Everybody is Special

But some are even more special! I was delighted to be visited by this lady and her husband today.



She was Jeanette Banks, who used to live on a farm in the Buller Gorge and i went to school with her - a year or two ago!


Jeanette has still got that great smile. (Shame the photos are a bit blurry).



Jeanette, if you're reading this - have you seen the 'Hometown, Reefton' site ? (google it). They've got photos on there from the school reunion. Really great to see you - made my day.

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Special Visitors!

Well, everyone is special, but some are even more so.

These are old family friends. (Well, they're not old - but we've known them for a long, long time!) Timothy in the Argo with his wife, Cecile, and their boys Samuel and Matthew. They live in France, in Lyons i think.

Timothy's sister, Raine and her husband, Scott, at extreme right and left, with their girl, Madeleine in the Argo. They live in California, near San Diego.

Vry cool!




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December 30 2007

It's been a funny old day today. Thought it was going to be hot, but the low cloud hung around all day, which was good. We had a few visitors :-






























And, Phew! I think i'll go to bed now!

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Thank you, Ngapera!

Now they're flying the Maori Sovereignty Flag. I think we're going to have trouble!



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A Place of Safety

December 25 is the only day of the year that On Yer Bike/Little Earth are not open for business.

These are just a few of the friends enjoying a non-Christmas Barbeque in our backyard.

(It's now 7.30pm and it's 'persisting' down out there - which is good because everybody's gone home!)










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Yeah, rite - Tui!

This is Tui who comes and mows the lawns sometimes, which is really good of him and much appreciated because it's a pig of a job and everybody hates doing it - especially me!

Thanks Tui. You're a good guy.

Keith Lock MP.

We had a visit today by this very pleasant man. He said that his family stayed on holiday in Waiuta in 1953/4, a couple of years after the mine closure.

I showed him around a bit and went down the hill with him to show him the 'Reefton' village in the barn. When he was leaving, i asked him which way he was travelling - which i normally do. He said that he was just going to Hokitika as he was 'giving a bit of a talk there tonight.'

So, of course, i asked him what he does . He said, "I'm a Member of Parliament for the Green Party. Keith Lock."

Sheesh! If i was an MP, that'd be the first thing i told people, not the last! What a nice guy.

(I thought his face was familiar but couldn't put a name to it - you don't expect people that you've seen in the media).

While on the subject of politics, I can't find the reference at the moment, but it goes something like this. When the local paper was announcing the voting in a general election, it stated the results for Waiuta were (something like) 180 votes for Labour Party, 1/2 a dozen for the Communists and 3 for the National candidate, (Keith Holyoake - later a long-serving Prime Minister). The Waiuta correspondent stated that "It is hard to understand why anyone would vote National in a working-class, mining town."

Amen to that.

I KILLED A FAIRY!!!

She was just sitting there, minding her own business, in Gnomeland, when i came along with the weed-eater & chopped her in half. Poor little thing!

However, a dab of the good glue and she's all back together again - don't know if she'll ever fly the same though.

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Just Because

Fixed! (Finally)