This morning, on a brilliant winter’s day, the mayor officially opened the new cycle/walk way that connects Havelock North to Hastings. Building this cycleway needed a serious engineering solution, as there were two very deep and long drains. The solution was to cover them with a metal skeleton, covered with a concrete pad. It works [...]

Last week the engineer, my daughter Kate and I flew to Melbourne to stay with my son Mike and his partner Av. We had a great time in the 5 days we were there, doing a bus trip in the Yarra Valley, visiting 4 wineries. We sampled many fine wines. We saw “Spiderman” at Imax, [...]