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Auckland Lantern Festival (also known as The Asian festival of light) – Went along on Friday, 2 March 2007, it was super busy and lots of …. “lanterns” funnily enough. Grabbed some food from the asian stalls and took a few photos of all the lights. Check out the photos in the photos section of this blog.

Anyway it is the year of the pig this year! The start of the New Year falls on February 18, 2007.

If you were born in 1923, 1935, 1947, 1959, 1971, 1983 or 1995 – you were born under the sign of the pig. Like the pig, you are highly regarded for your chilvary and pureness of heart, and you often make friends for life. For pigs in 2007, any recent setbacks or obstacles can be overcome so look forward to a year in which to really shine, either personally or professionally.

Famous people born in the Year Of The Pig include Lucille Ball, Humphrey Bogart, Thomas Jefferson, Ernest Hemingway, Alfred Hitchcock, Mahalia Jackson, David Letterman, and Arnold Schwarzenegger.

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Ok should have updated this site but we purchased a house a few weeks back, went to WOMAD and Groove Armada, watched the rugby and generally been super busy organising stuff.

Anyway we move house this weekend and become “homeowners” and “bank-owers”! So hopefully telecom will sort out the broadband connection so I’m back on line this weekend with no interruptions. We are moving to Ellerslie and for me a big plus – 5min walk to a pub to watch sport (as I have no Sky) – Go the Chiefs this weekend

Anyway photos of the new house are here (from the real estate site only so far)

I have plans for this site so you just need to hold on.

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OK, been super busy and a bit slack on the website front so lots of news and photos are on there way very soon.

A few new pages should hopefully appear also…………

Patience my son……..

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Happy New Year Everyone!! 

After a lot of indecision and what to do for NYE (and knowing Auckland was not the place to be) we ended up driving to Gisborne and splashing out on Rhythm & Vines tickets.  R & V is played out at Waiohika Estate just out of Gisborne city on a vineyard.  Although the weather wasn’t perfect we had a wicked time dancing until the wee hours of the morning and not getting to bed until 6:30am on Jan 1.

Along with 14,998 other (mainly younger) people we opted for the “special reserve” tickets (as these were the only ones left) and had special VIP seating when our weary bodies could take it no longer.  I highly recommend it as a NYE venue and place to go, wicked music and fun times.  Picks of the day in order were:

Crazy P (live) – fusing house, disco and jazz – great dancing tunes (formally called Crazy Penis but they shortened Penis to P)

Brazilbeat Sound System – The BBSS sound is a mash-up of dub, roots, funk, house, breaks & drum ‘n bass. They had one DJ spinning and a dude on drums and then more drums, felt like I was back in South America for a dancing session with the country that always knows how to have a good time.

Mylo & Dick Johnson played they usual DJ sets for all to dance to but think they didn’t get into as much as I would have liked but still good tunes!

So check out the top 2 recommendations anyway and for a few photos click here

 

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Well back from our Xmas on Great Barrier Island.  Highly recommend anyone who has not been to go.  Didn’t last long enough to fit in all I wanted to do but was extremely beautiful.  Check out the DOC website for info on Great Barrier if you intend going, for one, it has a great map of the island.

 

 

The trip over took four & half hours as we decided to take the car and John’s (Amanda’s dad) little boat over so ended up on the car ferry .  Well worth the expense as we had transport on and off the water.  Many a morning was spent fishing and a bit of snorkelling also.  Managed to catch lots of snapper and a few other species (trevally, etc) and ended up eating fish everyday.  Managed to fit in one dive with Aaron and ended up with a bounty of scallops which were devoured by all.  We set the cray pots a couple of times but alas the bloody eels keep eating the bait so missed out there and ran out of time for another dive to go catch some. see the photos here… (more to come later)

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We are off to Great Barrier Island (in NZ not the Oz one!) from 22nd to 27th December.  Diving, fishing, eating, drinking and chillin out on the beach. Staying here 

Can’t wait and have a Merry Xmas everybody.

 

 

PS Any ideas for NYE??

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Ok, I am unfit and haven’t done any fitness for years, but you have to start somewhere. Anyway I am playing Sub football Wednesday nights at Seymour Park in a team called Zamantix 2.  Check out how we are going here.

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