It had been months in the planning (well at least two). It was first discussed at the fated over-drinking at the Vespa Bar. Tom had got the tickets and we were off to enjoy the one day International cricket match of New Zealand Black Caps versus The West Indies.For the weeks leading up to this match we had been thinking that as it was in mid summer we would be sitting there in 35 degree heat watching a marvellous match of cricket unfold in front of us, enjoying t...

When we had finally finished digesting our Christmas dinner ( approximately 24hrs after eating it) we packed up the van and headed out from Picton along the Queen Charlotte Drive. The weather had taken a a turn for the better and the sun was out and hot. The road literally followed the line of the sounds so was full off switchbacks and constantly going up and down and round the bend. When we looked at the map we thought that we could get well out into the sounds ...

Christmas arrived rather quickly for us without much thought to what we would actually do. Knowing only that we wanted to get away from Christchurch, we decided to try to get a couple of nights in a nice hotel where our Christmas meal would be cooked (and cleared up) for us and we could relax just the two of us. Of course that idea went out of the window as soon as we had made a couple of enquiries and got 'booked up' or 'closed' as our answer. Luckilly a colle...

- Not the usual sort of blog entry but I feel that I need to let you know about a man called Adrian Collis. I have had the dis-pleasure of working with Adrian for the last few weeks. Now Adrian "calls" himself an engineer. That is about as far as it goes. I had no end of trouble working with him and often ended up spending 3 times the budget allowed for draughting constantly re-drawing all his mistakes. To top it off the man smelled like a rotting sewer...

After a hard week at work for the both it was good to get away for the weekend. We met up with Tom and Rachel and headed off in convoy fashion towards the Rangitata gorge. We had an action packed weekend in store starting on Saturday with some white water rafting on the Rangitata river and finishing with a trip to see the worlds largest knitted jumper!We spent a rather chilly night in our vans and were pleased to see that upon waking the skies had cleared and the...