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All New Adventures: Jumping and riding on hay bales
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Sunday, February 15, 2015. Jumping and riding on hay bales. We arrived on Friday night and set up camp out the back in the garden. After a pot luck dinner/good old fashioned BBQ, most of us climbed onto the trailer towed by an extremely powerful tractor for a tour of the farm. Flax darts at the beach. The following day we headed out to the beach. We stopped for a bit of flax dart throwing. Kien spent ages making his very own. Then we went down to the beach. All aboard again, back to the farm we go. At th...
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All New Adventures: Gone Sailing
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Ever since I saw The Talented Mr Ripley. Jef spent a lot of his time working on Fire Dancer, trying to get it to be in a comfortable state for us to sail. But eventually he realised that life was too short to try and refit this boat. What we need is a weekend cruising boat that is ready to go. So in 2012 we bought ourselves a Christmas present. We are now the proud owners of Cariere, our Davidson 28. Here are some of our memorable cruising stories so far. A day trip to Rangitoto in January 2015. Explorin...
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All New Adventures: May 2014
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Tuesday, May 27, 2014. He asked. If you are very lucky I might have some money in my wallet for you, I told him. So off we went. Our stroll to Ponsonby Rd consisted of:. Finding fishing rod sticks. Rolling around in leaves. Only walking where the leaves are. Befriending a pussy cat. Oh look, the cat has followed us. Running and kicking leaves. Proudly purchasing our favourite flower. The finding of a love heart shaped leaf. And last but not least, skipping. Lien - all new adventures. Links to this post.
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All New Adventures: June 2014
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Friday, June 27, 2014. The day I jumped off a bridge. Kawarau Bridge - plummeting 43 meters down to the river. It was an amazing experience. The only time that I got really freaked out was when I was shuffling towards the edge and I looked out, over and down. My heart was thumping as I realised I was actually going to free fall all the way down. The guy who was there on the platform with me asked if I was scared. "Oh yeah, now I am! Was my response, to which he replied, "Good! I did that. Finally. But I'...
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All New Adventures: July 2014
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Sunday, July 27, 2014. Translating questions that may not need answers. Plus, it doesn't help that I've been slightly obsessed with Ingress (although a very pleasant distraction) since last Sunday. Anyway, enough nonsense talk. It is nice that I can send Kien outside to play without having to be out there myself. Start of Term 3 swim lessons. The other day/week I took Kien to one of our favourite haunts, the Auckland War Memorial Museum. Lien - all new adventures. Lien - all new adventures.
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All New Adventures: All is quiet on new years day
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Wednesday, January 2, 2013. All is quiet on new years day. Except for giddy children, cows mooing, chickens clucking, and fun filled laughter and merriment at the family farm on Cole Rd. We had a fabulous lunch under the canopy. It was a spectacularly sunny day with hardly a cloud in the sky, perfect for dancing on the hay bales. It was so much fun being up there! You don't know until you do it. How do I even begin to explain how much Kien loved being on the farm? Doing the farm thing. Jacki van der Burg.
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All New Adventures: December 2014
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Sunday, December 28, 2014. Finally we sail away. I wanted to get away on Boxing Day but the boat wasn't ready, and we decided we would get packed and get going first thing yesterday. Well that didn't happen because Lynette texted to tell us to come spend the day/night at the farm and break in the new pizza oven. Well how could we turn that offer down? We did well to get away from the farm mid morning, finish our last bit of shopping for perishables, get on the boat and stowed 436. Finally we sail away.
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All New Adventures: October 2014
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Thursday, October 23, 2014. Our last few days in Bali. I've finally got around to processing the rest of the photos from our trip to Bali, which in some ways feels like a million years ago now. Since we've been home so much has happened! I'll go into more details later, but right now I thought I'd finish up web logging the remainder of our little excersion. Nusa Dua and Kuta. Here's what 5 million Rupiah looks like. It's weird when you are talking in hundreds of thousands and millions. Once we got to the...
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All New Adventures: March 2015
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Monday, March 9, 2015. About last (last) weekend. Oh, are we already into a new week? I still haven't quite caught my breath yet after last (last) weekend, and last weekend just gone. They go so quickly, don't they? So here's what we got up to last (last) weekend. It all started on Saturday with a visit to the Auckland Beekeepers Club apiary to see the hives being opened and the honey extraction process. Back on dry land in the early evening, and it was time to head off to the Auckland Lantern festival.