Doug vis­ited the Aus­tralian embassy in Auck­land today and they placed a peach-col­oured sticker in his pass­port which will be “activ­ated” as a visa when he re-enters the coun­try next Tues­day. Yay!

Now that he’s got all the offi­cial stuff out of the way, he’s off to the Great Bar­rier Island for five days, start­ing very early tomor­row. I am ridicu­lously envi­ous. It looks stun­ning! I am sure there will be photos…