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A quiet day at the office

Not doing much today after the hell that was yesterday. I've added a whole stag of blog-links and I think we're basically done with the set-up of the site. So, trawling the www I found this amazing story about the Auckland Welsh Club bringing out Welsh child sufering from cancer for the Lions tour - brilliant work and double thmbs up to all involved. If you think you can help out visit their Website: http://ww.aucklandwelsh.com Also had a look for some Welsh girls names (well, you just never know when it mught come in handy ... ;-) Oops, gotta meting to go to - and then it's the Ministry-wide (Wellington based people) Chrosdtmas Do here in the building. Will be a lot quieter than the ITS "end-of-year briefing" and alcohol free for me ...

Despite what everyone tried to tell me, "Boyle", was never that cool ... oh, you already knew did ya :-) And Liz's surname wasn't that much better either (Eggleston) so we chose this name after a beach town, Riversdale , on the eastern Wairarapa coast of the NZ North Island [ ZoomIn map | Google Map ]. And why there? Liz and I have an affinity with Riversdale after being introduced to the place by a close friend, Emma . We often stay at her brothers' bach ( Kiwi for 'beach holiday home') and it was on our first visit that Liz, under the sparkling stars and within earshot of the ocean, proposed to me. Once we had decided to come up with a brand new family name it seemed appropriate to refer back to where it all began. And it sounds quite cool. And it's unique in the NZ phone book [Update 10-Jun-2014] There's a little more to just changing the name. After deciding that "Boyle" and "Eggleston" weren't going to

Alex Horne, Mark Watson, and Tim Key are all UK comedians and longtime mates. Sometime ago they created a silly game and during the (UK) lockdown they brought it back, playing over Zoom, and uploading each game to YouTube. Here are the rules, enjoy your own game with mates. Rules of the Game No More Jockeys is, traditionally, a two player game. A coin is tossed, and the winner decides which player begins. The first player names a person - usually a well known person or celebrity - followed by a category into which that person fits. This category is then eliminated ie. no other person named in the game from this point can fit into this category. For example. Jacinda Ardern, No More Policians. The opponent must now name a person who does not fit into that category, followed by a category into which his new person does fit. This category is then eliminated, too. The first player must then name another person, who fits into neither of these categories, followed by a new category into which

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[Updated] Change of name from Boyle to Riversdale - the reason

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