Oh that is encouraging...

NZ houses among least affordable
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Curiously this does have links to discussions/calculations earlier in the weekend.
So let us look at the amount you want for a deposit, the time taken to save it and the amount the house prices will have gone up in the time it takes you to get things together. Then we swear lots for being out on estimations by a bit, look at the biological clock ticking away in the corner and swear some more.
Could be worse though, we could be thinking of buying over here - no vaseline and hello Stamp Duty.

The Universe and I are back on slightly more civil terms, though I suspect I am not on speaking terms with myself. Oh well, as long as we can get floors clean, it doesn't matter.

And I suspect basal_surge would be interested in:

New Viking treasures found
The Silk Road Foundation: Mongol-American Khovd Archaeology Project in 2007

Who, me, procrastinating cleaning...?

Oh, and weekend was spent cleaning the house and garden and finishing the undertunic (now done). Only the rest of the house cleaning (floors and some tidying), then the wool tunic and swag to go.