hua rakau

Hua rakau meaning fruit tree in Maori. The first 'a' of rakau needs a macron (which is a short line written above it to denote a long pronunciation, as in car rather than bat) but I don't know how to add them using this technology! There are many native trees in New Zealand producing fruit. The kiwifruit is not among them - kiwifruit is Chinese, it's the national fruit of the People's Republic of China!

So we're moving to Dunedin in two or three weeks (life is so very vague sometimes) and hence we are house hunting and worrying about what I'm going to do for work and what it's going to be like etc. Meanwhile I am still working hard in Svend's garden and looking forward to taking some photo's to share with the blogosphere. It has been lovely here over the last few days and i have enjoyed being outdoors. I am a little nervous about the Dunedin winter, I hope it's no worse than Oxford!

Recreation has included a couple of games of chess by correspondence. I secretly hope I am winning in the first game but my partner has not sent me a move for a few days. I secretly hope that's because he knows I am winning! The second game is just opening and my partner is contracted in a major new movie production and may not be able to study his moves for a while. Oh well, these things can wait. We have also been to see the new Bond movie which was thoroughly entertaining, and Borat, which was thoroughly crass. No surprises there then. Lastly we saw the History Boys which is almost beyond description. We enjoyed it, and it is one of those thoughtful films you find yourself pondering over for days. I didn't ponder much over Bond or Borat, as you can probably imagine.