Sydney tomorrow!! Yay, this holiday has been a long time coming, the first significant one since October 2003, if you don't count Christmas week. Which I don't, its usually far from restful and full of things you have to do rather than want to. Off to Harbour City Bears pub night. I see they have moved to the Oxford. Staying in the Cross ( Read more... )

Seems we have largely skipped over Spring and Summer may almost be upon us! Yay! Looks like I am stuck in the office all week. Bugger. Oh well, makes the trudge to work easier & the homeward leg even better. Just hope the weekend is fine enough for a BBQ on Saturday night ( Read more... )

Have had an interesting few weeks. Finally got it sorted and I'm off to NSW on the 19th for a couple of weeks crashing with Graham in Wollongong. Hopefully its warmer and sunnier than here at the moment!

Butterfly Creek finally opened ( Read more... )

Another pick of Karekare and some of our wonderful scarce native sand binder Pingao - Desmoschenus spiralis, which was in full flower on the weekend.( pictures here )

Ian androkles, I thought you might like these butterflies from last summer/autumn.( Read more... )

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Time sure zips by. Its a month since I last posted an entry. Tim is away in Europe and has already been gone nearly 2 weeks. He phoned this morning for the first time, but goofed his wake up call getting me up an hour early (5.30am!!!). Not surprisingly I could not get back to sleep and are paying the price today. He is in Vienna, nice! One ( Read more... )

Ouch! We have just bought a new computer. A Hewlett Packard
HPT460A Computer + 19 LCD Monitor. Got it home Saturday and I am slowly getting it sorted. Details follow at the end of this message for those interested. Sunday I was on a day trip to the Mokohinau Islands, way offshore, northeast of Little Barrier (Hauturu) Island. ( Read more... )

March has just gone by in a blur, some good, some bad, lots of work, lots of fun stuff too.( Read more... )

Gosh, nearly a month since I last posted!  Nearly a third of the year already gone... Scary! One of my favorite tunes says it all.

Time

Ticking away the moments that make up a dull day
You fritter and waste the hours in an offhand way
Kicking around on a piece of ground in your home town
Waiting for someone or something to show you the way

Tired of ( Read more... )