Wayne Potgieter

Big brother is always watching... I am really sorry for what you are going through. Dementia is difficult for everyone, and being far away just complicates things even further. Yes, the Visa my in-laws applied for was via an Expression of Interest. They basically filled out a series of forms to express interest in relocating to NZ permanently. Each year, they select 2,500 applicants from the pool of interested parties, and then you get a few months (i think it was 4) to submit all your documents and obtain medical clearance. Then if successful, they are issued a 10 year permanent resident visa, but theoretically, after 5 years they can apply for full citizenship. The EOI took 2 years to be selected (at the end of the two years, they remove your name from the pool, so we just scraped through) and then the actual visa processing can take up to 17 months. https://www.immigration.govt.nz/visas/parent-resident-visa/ Not sure how the medical might impact your situation. Ironically, my in-laws came over for december and my wife and her mom had another huge fallout - my MIL is an absolute piece of work, and now she is refusing to move over. What a waste of time and money. I paid $5,800 for that visa.

Yeah. We did think of that. But ideally we want a few different sizes.

Special thanks to @hansolo for sending me the files. I have printed it and will ask wifey to test it this weekend. After printing it, she came into my office and looked at it rather puzzled and then started laughing. We then realised this looks a lot like an adult toy.

Omg. I am so sorry Denise. These hub aliases have me all confused. Luckily my hub alias is easy to associate with my real name. 😂 I will edit the original post, but the sentiment is the same. You are an Angel.

arrrggghhh - doing my head in with this design! Can someone please come to my rescue! My wife does a lot of pottery but has recently hurt her hand and found a device that assists people with centering clay on the wheel. I want to print multiples in different sizes but need a single STL file to begin with and I have no idea on how to do this. Is anyone keen to give me a hand (pardon the pun) to create the STL? Here is an image of what I want to create

Hey @DJR - Here are a few more from some recent foraging.

Yes, part of the MYcena family. Given NZ is pretty cool and wet most of the time, its a fungi hunters paradise! I am totally obsessed with taking macro photos of them all. Will share a few more...

Forest Treasures

City Buildings

Kepler Hiking Trail

Haresfoot Mushroom

My in laws have just been selected for the Parent Visa Category. Might be time to move on from NZ LOL.

Bambulab for the win! Great advice here.

My in laws have just recently retired and are planning spending 6 months touring NZ. I am contemplating either kitting out a vehicle with rooftop tents, awnings etc, or buying a Jayco Swan Outback camper trailer and letting them loose. Dont know if I can handle six months of house guests Anyone on this thread into this sort of thing?

This is amazing. Did you design this yourself?

Low Tide

Local duckpond. Sony A6700 with Sigma 18-50mm F2.8

My Mrs is in AU for a couple of weeks for work, and for the first time since we arrived in NZ, we are increasingly becoming tempted by AU. Change of scenery Weather Slightly lower cost of living more places to adventure

My delicate sensibilities!!! Thats all good.

Likewise. Sorry I was a bit Frazzled. Had been stuck in traffic trying to get there and was super not excited about my trip. How was your trip?

When I emigrated, Barry took on one of my boxer pups - he was called Scar as my father-in-law hit him with his car one day and he had some surgeries and pins to repair things. Barry gave that dog a great life and I was forever grateful. When Barry passed away, Karen Denise (AKA Nancy Drew) took Scar into her home and gave him an amazing life for 7 years. Scar passed away in May of 2024 and Karen Denise (AKA Nancy Drew) reached out to let me know. She is/was gutted about it. I have always judged people based on how they treat animals, and both Barry and Karen Denise (AKA Nancy Drew) are/were great people. Edited because I am a moron and got Denise's real name wrong in my original post and I should try better.

This is the defacto standard product used in my trail running community in NZ. I have used it for 3 years as my only in event nutrition. It's amazing. I like to mix the flavours. If you want to treat yourself, the Tailwind Recovery Chocolate is an absolute treat after a long event. Serve it in a glass with ice and it will change your life. I have run a few ultras and always have ice-cold Recovery in a thermos, and its mentally helped me with the last few kilometres.

Lol - Sorry, no. This is a misunderstanding. I was trying to be funny. When I joined theehub 15 years ago, I chose to use my real name. and I took a lot of jabs for it. All good natured and funny stuff though. I found your statement to be amusing as it reminded me of that time and that's why I made my comment. Without context though, it was probably a pretty stupid comment.

Ummmm.....

WOW - Thats cool news about the house. Yeah, also trying to save some pennies so a quiet December is planned. Other than some runcations we are going to hang around. Orewa is gorgeous over summer, so we will enjoy all it has to offer.