Author: brian

Getting away from mornings like this.

And maybe to have a beer in the sun

Descent into a passport photo that was accepted.

It was too dark a day.

In one end of the time and space machine

Along the way

And out the other end

I have been out Klondyke Rd again.

With Brett

Moira is getting ready for Europe

Local pix

And some interesting art work

This is my friend Marie’s native plant nursery this week, it is near Napier about here.

That is a 2 storey building, I have stayed in the upper storey, I am glad she does not live there any more, but in an apartment in Napier.

That’s quite a moat!

I imagine it will take a while to recover from this.

Yes we have noticed the rain.

This was outside the laundry

This was inside

And this parked at the back

All in all though we got off very lightly, the flood had receded in the morning, and there was just rubbish on the floor to deal with.

The car seems ok, was getting smelly after being in the sun yesterday so had the carpet shampooed and it is now sitting outside with the doors open.

Home was just fine.

And it is the great fruit time of year, Black Doris plums, and cherries.

Birthday dinner was had. Very nice it was.

It is the path to destruction though!

At New Year we went to Michael’s place, this is Fiona, his youngest entertaining the dogs.

Otherwise I donated to a European charity for a 0 Euro note, Die Toten Hosen style

And see this around the neighbourhood.

All going wellhere.

Te Akau Wharf

Te Akau

Tutukaka

People

The time came for a trip to Whangarei to check out the Hundertwasser Art Centre

Bonus that there was a Shane Cotton exhibition on too.

But back to more of the inside of the Hundertwasser Art Centre

And outside upstairs

And we stayed in Tutukaka, first time there.

Some friends Ken Downie, Greg Downie and Jenny Nicholls, published a book about New Zealand Bikers, and it is great, superb photography, and good profiles of the bikers.

Do check it out if you can. I know a few other bikers that would fit right in there.

Also there has been a history of Flying Nun the music label published, I got my copy gratis in exchange for providing photos, it looks good and detailed.

There is a launching for this on the 9th at 17:30 at Real Groovy in Queen St.

I have lent my copies of these to Bevan to check out for the moment.

Recently Feifei’s parents came to visit us from Sydney too. It was nice to meet them even with the language gap between me and them.

After dropping the books at Bevan’s place I went to Port Waikato to catch up with Robert Key, missed him, but Nikki and Annemarie gave me a cup of tea and pizza, very nice it was too.

Then I thought I would have a go at riding Klondyke Rd. to Onewhero.

A lovely adventure bike challenge right there. Glad it was Sunday and I didn’t get to meet logging trucks, in fact I only met 2 mountain bikers.

Great views, tight corners.

Those rails you see there really are holding the road onto the side of the hill.