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Gidday folks.

Hope all is well in your respective hoods. The Hatsukaichi is grand.

First off, thanks again go out to those who came along to drink our booze and eat our food ONE YEAR and a couple of weeks ago for our knees-up nuptual party. Thats right!! One year ago. Crikey. Now traditionalists amongst you will be noting that the first anniversary present is paper but we decided that this was crap and have revised it somewhat. The First Anniversary present is now 60gb and 30gb iPod Photos. Woohoo!!

I love rewriting traditions. For any who are interested Santa will be doing away with reindeer as of June (the NEW Christmas - we voted) and will henceforth be dragged by dwarf clowns.

Anyway. Back to our shiny shiny shinys. They are stupidly large (in capacity, they are sexily sleek in design) and are bloody good fun. We are currently sitting on around 21gb in songs, necessitating the purchase of ANOTHER shiny shiny shiny - that being a 160gb external hard-drive. Mmmmmm 160 gigs. Paupers prison here I come!! The only problem now is the obsessive compartmentalising and organisation of songs that I am having to fight on a daily basis. It's actually pretty tough. There are those out there that can sympathise. This much I know is true.

Nic also managed to get herself a wee handheld printer that instantly makes polaroids out of photos that you send infra-red from your cellphone. Thats right. We live in the future. And we are now poor in it.

So it was a fun time. It's been a grand year, what with the nuptuals, the new jobs, the move down here to Hiroshima, the Shane, the Jon, the Melody, the Dazza and the Ben popping over and a bunch of other good times. We look forward to a bunch more.

We had another Sausage Sizzle the other weekend as part of work - introducing the k1w1 culture and all - and a roaring success it was. 150 sausages sold out in 2 and a bit hours. Grand. We had the stall at the citys Cherry Blossom Festival, unfortunately it seems the Cherry Blossoms were still on holiday in the south of France and so didn't come. Although the thunder, lightning and torrential downpour did!! That made up for it.

Oh no, thats right. The weather made it sort of crap.

Still, the Cherry Blossoms did come out in force this last weekend. It's a bloody good time to be in Japan. The country goes bonkers over them and rightly so. They have parks, lanes, roads, alleys, riversides and the like dedicated to them. Sure we have the odd cherry tree blossoming in NZ but when you have 400 mature trees lines up in a row, all lit up and all laden with flowering goodness, it can be quite a sight. It also means that it is warming up. So thats a plus. Speaking of which, one week ago we had the heater on and it was 8 degrees during the day. Two days ago it was 27 degrees and about 70% humidity. Ooooh. Sweaty.

Right-o.
I'm off.
Have fun.
berin.