I considered getting a 12-month contract iPhone4 from Tesco. Hell, I was even on the waiting list.  But the fiasco with Apple and the antennagate issue and the long-lead in times for production after the massive launch put me off.

I decided to look elsewhere.

I decided to go Android.

After a little research, I bought someone’s unwanted upgrade HTC Desire on eBay for £280. A bargain, give these are retailing for £380-£400. It was meant to be Orange branded and locked to that network, but it turns out that it was unbranded and unlocked – which saved me no end of hassle and about£20-£30.

I had a bit of a wrestle getting to grips with some of the crashes that a relatively young OS like Android can throw at you – which was frustrating, but that seems to have sorted itself out now. It isn’t as slick as the iOS, but Android is growing on me rapidly. And the HTC Desire is a nice bit of kit a better phone than the iPhone, but more like a mini-computer than a device specifically built to enable you to consume media like the iPhone.  I have no idea how it compares to an iPhone4 but it is lightning quick compared to my iPhone 3G.

As I have hinted, the HTC Desire isn’t anywhere near as slick a product in terms of its integration with iTunes, and the videoplayer is nowhere near as integrated. But, I have found a player that will play some DivX and .avi files, which is a bonus in being able to get under the hood a little more than an iPhone.

So far, I’m pleased with my decision to divorce. Let’s see how long the new relationship lasts.  And please, let me reassure you: I am just talking about the phone here.

I have bought a flat in London, bought a house in Wellington. Kate and I have got engaged and married, and we have a baby on the way. Kate has managed to find a locum job that has kept her going until she handed her notice in today – no mean feat in today’s employment environment – and I have worked three roles as a UK civil servant; swine flu vaccine policy coordinator, general health policy manager, and now as a private secretary for the Minister of State for Health.

By anyone’s reckoning, that is quite a lot to happen in just one year. I wish I’d seen my friends a little more – both here and in NZ – and worked a little less. But economic times being what they are, and family responsibilities creeping upon us means that we have to hunker down for now. Who knows what next year will bring, but I hope to be back in NZ before too long. Or at least, away from London. The commuting lifestyle is just unsustainable and we aren’t the sorts of people who can afford to live a Central London life.

But still, we are happy in our little flat and our routing little lives for now. Until the baby appears at the end of December. Then I suspect that nothing will feel routine ever again.

The big news is that the certificate of approval finally came through for Kate and I and we were married on July 2 in a quiet ceremony in Richmond. We have just come back from a lovely relaxing weekend in the New Forest, which together with Oxfordshire, is becoming our go-to-place for a quiet weekend away from London. I expect we’ll be trying to get a few more of those is.

The even bigger news is that Kate and I are to be parents. Kate is 15 weeks pregnant now and the baby is due just after Xmas. We, and our respective families, are very excited – and also trying to pack in as much as possible before the baby arrives. We’ll be off to NZ in August for small wedding celebration over there and to do something over here too I expect sometime later in the year before the baby arrives.

Life is busy right now – and about to get even more so. Being a Private Secretary is interesting, but I’ll have to give careful thought as to how sustainable possible late nights in Parliament will be with trying to be a good dad to an infant.

I’ll post pics and a report later on.

Tonight is our last night in Cape Cod before we spend a day and night in Boston. Our motel here was a sweet deal. We got let downcby original booking – noone was there to meet us when we arrived. We tried a few places before a pla e with indoor swimming pool and jacuzzi. They asked me for my email address when we registered. I cheekily asked what I would receive for that information and was stunned when he said that there was an email list offer that expired that night for a 3rd night’s stay for 1c. So, we got a good show-up rack room rate made even better – effectively 3 nights for the price of 2.

I’m damn glad I asked.

I shall see what the next few months bring from a ringside seat. It should prove very interesting. In the meantime though, our holiday continues.

I got a message late last night that this work is going to be funded. Brilliant news. Especially as it also means that I will be on the HRC panel to assist with assessing future proposals. I’m proud to be working with such a great team. However, with changes that might be happening with my role at the Department of Health in the UK and my running commitments, and other personal arrangements (such as getting married with celebrations in both the UK and NZ), I think I am going to have to evolve rapidly: homo constantlyawakius

All is happening back there. I hope to FINALLY complete the purchase of a flat in Isleworth in mid-April. It has been a really long-time coming, with Kate and I living with others (which is very kind of my friend Rob and my folks) since July 2009. That’s a long time and we can’t wait to get our own space again.

There is also the very real possibility that I may be changing roles again at the Department of Health when I get back to London after this holiday. Circumstances are a little unusual so I can’t say too much right now, but will post when all is finally confirmed.

As if 1400 of the country’s finest cross-country runners wasn’t intimidating enough, I also had the course to contend with. I was wearing very inappropriate trail shoes with minimal grip when I should have been wearing lighter 15mm spiked shoes like everyone else. So not only was I relatively inexperienced having only run trail races, I also had bad equipment to deal with the monstrous cloying mud, downhills and cambers we had to deal with in two laps of the course. Not that I am blaming my tools – I really was out of my league. Even if I had better shoes, I’d still have only finished in the last quartile of this tough 12km race rather than the last 100. Others were kind and said that usually this race would be run over 8km, but I really did struggle. The most disappointing thing was that I finished with gas in the tank enough to run over to the rest of the team and felt like running some more. I was very under prepared and that cost me. Anyway, all good experience for this relative novice runner.

The second race in the series happened today, and went much better. This was a 10km run in Regent’s Park, London at 9am run by the Friends of MSF, and is the event that inspired to embark on this path in the first place. Today was a good day – I was well-rested,  well-fed and up for the challenge. I ended up running a great time for me in my first 10km tarmac race. I’ve run a few trail 10k races now, but only 5k races on tarmac / road. I ran today’s 10km in 45 minutes and 44 seconds – which is a pace of just over 7 minutes per mile. I’ve never sustained that pace over this distance before – not even in training runs, so I was very pleased with my result.

When I got home, there was even better geek fun to be had. I worked out my age-graded time. This involves taking my advancing years and into account and it compares my time with the standards that others at my time of life would run this distance after performing some kind of statistical corrections. When I first started running, my times put me at around the 48-50th percentile of equivalent aged male runners. Today’s race put me over the 60th percentile for the first time – 61st percentile means that I am now classed as a ‘locally competitive runner’ (70th percentile = regionally competitive, 80th percentile = national calls, 90th percentile = international class).

As well as being personally fulfilling through all the training and racing I’m doing, I’m of course looking to raise funds for MSF. Today, the racers and their supporters / sponsors raised over £20,000 for MSF – which is fantastic.

A big thank you to all of you that have sponsored me so far in my series of races. For those of you that have meant to sponsor me but haven’t got round to it yet, can I encourage you to follow the link and make a donation as soon as you can? Every bit helps, no matter how small – and encourages me a lot when I’m running for a good 100 minutes at a time covering 20km+ on cold London nights and mornings at the moment.

Here’s the link again: www.justgiving.com/sarbjohal

Please feel free to pass the link on to others or ask me questions if you feel like it. My workplace – the Department of Health – are publishing a ‘health & well-being’ feature on my in their staff publication next month, so hopefully that will bring a few more donations in too. If you know anyone who can help with publicity, or have any ideas, I’d love to hear them.

As a final sign-off, I’m now running half-marathon distance in my training runs in about 1 hour 50-55 minutes, and I’ve also added a new race to my schedule – the Oxon 40/20 (I’m doing the 20 mile version). I’m planning on running it in 5 mile chunks and treating it as a training run – it’s a bit of an orienteering mission, so I’ll take food etc. If you fancy joining me, give me a shout.

Will leave it there for now. Be great to hear from you and see your encouraging words on my Facebook and group wall and the donation site.

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Lots going on otherwise. I now have a house in Wellington and well into the process of Kate and I buying a flat in London, though it is so much slower here in the UK compared to NZ. We’re trying to figure out whether we are going to India or not next month, but we’ve got a couple of things going on that might get in the way of that.

My running is going well after my injury in November. Still seeing a physiotherapist as it isn’t quite right yet with my hip and lower back, but just starting to build up my runs again. I’ve just done my first 10 mile run this weekend (it was about 18km), and have signed up for the Berlin Marathon in September. But more about that in my next post, coming up shortly.

Running through recent events – Kate and I spent a couple of nights away in the New Forest National Park over the new year weekend, staying at a country inn and going for a couple of nice long walks. The weather has been icy for 4 weeks pretty much non-stop in London – and much worse in other parts of the country. This weekend has been a welcome respite from the relentless ice and snow, but it looks like the temperature will drop again later this week.

Work has been interesting again – I have joined the Quality Framework team at the Department of Health, which is much more NHS facing role. All the action in the NHS over the next five years will be about delivering consistently high quality services in a fiscally challenging environment – it will really be the story of the entire public sector as a result of the events of recent time. The next few months should prove an interesting challenge, and I’m looking forward it.

I’m stepping up my running again after some more physiotherapy. Things are easing up in terms of pain, and my current physio seems confident that the problem is located more in more lower back than elsewhere. I have a challenging race next weekend in Portland, Devon. The last 10km I ran was completed in 54 minutes. The average time for a man in this race is 1 hour 24 minutes! And the elevation map of the course looks positively horrific.

The latest on the accommodation situation is that we are still out in Hayes, staying at my parents’ place – who are kindly let us stay with them while we try and figure out something more permanent. As I think I posted previously, I bought a house (!) in Wellington, and this is now going through the final stages of the purchase. We’re also in the preliminary stages of nailing down a flat to buy in Isleworth – more of a modern pad for when we’re in London, in a reasonably accessible and nice part of town. I thought we were there but we might have a last minute change of mind – we’ll see what the next day or two brings.

You’ll be able to tell that I’ve got a lot on at the moment. Apart from the running, not a whole heap of travel lined up – but we’re only just back from NZ really. We’ve a trip to Amsterdam booked in for the end of this month, and then probably India on March on some frequent flyer miles, if I can get the right dates. After that – I’m not really sure. Possibly back to NZ for a visit / work in August – maybe New York somewhere along the way.

And that was the news, for now.

And much has happened this year:

• I have moved from NZ back to London – not sure how long for, but I’m here for now
• Kate came too
• I had a month long Fellowship in Japan
• I ran workshops all over New Zealand and went back in November this year to run some more
• I wrote, produced and was the talent for an educational DVD that has distributed all over the emegency management sector in New Zealand
• I have started work at the Department of Health in the UK as the Swine Flu Vaccine Policy Coordinator, while maintaining my business in New Zealand
• I secured a promotion at the Department of Health to Policy Manager in the Quality Framework Team, starting in the New Year
• I have secured honorary positions at the School of Psychology, Massey University, NZ and the National Centre for Neurology and Psychiatry, Tokyo, Japan
• I attended a training course at Fordham University, New York
• I had a paper published in the New Zealand Medical Journal
• I bought a house in Wellington (subject to various conditions being met) and am looking to do the same in London
• I turned 40
• I took up running, with some gusto
• I played a lot of cricket, both in NZ and in the UK
• And best of all, Kate and I got engaged to be married.

Along the way, I have met some fantastic people, traveled all over New Zealand, to Japan, the USA, Sweden, the Netherlands, and France. I have renewed old friendships and rekindled connections with my family through being back in London. I think this has probably been one of the more eventful and satisfying years of my life. In fact, the decade started with my clinical training at University College London, which was one of the better decisions I have made in my life, as was my decision to go to New Zealand. But more reflections about the decade in another post. For now, I feel happy to be alive, to be sharing my life with wonderful people, satisfied with my achievements for the year and challenges for the next, and grateful for the privileges that my life has afforded me, compared to many, many others.

From a personal point of view, it has been a brilliant trip too. Kate and I have had some fun in Wellington – though I was working much of the time. I got a good game of cricket in – we lost, but I bowled well and hit an unbeaten 19 coming in at No. 9 trying to hit 30 off 7 overs to win. We fell 9 short, but I did enjoy pulling a big 6 over deep square leg with Josh’s new bat. I completed by Triple Continent Challenge, running a 10km cross country race in England before I left (in hail, thunder and lightning), a 5km race in Santa Monica on the stopover to NZ (finished 7th in my age group, 41st out of 447 runners), and then a 5km race in Wellington.

Then finally, a lovely side-trip to Taupo, where I caught my first trout and had a great time with Kate’s family. There’s more – but I think we’re boarding soon, so I’d better shut up shop. Until LA.

So far so good – the instructors and knowledgable and great presenters, and the exercises have been fun and thought-provoking. The food is great and the campus is very pretty. If only I could run …

Last weekend, we went ring shopping in Hatton Garden. For those who don’t know, this is the Jeweler’s Quarter of London, and almost gave me a heart attack as soon as we stopped at the first shop. There were rings at over 10,000 pounds. That is about NZ$25,000. Way too rich for me. However, we did choose a magnificent, which I duly took out a mortgage for – and it will be ready to pick up in a couple of weekends time. I’m sure those of you who know me will see it in due course.

Thank you, lovely Kate – you’ve made me very happy

Will get it checked out before we’re off to Paris for the weekend on Oct 23rd.

I’m not sure how long I’ll stay in this job though – I have opportinities to move on to do things other than the repetitive briefing and correspondence work I have been managing over the past 3 months. I should be in a position to something more about that in the next week or so. Until then, more of the same next week.

People avoided eye-contact as a  rule, and even if you said ‘Hej’, or whatever, you tended to just get a puzzled look in return. Not really teeming with positive vibes. Of course, it is hard to make a rounded judgment after only 4 days. But we spent almost 500 pounds on a budget that included sandwiches for packed lunch and self-made porridge for breakfast. I only had 2 beers out, and a few coffees & hot chocolates with Kate, and we stayed in a twin bunk in an ex-prison cell. Hardly what I’d call extravagant.

We spent a lot of time in Gamla Stan, scene of the Royal place and Bloodbath Square. The Swedes seem to have a touch of the dark about them. We certainly noticed it.

So I have succumbed and bought myself a Garmin Forerunner 405 bells and whistles GPS watch with heart rate monitor on eBay. It’s pretty pricey, but I think I’ll get a lot of wear out of it to be honest, the way my running is going. Will be fun to have it with me when out and about hiking and traveling about over the next few months overseas too, without having to worry about racking up data costs if trying to track my path using the iPhone.

I’ll post about how I get on with it.

I’m also traveling quite a lot by my legs as I’m really liking running at the moment. And my capacity to do so seems to be improving nicely. I’m able to knock off 10km pretty easily and have run about 38km over the past 5 days, including a recovery day with no running. I have developed bits of my calf muscles I have never had before. And my knees are perfectly fine. Running is also proving really effective in countering my post-40 slowing metabolism and as stress relief for the slightly unsatisfying work conditions I find myself in. Never thought I’d say it, but I think I’m hooked. Trying to make the running thing a habit, and I think it’s working.

A day out of the office though tomorrow. Gives me small relief from the swine flu vaccinefest.

Met some great people too – especially my room-mate (dorm accommodation at Fordham), Niroshan – a retired Sri-Lankan Army Major and Drew, a teacher and clinical social worker in NYC. It was great fun to hang out with Drew and his girlfriend, Erin at the weekend, watching a Minor League Baseball game out in Coney Island, Brooklyn, and then hanging out over 4th July weekend. But now, I’m at the airport preparing to head back to London. I arrive at 10am on the 9th of July, and Kate arrives at 10pm – she’ll be in the air right now en-route to London and about to land in Singapore.

More later.

Missing Wellington already (but it is nice to be warm).

We’re about 3 hours into the flight and I have watched Watchmen, which for an unfilmable graphic novel I thought they did a brilliant job. The soundtrack was very good too, though it was a little spooky when they played ‘All along the Watchtower’ at a key point in the movie. Kate and I have watched all 4 seasons of Battlestar Galactica over the last 3 months. If you’ve watched it, you’ll know how key that particular song becomes as the series unfolds. It has become a bit of a fixation of ours – although the BSG franchise seems to favour the Bob Dylan version, and Watchmen uses Jimmy Hendrix. Still, when I heard the first few riffs, I sat up bolt upright and expected to see Saul Tigh grimacing one-eyed into the camera, muttering, ‘…it’s coming from the SHIP!’

I don’t think this A380 is talking to me quite yet, though it has managed to keep the door to Singapore Airlines open. After the flight from Auckland to Singapore, I had decided to stick to Air NZ pretty much exclusively. However, if prices were considerably different, or Singapore airlines manages to smarten up the 777 Singapore – Auckland leg, they could be back in the game.

It looks like New Zealand authorities are beginning to pick up their first cases of community based transmission of Influenza A (H1 N1), and some of those cases are in Wellington. So, it looks like scrupulous hand-washing and hygiene practices for me to keep myself well before I go to the UK – though cases are increasing rapidly there too.

I still have relatively little idea as to the exact role I will be going into when I arrive in the UK, after my course in New York. I am slightly disappointed in the level of communication I am receiving from the Department of Health over there. I am now technically jobless and don’t know what I’ll be doing after I arrive in London – and from Tuesday, Kate is in the same boat. I’m sure it will all come out in the wash, but the uncertainty is a challenge that adds to the turmoil of the move.

I had a surprise in store. As the shabad are sung in the Gurdwara, there is a now a big projector screen on which a computer projects the shabad lyrics in both pubjabi, gurmurkhi and english scripts. Quite amazing. It was nice to catch up with people and I definitely want to be back there at least one more Sunday before I go to London. The rest of the weekend was in in Waikanae with Kate and her father Tim – and a cold night it was too. Winter really has hit New Zealand over the last week, blowing autumn aside with a cold blast up from the antarctic.

I’m still unsure as to what work I will have when I get to the UK. At the moment, it looks like nothing. I hope I’ll be able to sort something out over the next 6 weeks or so which is when i will be available for work. And Kate is in the same position. I have two weeks left at work in NZ, then off to the UK briefly before the course in New York, and then … uncertainty. We’ll have to ride that out for a few weeks yet. Until then, packing, making the most of what Wellington has to offer, and getting to the finale of Battlestar Galactica. It’ll be good to have certainty in that at least.

Kate arranged for us to go to the Shearer’s Quarters which was very pleasant but unfortunately had a preponderance of flies that kept appearing out of nowhere. I think this must be a recurring problem as a can of fly spray was readily to hand. We must have seen 200-300 of the blighters over the two days we were there. But it didn’t detract from a lovely weekend, chugging up to Woodville to see Kate’s ancestral home, Mount Bruce, and even a guest appearance by the Tui Girls who were on location at the Tui Brewery for a photoshoot. Even though the weather was miserable throughout, I enjoyed the weekend immensely, especially making friends with a Kokako who insisted on flying right up to my face, clinging on to the wire and whispering ‘ko-ka-ko’ when we went to that aviary.

The exciting bit was when I overheated in the magnificent bath and passed out on the floor when I got out. To be on the safe side, Kate and I went over to ED at Wairarapa Hospital (fortunately just down the road), as I was a little disoriented when I came round a few seconds after passing out. For a second or so, I actually thought I’d been to sleep, but couldn’t remember going to bed. They gave my blood pressure and pulse a work-up and also hooked me up to an ECG and I checked out fine. They even shaved bits of my chest so they could get a good read on the pads that fed into the ECG machine. It now itches like crazy and I look like a mangy cat.

An odd way to get a health check-up on the eve of my 40th birthday, but there it is.

I’ve been working on this for a few days now and I have managed to get myself enrolled on the course, and this afternoon have also secured funding for me to attend from London. I am just so totally happy that this is going to come off. It’s thrown a few other complications into the ring – for example, I’ve now changed my leaving date from Wellington to go to London to 19 June. But overall, it’s a great opportunity and I’m, very pleased I can make it work financially too.

Now, I just need the stars to come into alignment concerning that supposed job I have in London …

I’ll try deleting that post and see what happens. I also have one particular post that seems to be a complete spam magnet. Anyone else get that on their self-hosted WP blog?

Another concern is the rapid increase in the number of cases being reported amongst high-school students the Kansai region of Japan. We can be pretty sure that this is the tip of the iceberg as many of those with mild symptoms will not have ben tested, and even though schools may have been closed, many students are still mixing together in local karaoke clubs.

I’ve been working hard here, including getting a briefing here at the Ministry of Health just two hours after getting off my flights from Japan. I have spent a little time working in the National Health Coordination Centre and contributed to providing occupational health advice for working in this setting. We now have 100-plus people rostered into this facility. I have also worked to provide psychosocial support guidance for those people affected by quaratine procedures.

The scenarios that every fears are probably one of the following: that H5N1 combines with Non-seasonal A H1N1 to produce a highly pathogenic flu strain with some resistance to tamiflu, or that Seasonal A H1N1 combines with the Non-seasonal A H1N1 virus. Although Non-seasonal A H1N1 is treatable with Tamiflu, seasonal A H1N1 is resistant.

In the meantime, the initial scramble to respond is over, at least in NZ. We’re now planning carefully to understand how we might best respond to various possible scenarios. I imagine most other national and international health organisations are doing the same.

But, lingering for a moment just on my last few days here, I have found my time at the National Institute of Mental Health to be very helpful and productive. It is both inspiring and reassuring to see that both NZ and Japan are using the IASC Guidlines to shape our work concerning psychosocial interventions in disasters. Dr Kim and Dr Suzuki have been great in letting me take their time, in explaining all the various different research and training they’re involved in. It’s been an absolute pleasure. Dr Yamada and Inagaki have been the perfect hosts, even taking me out to a Yakitori bar in a few minutes on my last night here in this part of Tokyo.

Tomorrow, I head out to Sapporo through Haneda Airport, for a night in that city, staying in a spa capsule hotel. Should be ‘an experience’. Saturday night in Sapporo should prove to be interesting too. After that, a few days rest and recharge in Shikotsu kohan, a small tourist village by a lake, framed by mountains and volcanoes, in a National Park, south of Sapporo.But it’s going to be cold, with temperatures around freezing at night, and around 10 degrees during the day.

I probably won’t have net access for a few days after tonight, but I’ll be back in Tokyo for one more night on April 29 before heading back to NZ. I’m sure time will continue to fly, but I’ll do my best to slow the clock and enjoy every last moment.

For now, this feels like home – Tokyo, that is. What with all the traveling over the last month or so, I have almost spent as much time in this hotel in Kokubunji as I have in my own bed.

It’s often said that the people in Osaka can be said to exhibit a certain ‘joie de vivre’ and humour that is not present in other cities. And that has certainly been true in both this visit and my previous time here. It is interesting how many times i have been referred to as, ‘Monsieur’ in shops and cafes, and how many French as well as English themed cafes there are in Kansai, as I certainly noticed this in Kobe too.

The poster presentation Mitsu and Masatoshi put together (which I contributed to) went well at the Japanese Suicide Prevention Association Conference yesterday. I got some interesting questions about more broad issues such as the importance of spirituality to mental well-being, and how the NZ government thought about this or tried to promote this. A further conversation this morning made me realise what a tricky topic this is in japan, after the Allies insisted on a complete separation of religious activity and Government in forming the new constitution for Japan after the Second World War.

I met a lot of interesting and friendly people at the reception party and endured a lot of no-doubt impressive formal speeches, as is the Japanese way. I also made a few interesting connections which I will follow-up on when I get back to Tokyo on Tuesday. In the meantime, I’ll attend lunch at the conference today, and then wait for my friends Maki and Yas come to pick me up at 1.30. I met them as they put me up on the homestay programme last time I was in Osaka. We have kept in touch and they have invited me to go and stay with them again tonight. Last time, they took me to an onsen, the biggest sushi conveyor belt place I have ever seen, and an impressive temple. I wonder what they have in store for me this time?

Tomorrow: Kyoto.

This area of town also houses the WHO Knowledge Centre, which I am visiting later this afternoon before I head to Osaka and the Suicide Prevention Conference which is happening there over the next couple of days. I also visited Dr Kato and Dr Osawa at the Hyogo Institute for Traumatic Stress in HAT yesterday, as well the Disaster Reduction Museum – which is one of the better museums I have ever been to. But the initial sound a light show really is quite shocking – not something to go an watch if you’re of a nervous disposition. I found my heart racing just a few seconds in to it.

So far, I’ve been impressed by the quality of work and thinking I have seen, and the candour with which people have talked to me. Some have seen a little mystified as to why I wanted to meet with them, but the clouds seem to disappear once I mention the JSPS Fellowship. I’m not sure what that is about.

Its a bright sunny day here, so I think I might source a bit of sushi and sashimi from the super market next door and go for a walk by the water’s edge.

Speaking of active, I’m not doing nearly enough exercise. In fact,I’m not sure where to. I don’t seem to stay near any parks or open space, so unless I get up before dawn, there doesn’t seem to be any way of doing much in the way of running until I get to Hokkaido. What with my sedentary lifestyle here (apart from tramping the streets gawking at everything), and my rushing around NZ  running workshops last month, I’ve noticed I’ve started to pack a little weight on. Will need to sort that out when I’m back in Wellington and nip that in the bud pronto.

Happy, yes. But need more active.