Less than four weeks to go in Wellington before we leave for the South Island. This is despite Sue’s employers begging her to stay at least until Christmas and even offering to help talk me round! She’s flattered and it was quite tempting to stay - after all, we’ve both got good jobs we enjoy and love the place - but we’d just be delaying the inevitable and could miss graduate recruitment deadlines. And, of course, we’re missing home.

I’m really looking forward to seeing the Marystaple gig on Friday. Dusty (my boss)'s almost finished the video for their first single, Labourer, I’ve listened to most of their unreleased album and the whole band seems to be half living in the office at the moment so they definitely feel like “my” band. They’re supporting a band headed by the actor that places Marshall from Shortland Street. Weird. It’ll kind of be like watching Tyrone from Coronation Street…