Ange, all the rest of DH's family are in the south island, we are the only ones close.
I liked my science course, but if I had thought about it more I would have realised the actual jobs at the end of it are b-o-r-i-n-g. If I had my time again I would look for jobs that sounded interesting and train towards something specific no matter if the course itself was boring. I may yet retrain once the children are at school, actually I think I would be o.k once this new baby is at kindy to do a couple of units extramurally (MD, I used that just for you lol - what do you call distance papers over there?)