Happy Easter Part 2

What an easter. Its nearly 30 degrees outside, the Crusaders are playing tonight and I'm going to see The Phoenix Foundation, Split Enz, Queens of the Stone Age and The Smashing Pumpkins all play live in ChCh over the next three days.

Bevan and I are also hoping to bag a peak at Arthurs Pass for good measure tomorrow which will be a good ramping up of the Routeburn Race training.
Will come back to work next week for a holiday I think!

BREAKING NEWS !!!

The Easter Bunny will be delayed this year....

Happy Easter Everyone!

Turning A Blind Eye

"Tibet? Wheres that? Never heard of it."

My blog will now be banned in China, apologies to my former readership there

Another Wedding in Paradise

I have finally recovered from a magic 4 days away down at Lake Hawea for a wedding. First wedding of 2008- after 7 of the things last year its almost been a drought.


Couple of pics attached from the trip (Lake Hawea and Mt Iron above Wanaka, where I ramped up the Routeburn Classic training a little bit)- I seriously recommend a holiday there for anyone, although you'd need to win lotto twice over to afford a decent house there now.


Big thanks to everyone who made it happen- scarily that was my first proper holiday since Rarotonga, unless you count a few days off at Xmas.

Foxing around

The Cricket

Isn't it marvellous? The Poms now have a real reason to whinge.

And Scotland beat them in the rugby, even better!

For cricket fans I'm adding a couple of Links down the side of the page, Paul Holden and also the Beige Brigade one.

For the sportsfans, or those who like to laugh at England sport!

When Work Becomes Play

A selection of pics from last weeks visits to Central Otago and the McKenzie Basin.

Hard Yakka I tell ya ;-)

My Guitar Gently Weeps

Jeff Healey has died. Best known as the blind guy who played the blues rock guitar on his lap, and perhaps popularly best known for his cover of The Beatles song "While My Guitar Gently Weeps"

This is a tragedy...I saw this guy play live in the early 1990's. One of the most innovative guitarists of our time, all the remarkable by the fact that he never saw a guitar in his life. Unorthodox style, he was a remarkable musician and taken too young with cancer at 41 years.

New York Times obit here

Huge Week

I have the perfect job. 4 High Country Stations and a day in Dunedin in the past 5 days. Photo's to follow in due course, I hope everyone is well!