Top shop win

Owies work just won an award at Aucklands Top Shop Awards

Quickie

Its been a while, so here’s a quickie as I run out the door to our new house…..
oh yeah, thats right – new house. We brought a new pad in Mt. Eden, Auckland. Took possession yesterday, and get the movers in Thursday to finally unpack all our gear thats been in storage since October last [...]

Update

I know, I know – its been ages since an update – sorry.
Well since the last update we’ve both got jobs (I contracted for 3 weeks, and started my ‘real’ job just over 2 weeks ago), and …..
We brought a house in Mt. Eden last week. Yahooooooooooo. Move in w/c 26 May, cant wait. After [...]

Abel Tasman

I’ve had this post in my draft box for ages, and life has certainly been full throttle at the moment so i’ll post this for now, out of guilt, and return to update it at a later stage as we have more news…..[see the next post]
We’ve been well looked after by our great hosts Sandra [...]

Wild Food Festival

Hokitika.
We had Mountain Oysters (sheep’s balls – tasted a bit like scallops, that is until you got to the veiny bits!!!), Huhu bugs, snails, plus some not so wild foods – yummy super fresh tuna, lamb and mussel kebabs, pork bap’s, Bastard burgers with beef, pork and mussel in the patties, etc. So yeah, [...]

Down the East Coast

Onwards from Kaikoura to Christchurch for a wander around the old part of the city, an overnight stay then onwards to Lake Tekapo in the morning.
WOW. What an awesome lake, super light blue (as its glacial fed) ,but bloody freezing. Vito and I took a swift dip (Vito was in slightly longer than I), then [...]

South Island – Kaikoura

well, an interesting start to the South Island trip with Vito & Claire.
I had to take a connecting flight through wellington and onto Blenheim, taking a tiny 10-12 seater plane over the Cook Straight. Then in my rush to go wine tasting @ Cloudy Bay, I totally forgot to collect my checked bag. Didnt realise [...]

Brendan Pow Pow

Man, what an unreal day we had today.
At least 15cm of powder overnight, first lift, tree runs, perfect.
We soldiered on through the -35′C and 35+ MPH gusting winds to do our duty and shred the powder runs on offer.
Between us, we took a few choice photo’s – so go check [...]

Who is the great…

…Cornholio?!

Man I used to love watching those clowns. I came across this pix whilst browsing and it just cracked me up all over again…..

Xmas Day snow, Breckenridge

Xmas Day snow, Breckenridge. – 1

Originally uploaded by Grayskullduggery.

Merry Christmas to you all.
Here’s what I woke up to this morning, the view out my new rooms window overlooking town.
None of these cars had snow on them at 11pm last night – so it dumped [...]