Wow...where can I start?.....I've just had my birthday and had my first celebration flying over Mount Cook..in the South island....New Zealand's highest mountain....12,000 ft.....that was just unbelievably brilliant. It was a spur of the moment extravagence...we' taken the Mount Cook road on our way back up North as the weather looked as if it would be clear...and it was... absolutely brilliant day so I suggested that we charter a plane!...well why not?...bac...

Its now the 13th May...happy birthday big brother...soon be the big one for you! ..and to you Lorna for a couple of days ago. We're in Nuku 'Alofa Tonga..had have just made our internal flight and beach hut...fales here...bookings for travelling to little desert island paradises...where Bob and I are going to make our own fly fishing lures and rod from flotsom, whittle sticks, paint Polynesian pictures like Gogauin ( know who I mean), read books and swim with ...