Party!!!

We had our housewarming party last night – DJ, bar, flashing lights, disco dancers, dry ice machines etc. and about 1,000 close personal friends.

OK, that’s not strictly true. Around a dozen people came for mulled wine and nibbles at 5pm on Sunday. As it had started raining and the wind blowing, mulled wine was very welcome to those coming in from the cold! Some folk were from Nicola’s work, others from various encounters in Wellington. Sadly, I have no friends of my own as yet. Note to self: must get friends.

One of the invitees is also a recent UK arrival, who works at the Carter Observatory, http://www.carterobservatory.org/ having previously worked just round the corner from us in the UK at the Greenwich Observatory. Having chatted for a while we have now made a plan to go and visit the observatory next weekend, then have lunch at the café there. We’ll be able to learn more about the Southern hemisphere’s constellations, and also have a look at the line-up of Venus, Mars and Saturn, which is particularly visible here. This visit will also give me the chance to go on the Wellington cable car http://www.wellingtoncablecar.co.nz/ which I’ve not done so far…so much to see and do, so little…wait, actually plenty of time!