Torbay is one of many 'bays' on the eastern North Shore above Auckland's main hub, and it has a quiet, comfortable feel about it - for those keen aficionados of 70s UK comedy, there is no hint of a Basil Fawlty or anyone resembling him in this particular 'Torbay'. I am in sleepy Torbay for the foreseeable future, and better weather is now well on its way following treachorous winter conditions that apparently claimed a house in some sort of landslip incident in the local area, back in August. Although I'd heard at an earlier point in time that the building in question was in Torbay, I thought nothing of it when I was busy house-hunting in various suburbs a couple of weeks back, but astonishingly the road in which I now live is, in fact,
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