Grumpy sheep say “Baaa baaa Grump.”

Being woken at 4am twice in 3 days by the girls in the downstairs flat makes Kieran unhappy. However there is an unexpected benefit – being too late/early to go back to sleep, I have found myself on my laptop and it’s SO PEACEFUL! 4-5am is my new favourite time of the day.

In GYO news, I have a meeting with Ruth McDavitt on wednesday, programme manager for export Wellington. Ruth is, according to Tim, the woman I need to speak with to open doors.

 Did a walk-in to different businesses in Wellington and got met with blank stares from the highly intelligent sales/student workers. Have reverted back to phone calls/emails to contact appropriate people. The challenge, however, is finding out who these people are. Through a mixture of Google and the companies office website you can generally find who you need to be talking to but it’s an uphill battle. Business owners obviously think that they have heard it all before with a discount/loyalty kind of scheme, so getting them to listen to the entirely new concept of GYO is proving to be a real hurdle.

What I really need is a high profile Wellingtonian to back GYO and be able to take that to businesses. Someone of the likes of Rod Drury or Terry Serepisos.

Off to play cricket today with Dad out in Paraparaumu, apparently there is 100 there to be scored. Back into town afterwards to get back into it. I’m sure I have something on on Sunday but I can’t remember what.

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