It's true and I have proof

You know what "they" say - when a man gets sick he is dieing?

Well I now know that it is true. I started the weekend with a cold, which didn't go away over Saturday and Sunday. Monday I headed to the doctor, who gave me a chest x-ray and told me I have pneumonia. So it is true - when I have a cold I really am in danger! All my demands (orange juice, etc) need to be met immediately because I could expire at any moment!

Sunday Night in Hong Kong

It is Sunday night and we are just back from having a long lunch with some friends who live on the New Territories side of Hong Kong, just about at the China border. It was good to take the car for a little spin and get out of the city - that part of HK is very beautiful with tropical forests and steep hills/mountains. Our friends have a lovely older house over four levels, with a pool in the backyard. The trade off is that it takes well over an hour to get into HK city in rush hour, and the tolls would cost over 100 HKD per day. Public Transport is not really an option, so you would need a carpark in town as well. Put that all together and it explains why we live in an apartment in Pok Ful Lam rather than a house in Tai Po :0)

Andrew is busy trying to enter goodness knows how many months worth of expenses into his works reimbursement system - never his favorite job, and definitely generating some grumps! He is off tomorrow to Japan for the week. It was good to have him home for the weekend.

Not much else to report - life is just ticking along here. We are looking forward to visitors in August, September and October, and trying to work out the best time for Andrew to take some time off and head to a beach - maybe late August will work out. We sent the plans for our house off for pricing last Friday and hope to start building pretty quickly - the slow market in NZ should work to our advantage with the builder saying he can start as soon as the permits are granted by council.

Boring news I know..... but that is it for now!