I’ve watched with Tgreat interest the current controversy on the new youtube craze of “planking”. Surely it is a personal responsibility of everyone who tries this mad fad to try it while sober and with sensible buddies! The engineer tried it out himself!

It is great to see the conversation has begun on amalgamating local government in Hawkes Bay. It can only be beneficial for the population of the region, as it would provide a united front to NZ of over 150,000 people. It would be so good for many of the parochial, born and bred HBers to [...]

Last Sunday we had the inaugural County2Coast fun run on the Hastings section of the Rotary pathway. The 16 Km section started at River Road, just outside Havelock North and the the 7 Km section started in Grange Road, Haumoana.

Over Easter, the engineer and I flew to Nelson to walk on the Abel Tasman coastal track. We were joined by my sister Kerry, her husband Dave and three friends. The walk began on Easter Friday in reasonable weather, but it soon deteriorated into rain for two days. We did enjoy walking all over, nevertheless, [...]

The engineer and I spent the weekend at Waipatiki, a beautiful, unspoiled beach north of Napier (and in the Hastings District) It is going to be our “home away from home” as we plan on spending a few weeks each year there, hopefully to lure the overseas off-spring home for a short time every now [...]