Kennedy Building, Wellington

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

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