Tuesday 8 March 2011

Caterpillar slices

So it's my birthday tomorrow, and they knew I was coming at work, so they baked me a caterpillar cake.  Well - Mr Sainsbury baked it.  Tough crunchy casing, sticky smartie scales, eyes and nose...but, oddly, no caterpillar mouth. Brown and sugary.

One of the most gruelling tests of patience for me at the moment is waiting for the exchange rate to slowly rise before our move down under. A move of just one cent in our favour (i.e. a weakening of the kiwi dollar) means our savings will increase by about NZ$500.  So, if we see rates of 2.5 to the pound - by no means unreasonable; it was about 2.8 when I was first there in 2007 - we'll be NZ$15,000 better off.

That'd buy a lot of cake.

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