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	<title>The Brown family moves to New Zealand</title>
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	<description>After visiting NZ in February 2007, we moved from the UK to Wellington.</description>
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		<title>It&#8217;s official &#8211; we are NZ Residents!</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Dec 2008 08:43:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Following on from the last post, today we received our UK Passports back from NZ Immigration with the blue NZ Residence Permit and Visas inside. This means we are now officially New Zealand Residents! I can&#8217;t tell you how nice it is to read the bit that says &#8220;Date of Expiry: Indefinite&#8221; The Work Permit [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thebrownz.wordpress.com&amp;blog=705936&amp;post=102&amp;subd=thebrownz&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Kiwis by Xmas?</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Dec 2008 09:52:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ross</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[We submitted our NZ Residency applications back in July and didn&#8217;t hear much from them until just recently. I was asked to submit my Birth Certificate again and then today we got a very exciting letter. It said they were approving our NZ Residency application in principle &#8211; we just need to drop our passports [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thebrownz.wordpress.com&amp;blog=705936&amp;post=100&amp;subd=thebrownz&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Sophie&#8217;s Second 2nd Birthday</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 11 Aug 2008 10:43:25 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Sophie turned 2 years old at the end of June, but we didn&#8217;t have a party for her until this weekend, so that we could have it while Norman and Shirley are staying with us. Everyone who was anyone from the coffee group came round to our house and all the kids had a great [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thebrownz.wordpress.com&amp;blog=705936&amp;post=98&amp;subd=thebrownz&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Calm waters</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 11 Aug 2008 10:10:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ross</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Norman and Shirley arrived last week &#8211; it&#8217;s been great seeing them again and they&#8217;re enjoying being back in NZ. The weather has even been kind to them, it&#8217;s been cold but we&#8217;ve also had some glorious sunshine &#8211; most un-winterlike. Yesterday we had clear skies, sunshine and no wind. In fact, it was such [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thebrownz.wordpress.com&amp;blog=705936&amp;post=96&amp;subd=thebrownz&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>One step closer to Kiwi</title>
		<link>http://thebrownz.wordpress.com/2008/07/03/one-step-closer-to-kiwi/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 03 Jul 2008 05:45:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ross</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Yesterday was an important day for us, we submitted our NZ Skilled Migrant visa application. The application process is pretty thorough &#8211; we had to submit so much supporting paperwork that I had to buy a super-sized envelope to fit it all in &#8211; and it took us a few hours to gather everything together [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thebrownz.wordpress.com&amp;blog=705936&amp;post=94&amp;subd=thebrownz&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Sophie&#8217;s Second Birthday</title>
		<link>http://thebrownz.wordpress.com/2008/06/29/sophies-second-birthday/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 29 Jun 2008 11:42:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Candi</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Would you believe it &#8211; our little girl is 2 years old today?! Yesterday I asked her what cake she wanted.  She said she wanted Pepa pig jumping in muddy muddles.  I tried but she will get her &#8216;proper&#8217; Mickey Mouse Clubhouse cake at her Birthday party on 9 August &#8211; we decided to postpone [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thebrownz.wordpress.com&amp;blog=705936&amp;post=92&amp;subd=thebrownz&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Medical Checks Are Completed</title>
		<link>http://thebrownz.wordpress.com/2008/06/25/medical-checks-are-completed/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Jun 2008 10:23:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ross</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Yesterday I took the day off work and we made a lot of progress on our NZ Residency application. Well, when I say that, what I actually mean was we got our medical examinations, chest X-Rays and blood tests done. Sophie was really well behaved, she got quite bored but was still quite happy by [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thebrownz.wordpress.com&amp;blog=705936&amp;post=91&amp;subd=thebrownz&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Catch-up time</title>
		<link>http://thebrownz.wordpress.com/2008/06/22/catch-up-time/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 21 Jun 2008 23:58:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ross</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Wow, things have been so busy we&#8217;ve really been neglecting this blog. I&#8217;ll try and bring things up to date, then we&#8217;ll hopefully find it easier to stay on top of things Carl, Cindi and Kei came to stay. They had a great time, we hired a bach up at Waitarere Beach and stayed a [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thebrownz.wordpress.com&amp;blog=705936&amp;post=88&amp;subd=thebrownz&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>More Pics Of Sophie</title>
		<link>http://thebrownz.wordpress.com/2008/03/18/more-pics-of-sophie/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 18 Mar 2008 10:57:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ross</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Yes, just for a change (lol) I&#8217;m posting some more Sophie pics for you to enjoy. Click on the pictures below to see the complete set. A couple of weeks ago, we went round to John and Pamela&#8217;s for a BBQ. Sophie got to see her friend Lachlan and they had a great time playing [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thebrownz.wordpress.com&amp;blog=705936&amp;post=87&amp;subd=thebrownz&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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			<media:title type="html">Sophie the Easter Bunny - a photoset on Flickr</media:title>
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		<title>UK trip &#8211; a short summary</title>
		<link>http://thebrownz.wordpress.com/2008/02/25/uk-trip-a-short-summary/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 25 Feb 2008 09:49:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ross</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[OK, so I know we didn&#8217;t post anything while we were over in the UK, so here is a quick summary of the rest of our time over there&#8230; We took a trip to Oxford to do a bit of clothes shopping and I dropped in on the Pru in Reading to have lunch and [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thebrownz.wordpress.com&amp;blog=705936&amp;post=86&amp;subd=thebrownz&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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