Forward and frolic glee!

Hullo to all our beloved friends and readers! I've just been spending a few happy minutes going through the archives of the blog, and its fabulousness reminded me that I really ought to post with the news de jour. Well, how lovely things are here in Wellington. We have been truly blessed, finding a beautiful place to live and some great friends. I suppose the biggest news I should write about is the decision I came to last week to stop looking for work. After five weeks of jobs searching and stress I realised I was making myself miserable, which is the very last thing I wanted to do on this trip! I decided to give up the job hunt and do what I really wanted to do more than anything, which was spend the rest of my time here in Wellington writing. So I've set myself a financial budget (which so far I'm sticking to) and for the next six or seven weeks will sit in front of the computer bashing out as much as I can (whilst researching short story competitions etc, so I can hopefully start sending off things that I've written when I get back to the UK). If this all seems a little self-indulgent, well, it is. So there. But my goodness, I'm happy doing it!
Other than that, there is not anything major major to report. We just had a glorious weekend, consisting of dinner, rugby and drinks on Friday night with our mates, a lovely walk around the coast on Saturday in search of the elusive red rocks which we're yet to find, and 'The Fellowship of the Ring', at the Embassy cinema on Sunday. We're also yet to find Sean Bean's seat in the cinema, but we have found his favourite pub, though there's been no sightings of the great man himself. Our friend Caitlin did see John Rhys Davies in Auckland, wow! After I was struck with bizzare cravings to see 'Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves' all weekend we got it out of the video shop and watched it on Monday night, our living room heaving with all our friends. Man, it was good. But I was disturbed how young Wolf looked on it... the last time I saw it I fancied him, which means it must have been an awfully long time ago! So that is you up to speed, and I will skidadle with the Sheriff's words: "Cloosse the Postttt!"