Yesterday, Wellington finally (for me) began to live up to its nickname of “windy Wellington” as the good weather of the past few days was blown away by gale force winds and rain. As we sat in our temporary apartment on Sunday morning, we noticed something: a strange feeling of movement. Yes, the building is actually swaying in the wind, and you can feel and see the movement up here on the seventeenth floor. It’s quite unnerving really, and I think we’ll be glad to be returning to ground level. The bad weather seems to have blown away overnight; we’re promised more of the same for the middle of the week, although the weather forecasting here seems to be as reliable as the UK’s.
Back in the flat, the carpet is being relaid today. This will take most of the day (there’s an amount of cleaning that also needs to be done at the same time), and we will be able to move the furniture back and finally start getting on with making the place a bit more habitable. The telephone and broadband were supposed to be connected today, but Telstra failed to do so. They’re now predicting Thursday. I hope their forecasting is more accurate than the weather.
We have the television working, after a fashion – i.e. we can receive all the terrestrial broadcast channels. I’m going to explore the freeview and satellite possibilities once we have a working internet at home. Blogs may be a bit intermittent until then.
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