeanious on Oct 26, 2012 6:11:06 GMT 9.5
Could you go and visit the pound today and see what is going on? I think that sometimes a personal visit is better than an email. Its really great of you to get a rescue cat rather than get one from a pet shop. Harvey was a rescue dog in a way. He was advertised on a dog site I saw by his breeder who kept him for a year and then decided she didn't want him any more. He is the most beautiful dog imaginable (in my eyes anyway) and is so loving and gentle but he was never trained in any way and was kept in a large garage with the breeeders other dogs and so has the very bad habit of wetting inside. So of course he can't stay inside overnight so he and Fritha the farm dog live in a shed. I would put up a photo of him if I knew how!
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Post by Fredus on Oct 26, 2012 7:25:40 GMT 9.5
Unfortunately, it's an unmanned pound, so it's appointment only. Which is really helpful when I can't get in touch with anyone! I (not so) secretly would like to get a Bengal cat, but I'm not really up for paying $800 or more - at the moment. Maybe one day, in the far distant future. So Marie-Cris and I decided a rescue cat was the best idea. I've heard a lot of stories about puppy farms and stuff in the last couple of years, so we got our dog from the pound (Blossom. I think I mentioned her at some point? ), and it just seemed natural to then rescue a kitty as well. As a bonus, if we do ever get in contact and get the cat that I fell for, he looks rather similar to a Russian Blue, which is a breed of cat we both love. Yay! It's a pity you can't get the photo up! However, we're sure to be in the same place at the same time again eventually, so you could always show me the photo then. Harvey does sound like a lovely dog. It's a pity he can't sleep inside, but these things happen! |
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Post by Fredus on Oct 26, 2012 11:04:17 GMT 9.5
Never mind, the cat's dead. Apparently he was sick or something and they put him down days ago without bothering to tell us. We only found out because Marie-Cris managed to chase down one of the rangers and he told us. I understand that animals get sick, especially in pounds where they're surrounded by so many other animals from all walks of life. I understand that sometimes they won't get better. I don't understand why they didn't tell us. They can't even claim that they'd lost my phone number, or forgotten that I'd put our names down for him, because we've been trying to get in contact with them for days and have scattered my phone number all over the place. I'd decided I wouldn't name him until he came home with us, but I'd been considering names and I'd picked a favourite. Marie-Cris was worried because he has to pass on without a name, so we've named him now. Rest in peace, Oscar.  And the really fun part of this is that it had to happen today. This time last year I lost my Cricket. |
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Post by Injeanious on Oct 26, 2012 13:07:10 GMT 9.5
Oh Fredus I am so sorry. It was obvious that you had really fallen for that cat and would have been a great mother to him. He looked really cute. Chin up and go and give Blossom a huge hug.
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Post by Fredus on Oct 27, 2012 8:28:25 GMT 9.5
Thanks, Inj. it was a bit devastating but I guess sometimes something just isn't destined to be. We haven't given up on a cat though. Despite yesterday's tragedy, we will be contacting the local cat rescue next week and organising a time to go meet the kitties. My sister suggested we go back to the pound and find another one, but I think the cat rescue might be safer. Most of them have been rescued from the pound anyway, and they're already wormed, desexed, vaccinated and micro-chipped, which means we're not going to fall in love with a cat that is ill.
And how's things over there now? Harvey is still okay?
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Post by poppy on Oct 28, 2012 9:38:44 GMT 9.5
Inj, sorry to hear that about your dog, that is so sad but I would be getting the kennel to pay for some of the vet bill! I'll be saying a prayer for you that everything works out for you! Sending you huge hugs! xx ...and Fred looks like you could do with some hugs too! ps. Inj, have you considered putting the JB tickets on Ebay??? |
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Post by Marie-Cris on Oct 28, 2012 21:26:41 GMT 9.5
Inj: Talked to my niece, she was interested but she's too scared to watch anything by herself (she's 18 ... ), and her folks can't afford to spring for another ticket so they can go with her (plus I don't know if they'd be interested in it). Sorry, I tried.
Poppy: That's a good idea ... both of them. Ebay should definitely work.
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Post by Fredus on May 15, 2013 15:41:13 GMT 9.5
I have a wisdom tooth that is doing something trippy (don't know what, shall have to go to the dentist. Yay), which has resulted in an enormous swollen (infected) lump on my gum and it hurts to open my mouth, plus my jaw, ear and throat seem to have been caught up in it and they're hurting too. I didn't realise it was going to be something drastic until Saturday morning, by which time I couldn't find a doctor to go to, so I spent all weekend with it festering away and, even though I got to the doctor yesterday, the antibiotics haven't kicked in yet and everything hurts.
Also, I'm not very good at the whole being calmly stoic thing, so poor Marie-Cris probably didn't have a good weekend either.
Oh, and my tiny little kitten now weighs the same as his mother. He's growing up too fast!
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Two of my friends have had sons commit suicide - at home and with their sisters being the ones who found them - as you can imagine it has been so hard for them.
- in away Warlow's trip is making that SO much easier hehe! But if you're ever in sydney we should catch up! (i live about 2h from the CBD but could get there easy) 
If so - yippee!! When is it? And would love to catch up whenever I'm down there. Actually I'm there for a night when Lucy is doing her show "Songs in the Key of Black" on November 4 - probably will arrive that morning and head home the next day. Maybe we could meet then. Will let you know closer to the time what my full plans are. (Ummm, this isn't really venting any more, is it...)
