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The 2007 events are out of order at the moment. Once I have written up the most recent events, I will get back to putting them in the right order.
In October, Ruth and I took our new caravan to Kaikoura and we stayed at the Peteka Motor camp for a week. We left on a Monday morning and left the following Monday morning.
John and Dorothy Martyn were
away at the top of the Island in their caravan and were on the way home. We had arranged to meet them there at Peteka. We arrived at about 1 pm and J and D arrived a couple of hours later.
The weather was not good during the time we were there but we all enjoyed ourselves. There ws not too much sitting around out in the sunshine though.
The Motor Camp is at the western end of the Kaikouara Airfield and small aircraft are very low as the take off and land - mainly going out whale spotting.
We all had a couple of dinners out at Robbies but on this trip, most of meals were at the caravans.
We had a few walks along the beach. There were fishermen at the mouth of the river whitebaitinging. There were no runs and they were catching them one or two at a time.
The picture (above right) was taken by me with my Titan Phone. John was driving, I was beside him and the picture shows Ruth and Dorothy in the back.
The picture directly above, also taken by me with my Titan phone, while sitting in John's car, shows John coming out of the petrol station after topping up the fuel tank. Not the reflection of the mountains in the building window. The picture below shows both of our caravans together, Martyns in front. Note, I have the awning up now on ours/
Ruth and I recently attended the Rangiora A and P Show. It was a couple of weeks ago.
We had attended Andrews House warming party on the Friday night. We had taken our new caravan and we had parked up to stay the night to avoid driving home late, especially after drinking.
We new that the show was coming up but only realised at the party that it was the next day.
We enjoyed the party and after breakfast, we headed off to Rangiora, leaving the caravan behind.
I will include a few pictures of the show here and later, give a brief account of the party. While at the show, for our lunch, we had a pottle of fries and a really nice whitebait pattie.
We always enjoy these events. There are plenty of animals, machines, stalls, thrill rides and such. Ruth left her camera behind and these pictures were taken with my new Titan phone.
We saw some wood chopping events and I saw that one of the displays did work with a stump grinder. I got the guys business card with a view to getting him to get rid o
f some of the stumps here - from the trees we had cut down about twelve months ago.
My favourite machine are the traction engines. There were plenty of them there. They are like live creatures and I love the smell of the smoke. I remember when I was about 7 years of age and living at Roseberry street (just the other side of the Barrington Mall), the council workmen used to come along the street with one of these beasts.
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Worked for Vic today. First time for a long time. An average sort of day and I quite liked it.
Takings not the best by average. Vic is away in Auckland.
Alex Palmer arrived this afternoon and is staying the night. He is on the way down to Central Otago with a friend. His mate is staying with one of his friends over Bryndwr.
Alexa has to be up in the morning and on his way about 8-30 a.m.
Andrew and Wen Lin came over for dinner and we all had a really nice roast pork dinner and rhubard sponge which Ruth had prepared for us.
I took Alex out to the caravan and showed him the satellite T V system.
Andrew and Wenlin left about 9 p.m. and had to go shopping before they went home.
We all retired about 10 p.m.
Today, being Wednesday, is the day for Ruth's weekly meeting in the city.
We left the house at just after 11-30 a.m. and I dropped her at the venue in Latimer Square (Armagh Street) at just before mid day.
Ruth was going shopping afterwards so did not want me to pick her up.
I went to Racliff Electrical (wholsalers) and bough 8 f connectors to make ups some more leads for the LNB"s on my Satellite dish. I also bought a couple of joiners. I didn't need so many but I thought it a good idea to get a few extra. The whole lot cost $5.00 and would have been around $30.00 at Dick Smith.
I stopped at Harvey Normans on the way home and had a look through the computer section.
Then, home for lunch. After lunch, I spent a bit of time trying to get the second LNB fitted to the satellite dish on the house. I got it fitted alright but neither of them would work. I think the dish will have to be realigned.
The satellite dish on the house feeds to my computer room and I can have the receive and T V on my desk. I had extended it to the area near the front door a couple of years ago when I put my wireless router there (when I was with Telstra).
It wasn't needed when I signed up for broadband with Tlecom, so it has been coiled up in the bottom of the laundry cupboard. There was about 8 meters of spare cable also (all one length).
I spent some time taking it up through the ceiling and into the roof space and down to the cupboard in a spare bedroom.
The next step will be to put a fitting on the wall in my bedroom (on the other side of the wall to where the cable stops) and connect it, so that the satellite receiver can work there also.
I went outside and it was very hot and very sunny. Quite a contrast to the weather over the last couple of days - torrential rain.
I had another go with the LNB"s on the house dish but had no success.
It was getting on to 6 p.m. and I received a text from Ruth. She was on the bus on the way to Barrington Mall and wanted me to pick her up.
I was there about 10 minutes later. I sent her a text and told her were I was parked. She arrived soon after with a few things from Fresh Choice.
Seeing it was still warm and sunny, we decided to get a little ale and have a drink outside before dinner.
We did just that, but to get the last of the sun, we had to sit at the eastern end of the deck upstairs. Soon the sun was gone and it was time to go inside.
Blast those huge trees next door on our western boundary.
After dinner, we watched Coronation Street and Bad Girls which we had caught on the video last night while we were at the I P A meeting and dinner.
not arrive until about 1230. It was a nice day with reasonable sunshine.
One of the events there was ploughing. Although transport was provided from the main venue to the ploughing, we were not all that interested and we did not go over.
I told Ruth that we were not going to spend long there but we were thorougly enjoying the afternoon and did not leave until about 4 30 p.m.
It was like stepping back into the past. There were heaps of steam engines there, about a dozen of them. They are fascinating things. I have never really looked closely at them but I could not help thinking that the actual power plant on them is not very big.I was surprised to hear that one of the smaller ones was only 4 h.p. I spoke to the driver of one of the bigger ones and his was 8 h.p.
There was a fair ground organ there. At about 2 p.m. it started playing music. I was surprised how enjoyable it was. Some of the music was quite modern. One was the Royal Airforce March.
There was a 20 ton traction engine next to it. It was in tip top condition. It had a large electric generator mounted on the front and cables were running from it
to the organ to power it.
It worked by feeding in large cardboard cards each about ten inches square. They were like computer fan fold paper. They were fed into a mechanism and drawn through by a rotating cam powered by the Traction engine. Apparently the pass over an opening where air is passing through and the air can only pass through the holes cut in the card. This allows the notes to operate.
There was a West Coast White bait stand next to this and Ruth and I had a very nice white bait sandwhich each. There were only $6.50 and very nice.
There were also Clydesdale horses there and what beautiful animals they were.
I enjoyed the day, the music from the organ and the smoke from the engines.
I notice the big 20 tonner had a sign describing its history. It was built about 1890.It carried 8 (hundred weight) of coal - enough for about 25 miles.
There were vintage tractors there and also some vintage cars - my favourite being a mark 1 zephyr Police car - probably owned now by Barry Thompson - x police officer and historian from Ashburton.
he year is off to a good start. To start the record, I will go back to Xmas Day 2005. Scott and Andrew and Wenlin arrived about 1030.
We had the traditional opening of presents around the Xmas tree. I think it may be the last real xmas tree we have. The damn thing had just been put up by Ruth and the house decorations finisned and it fell down. She came in and found it lying on the floor and was not pleased.
We put it back where it belonged and it seemed quite secure. Some time after its decoration - or re decoration, it fell down again. Operation repeated and guess what, some time later it was down again.
The sinking of the inter-island ferry 'Wahine' on 10th April 1968.
