South Day 2
A landscape of senility. We could not get the a/c power to work in the van even after fault testing with a detector. We checked all breakers including one hidden underneath a cupboard after phoning the help line. So we…
South Island Trip Day 1
Breakfast and rain. Heading vaguely in the direction of New Plymouth this morning. Lunch at Piopio. Afternoon tea somewhere in Taranaki. That’s the Elephant Rock in the distance. And so to New Plymouth, a town I first visited in 1979…
Pirongia Heritage newsletter
I have been fascinated with the Newsletter concept since, as a teenager, I used to cut stencils for our local Youth Hostel group and later University publications in Earth Science. So I found it an interesting challenge and having recently…
Puzzles
It started during our 4-week lockdown but now I usually have a jigsaw puzzle on the go most of the time. It’s quite good because I can listen to the news or music or a game show and still do…
NZ Reaches Level 1
So, we have had no new cases for, I think, 28 days now and there isn’t anyone in NZ who has Covid 19. With no foreign tourists, the campervan people have greatly reduced their prices. So now we decided is…
An Ethics Training Storyline
The challenge was a makeover of a piece of US government web-based training: NOTE: This is not a complete course, just enough to give an idea. https://community.articulate.com/articles/give-this-ethics-training-course-a-makeover. This will give you a flavor of the original site: With this kind…
The Seinfeld Marathon
Besides the 100K in 14 days challenge Hania and I completed another marathon. We finished the whole 9 series of Seinfeld. I leave you with this because its buzzing around my head for days now, you might as well have…
First New Zealand Visit
I first visited New Zealand in 1979 and again in 1980 but I’m not sure that I have photos, maybe somewhere. Of course it was a totally different experience then, a long trip too. Returning on BA 001 took something…
Post-lockdown
So the blog will become a bit more intermittent as we exit lockdown and will have reasonable freedom to move around now. I can even play tennis again. Ana, Vicky and I completed our 100km in 14 days today. Mike…
Lockdown Day 46
Just Another Sunday in Godzone Big walk this morning, Pirongia Mountain Nikau loop track. We did walk to the shop and back as well so nearly 11km today in pursuit of our 100km in 14 days. We are still officially…