News today is Bridget has done an amazing job on our garden over the past couple of days. Box hedging, brustics fencing done and cabbage trees and a variety of other small shrubs planted. I was stoked I didn’t get home too much later as the sun was setting, so I could see the impact. What a Massive day she and her Mum had. It is great having them transform the outside, after Bridget and I got our team to transform the inside of our house.
Otherwise my toy arrived in time for the rugby world cup. I am a massive rugby fan, so I figure why not watch it in style. For I bought a new 55in LCD TVand it rocks! I have balanced this as Bridget doesn’t like rugby much, so been busy buying lots and lots of DVDs lately too. Visual pleasure.
News just to hand is that NZ has demolished Kenya in the ICC 20/20 International Cricket Tournament – the shortest game of 20/20 international cricket ever, with Kenya being rolled for jsut 73 including 6 ducks and 4 wickets for 7 runs for Mark Gillespie – magic.
Work tomorrow sees a Massive push to finish three jobs, and due diligence on an exciting development in beautiful Taranaki and on a couple of sections in central Auckland.
APIA Keynote Monthly Meeting Last Night
What a special night we had at APIA. Dr Don Brash addressed us and provided some highly advanced macroeconomic analysis and warned us about some house price reductions in certain cases (watch out apartment investors), the effect of New Zealanders being net spenders and not net savers, and John Banks told us some stories about his propertyand Business investments and talked about ineptitude in the Akld City Council. I had the opportunity to briefly talk to them both – so I took it. They are fascinating men and indeed great friends. They also share positions on the Board of Huljich Wealth Management (www.huljich.co.nz).
I loved the story of the Queen Street footpath upgrade from John Banks. It has gone well over time and over $20 million of the initial budget. They did both sides of the footpath at the same time which has hurt Queen Street retailers badly. And now the water mains under these hugely expensive footpaths are leaking! The lefties that run Auckland City Council do not treat ratepayer/council money as their own and this shows with numerous other projects. Who here knows if Auckland City ratpayers are meant to pick up the tab for the Eden Park upgarde for the Rugby World Cup IRB requirements?
John Banks will be getting my vote and I highly recommend all eligible voters in these local government elections vote, and vote Banks to open the books, cut stupid spending and give the central government a hard time.