A weekend in Dunedin

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The weekend actually started with a little bit of Dunedin coming to me, as Friday night salahdra visited on her way north.

The trip down was mostly uneventful. A detour through Geraldine for slothphil's cheese, lunch at Temuka, a half-hour stop while I had a fact-finding meeting with a work customer. Arrived in Dndn, delivered people to accomodation (thanks to quoth_ravynne and co. for the floor, slothphil for the airbed loan) and forced myself to take a nap in preparation for the party.

The party itself started off a little slower than I had expected but eventually built up quite nicely. xenogram had liberally sprinkled the playlist with songs to which I like to dance, unfortunately I wore out fairly quickly.

There was an amusing incident with an attempted gatecrasher (hereafter referred to as the "goatcrasher"). I picked up more or less where micheinnz left off when she was summoned to the dance floor and played door. The retreat to the gate when he challenged me to "step out on the street" with him and I, already taller and standing on the doorsill to boot, did my best loom and and asked if he wanted to take me on right there, was entertaining. I don't get to be intimidating very often.

It wasn't until Miche returned that he gave up trying to talk his way in though.

Ran a couple of carloads of people to various places, including one via a convuluted route which led to my pointing out to the navigator (who should have known this aspect of my familiarity with Dndn) "You could have just told me it was next to [x]'s place!" Finally got to bed about 3am.

Determinedly had brunch @ Capers the next morning before leaving. Had another work meetng on the way back - was asked by the client "are you related to the Xs from Y" . I get that question quite a lot, but it's not often I get to reply with "I am an X from Y!" Turns out they used to purchase rams from my grandfather. That extended the trip somewhat, and we got a trip out to see their deer (which I'm hoping slothphil will post photos of, as I neglected to take my camera out with me).

There followed the long, hot trip home, some post-trip phonecalls and a solid night's sleep.

Photos to follow, possibly tomorrow. A good couple of days work came out of the trip.

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Ooh photos!