{"id":144,"date":"2007-07-24T22:15:24","date_gmt":"2007-07-24T10:15:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/craig.dubculture.co.nz\/blog\/2007\/07\/24\/hello-from-cambridge\/"},"modified":"2007-08-09T09:58:08","modified_gmt":"2007-08-08T21:58:08","slug":"hello-from-cambridge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/craig.dubculture.co.nz\/blog\/2007\/07\/24\/hello-from-cambridge\/","title":{"rendered":"Hello from Cambridge"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hello everyone from \"sunny\" Cambridge, England.<\/p>\n<p>Leaving New Zealand was a bit of a mission - packing always seems to take longer than you think it will. Especially if you're moving house at the same time! There was a lot of \"this pile for now, this pile for later\", and much more humour in counting of socks than I thought possible.  After taking my \"this pile for now\" pile and cutting it in half, I was done, and only 90 minutes after we were supposed to leave for Auckland.<\/p>\n<p>I wanted to buy a camera bag at Auckland duty free - not even booze or cigarettes, mind you - but by the time I'd picked one and waited in line for 3 mins, they told me I couldn't as my plane was boarding.  So, if I was late on the plane (and there <em>may<\/em> have been some running to the gate), blame Regency!  (The camera bag was $24.95 in Auckland and is \u00a324.95 in a store here, so I might just wait a while.)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/gallery.dubculture.co.nz\/uk2007-cambridge\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/gallery.dubculture.co.nz\/albums\/uk2007-cambridge\/IMG_0741.thumb.jpg\" title=\"Cambridge house\" alt=\"Cambridge house\" align=\"left\" height=\"113\" hspace=\"10\" width=\"150\" \/><\/a>Sam and Zoe picked us up from Heathrow, and along with my friends Tom and Brendon, I've hired a house for a week. We're settled in nicely and <a href=\"http:\/\/gallery.dubculture.co.nz\/uk2007-cambridge\">uploaded some pictures<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>There has been some concern we might be six feet underwater; it's been overcast, but as Dave Dobbyn says, \"otherwise fine\".  We even went to a barbeque on Saturday evening.  It's definitely summer here.<\/p>\n<p>I have a temporary UK cellphone number - +44 7884 498 952.  Please use this instead of my NZ number until further notice.  Also, if you feel like catching up via Skype, I am <a href=\"callto:\/\/crb-nz\/\">crb-nz<\/a>, and will be online every now and then.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hello everyone from \"sunny\" Cambridge, England. Leaving New Zealand was a bit of a mission - packing always seems to take longer than you think it will. Especially if you're moving house at the same time! There was a lot of \"this pile for now, this pile for later\", and much more humour in counting [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[67],"tags":[58],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/craig.dubculture.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/craig.dubculture.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/craig.dubculture.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/craig.dubculture.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/craig.dubculture.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=144"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/craig.dubculture.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/craig.dubculture.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=144"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/craig.dubculture.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=144"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/craig.dubculture.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=144"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}