Gotta respect a guy who can work like that. Impresses me how when he finally goes down the trunk, he is strapped onto it and cutting off a 2 metre section above his head. Really want it to fall away from you and not clean you out on the way down.Must be a buzz.
Earlier this month we all went to the fieldays to check out whassup in rural New Zealand. Plus it is always interesting and a lot of fun. The kids enjoyed the mechanical racehorse, the real Llamas and Isaac found some chooks. He impressed the man with his nice manners and was duly given one to […]
Four days of mega anti bots and my lump is worse than ever. Being the weekend, I asked my friend Sue for opinion. I felt nervous because my niece said anything Sue does always hurts. Bad.Sue took one look and said” This sort doesn’t come out by antibiotics. It only comes out by incision.”She quickly […]
I have been feeling a bit sorry for myself recently. Only just got over minor surgery and then a lump that has been on my back for decades gets infected and goes gangbusters. It is uncomfortable. It smells of infection and reminds me of sheep suffering decomposing wounds. And it looks cool! Well, my niece […]
We have a family tradition called the “Great Easter Egg Hunt”. This happens each year at our holiday spot up North.I go around in a small pine forest and place eggs in trees, fallen logs, on the forest floor. Anywhere and everywhere. The children are given a quota for how many eggs they can collect […]
We went out into the wilds and captured a jar of Tadpole’s. 180km later they were “released” into the kids old paddling pool. This quickly developed it’s own ecosystem of green goo and mosquito lavae. The Tadpoles have done well on a generous diet of bugs and goldfish food. So far 6 have morphed into […]
The last sandcastle of 2005 on New Years Eve.The clock flicks over past midnight once more. It brings the feeling that having seen so many of these that one may have expected to have actually achieved a bit more. Still, the kids are coming along nicely. I hope your year brings you the opportunities that […]
Countdown to the big day. Which here is a really big day, what with end of year, annual holidays, summer etc as well as Christmas.And there are the Christmas parades which actually only have a passing connection with Christmas. We got involved in the whole thing with Ruby and Besty called in as fairies. Yes […]
Just cruisin’ around Fiji and along comes Sunday. About 50 Westerners go ashore from a small cruise ship to a village. The local Methodist church welcomes us. I’m sure part of the reason Fijians love church is because they get to sing their hearts out.The service plods along on a hot afternoon. Language is an […]
Toodling along in our automobile we met a Pukeko flying across the road. I watched in slow motion as this ungainly bird flapped towards the road intersecting my path as I cruised south at 100 kmh. These birds are always on roadsides unworried by traffic. By the thump as I hit this one, I knew […]