I've only driven round New Zealand once ages ago but its obvious public transport isn't considered at all. Auckland I seem to remember being inordinately car friendly compared to most big cities, though I don't remember seeing any buses, etc but I assume there must be as its far larger than most New Zealand cities (towns really).

I loved The Mandalorian, thought it was brilliant, great story, characters and production.

I really want to like the Witcher but I'm struggling, on ep4 so far and it's not got me hooked. The stories just seem all over the place and none of the characters have really grabbed me. I've never played the video games don't know if that would have helped.
I'll see it through but a bit disappointed 😕

I finally finished it over the holidays - Loved it all the way through. It is a deliberate slow pace, its a modern western and intended to be and not the action packed rollercoaster the movies have become.
Witcher I am only 1.5 episodes into it. Interested so far but I think the score on it is amazing. The most streamed show of 2019 instantly apparently beating the Mandalorion so it is a big hit.

Hey everyone, welcome to 2020.


I am back in Sydney and burning Australia after 2.5 weeks in Auckland visiting family. Anyone who visits family for the holidays will know - It tends not to be a holiday, especially with two kids.


Had some good times, my boys got to open presents in 3 houses (morning, lunch and dinner) and then at home more bigger presents back in Sydney so they were very lucky. I moved between my wifes family home and my parents home visiting so that was back and fourth every few days. My wife, as always ended up either doing family stuff for rentals or cooking all her family (a lot of them) dinner, including xmas dinner or shopping and I spent most of the holiday looking after my kids, standing around shopping centres or in houses looking after the kids.


Anyone with kids as well will know when you are staying at peoples houses where they are not baby friendly is a lot of hard work, you have no safe zones as such so it is a lot of attention and they are out of routine a lot of the time so they are a lot of hard work. The 2 hour time zone difference may not be much for us but still sends kids out of kilter for a few days as well.


So it was a busy one, the fires in Australia were bad enough to blow over to Auckland a couple of time and turned the sky orange and had people calling the Police not know what it is and enough for them to come on the TV and tell people to STOP calling them, lol.

The Witcher just feels like side quests on the game with no substance, nothing in comparison to GOT.

Final episode of The Mandalorian got 100% on Rotten Tomatoes.

Mixing my spare time between The Expanse and Preacher, the latter season 1 was great but season 2 has noy hooked me.

we need some kind of game we can all play when we each randmoly log on :-o