Sunday, September 2, 2007

spring


Spring arrived on the first of september. Winter was good overall. It rains a bit but plenty of sun in between. I now do magic on only 4 nights a week for even more money. I'm tired alot and have no time to finish the house. it'll be a bit windy from now to december. Auckland is doing well and i'm fat again.

Monday, July 16, 2007

All good

All is well . Nice that Mart and Yan are thinking of coming over. Bit wet in August so I'd come xmas time myself. Not much to say as I've become a worker again and the system is a tad shocked. I think I like not working more than most people. 1'm going to put a picture up of my grapefruit tree as it's covered in grapefruit. This is to be expected but it's still cool.
My lemmon and Orange trees have let me down. About six on each. I counted 122 grapefruit on a small tree.
I'll count the lemmons and oranges in the morning just so I know for sure.
What's it all about , really I have know idea. Going to bed now
Night Yan
Night Mart
Night Penzo
noght Jim Bob.

Sunday, July 1, 2007

winter




The sunset is from our deck . It's mid winter now and really not to bad. We had one frost that was gone by 8.00 am and only around 6 cloudy grey days in the last year. Winter days average 6 hours of sunshine .It can chill down at night but the days are fine. If the wind comes up from the south it can get coldish . It can rain heavy and a few months ago we had 500mmm of rain in three days. Its hilly so it drains away fast. Today was wet and grey and reminded me of home. The home sickness is passed and now I wonder why I lived in the UK for so long.
I've landed a well paying job doing magic in the casino on week day nights. It pays around 30,000 pounds for the year. This is a very high wage in NZ. Well into the top tax bracket -shame. I only do 20 hours a week ..
If I keep the job for the year we will be right back on track. Deb is teaching full time for around 16000 a yr and she is well up the scale. So as you can see i'm donig ok.
Auckland is growing up fast and her illness seems to be going away. The truck is mine and I got it to help put the planet out of it's missery. It would be great if anyone came to stay but I guess that's not likely as its a long way and no one likes me.
Miss you all but not enough to come back.
Heard about the car bombs on the web, looked a bit crap like a moronic school boy job to me. If all they can manage is a bit of petrol and a camping stove then AL queda aren't all the are cracked up to be.

Saturday, June 23, 2007

Introduction

Gary Animals tales from a life miss spent are posted on this blog. It details the misery of life and the adventures born from a wrong decision taken during a moment of madness. It's mainly about me ,as that is really all I know. It's about moving to New Zealand. It's about nail biting,bed wetting and general insecurity. In other words all the ingredients that make up your average snivelling wreck. I'll post lots of pictures of my daughter and wife. This will be good for the family back home and it will have the added advantage , for those that don't know me, of making me look less self centred. The truth from within is that I view myself with a greatness unrivalled by god ("God" invention of mankind), yet at the same time know that when viewed from the perspective of an external entity I seem to be somewhat pathetic. Of course these external entities are mere illusions of my own making and their opinions could not count for less. This blog was to be called "The greatness of me", but why state the obvious.
All spelling mistakes and grammatical errors are nothing more than a thinly veiled attempt to make myself look more ordinary in the mistaken belief you'll like me more. Not that I care , your insignificance bores me. IF you were anything at all you'd be me and your not, I am.
When creating this illusion you call the universe I made two mistakes. Humans being one of them ,the other being New Zealand.
I have come to live in New Zealand in the hope of fixing it. Time is the real problem here. It does not seem to move forward at the correct rate. If it were a little to fast I could live with that, but it moves a tad to slow and over the millennium this has compounded resulting in country left behind. The dinosaurs are still long gone and the wheel has arrived. On the grand scale ,thirty odd years is nothing, but for visitors to these shores it's a little unsettling. Welcome to the seventies. Cold housing, poverty, racism ,little choice and crap clothing it's all here. Sounds like hell on Earth and yet that's the strange thing ,it's nearer to heaven on Earth than anywhere else I have been. Those bad things are simple lost among the grand beauty and slower place of life. It's hard to have consumerism in a shop with no stock. It'll all get here one day and perhaps that is to be wished against. Somewhere along the road we all lost out. Perhaps New Zealand's clocks are not running slow. Maybe ,just maybe, with all our technology with have speeded up time . Our clocks run faster and we have no way to register it from within. All your clocks agree and all are wrong. You'll not know it until with leave. You'll have to leave eventually so jump right out.
IT seems I have landed a well paying job doing magic at the casino Monday to Friday evenings. It's 22 hours a week for a year and pays 78,000 dollars. That's a huge wage here and I would normally be over the moon. Every cloud has a silver lining and conversely every pot of honey will turn into it's mother. The downside to this contract is I have to wear a micro fibre black suit with silver bits embroidered on it. In other words I have to look a complete twat. In my universe how could this be. It casts doubts on my greatness. I may be a lesser god . Never one of you ,but not much better
I start a week Monday.
They have a very tall tower so I may well jump. The stars on my suit will then appear to be shooting stars and make a little more sense.