We found out that the International Buskers Festival was on for a week in Christchurch and knew we'd have to get along to see some of the acts. We got Victoria Park where some of the acts were being held on a scorching hot Saturday afternoon. The first we saw was an impressive tumbling/comedy duo from Australia who performed for about 45 minutes. We were so impressed that we put $10 in their hat when they'd finished. Other performances we saw included a YoYo ac...

It had been months in the planning (well at least two). It was first discussed at the fated over-drinking at the Vespa Bar. Tom had got the tickets and we were off to enjoy the one day International cricket match of New Zealand Black Caps versus The West Indies.For the weeks leading up to this match we had been thinking that as it was in mid summer we would be sitting there in 35 degree heat watching a marvellous match of cricket unfold in front of us, enjoying t...

- Not the usual sort of blog entry but I feel that I need to let you know about a man called Adrian Collis. I have had the dis-pleasure of working with Adrian for the last few weeks. Now Adrian "calls" himself an engineer. That is about as far as it goes. I had no end of trouble working with him and often ended up spending 3 times the budget allowed for draughting constantly re-drawing all his mistakes. To top it off the man smelled like a rotting sewer...

In comparison to last weekend our time spent in Christchurch this weekend was very tame. We (us and Tom and Rachel) realised that we havent really done any touristy things in Christchurch, so, over a few after work ales on Friday we decided to hit the museums, parks and get out a kayak to take a trip up the river Avon. When Saturday rolled round and we managed to peel ourselves out of bed our list of things to do was getting shorter. We sacked the idea of kayakin...

It was finally time to join the working masses. After nearly 11 months not having to set an alarm or get up at half-past-ridiculous unless it was for something exciting, the thought of work was more worrying than actually getting back into it. I have started off as a structural draughtsman which is a new thing for me. But as I said in the interview, draughting is draughting and I am sure that I will pick up the knowledge on the go. So far I have been working with...