Evening all,
Just thought I'd post a quickie before I head to bed, it is after all a school night but I wanted to keep up the correspondance.
Things are all go at the moment, I'm busy making up some prototypes for one of the jobs that Rich and I have got on for our new firm - Underdog Design. I've also been making the second prototype of my new underwater hockey stick which hopefully I will have finished tomorrow if I can get some time on the machine after work. Some of us here in NZ are quite heavily into designing new sticks for hockey and as such we've put forward a paper proposing new rules for the design and manufacture of sticks to the governing body so I was involved in that last week.
The last two Wednesdays have brought good weather so I've spent both evenings in one of the parks in town watching films on a giant inflatable cinema screen. There is live music till it gets dark then they put the films on. The series of six films are all NZ made (and surprisingly Lord of the Rings doesn't feature in the line up!) The park is packed with people and it makes for a very enjoyable night out and something a bit different.
On Saturday some work colleagues and I went to a Food and Wine festival by the sea in town, there were some big NZ bands playing in the background and more wine than you could see with beer goggles on. Suffice to say that a good time was had by all and I finally made it to bed around 2am...
The coming week involves further planning for Ewan's Stag doo and speech writing for the big day. Time seems to be flying by at a staggering pace and before long I'm sure I'll be sitting infront of you boring you with more pictures and stories! In the meantime I hope that this finds you all in good health and I'll be in touch again soon.
Love Nick
Tuesday, February 19, 2008
Saturday, February 2, 2008
Festive Run Down and New Year News!
Hello, Hello,
It's my weekend for catching up with all the things I should have done weeks ago but didn't have time to do because of visitors and good weather!
The Bay of Islands (The islands are round the corner...)
Queenstown - scenery like Scotland on steroids.
Dad, Mum and Ruth snorkelling at Goat Island Marine Reserve
Cathedral Cove beach
It was very nice to have the three of them over and I got quite used to having them around again. By the sounds of it I don't think it'll be too long before they pop back again.
Since then I've had a hockey mate from my club in Southsea staying with me for the best part of two weeks. He's the leading contender for worst guest at the moment, he's just stayed in and watched tv all day and expects to be entertained when I get home from work. I've re-drafted a list of things to do to suit his shoestring budget and he still sat on his backside infront of the telly. Babysitting is not on my list services offered as host and tough love is the order of the day.
Work has got off to a slow start this year, first the project I was working on was chosen to go forward for production and the rest of my team were assigned to help out, then last week it got put on the back burner in favour of the original solution that had been rejected a month before Christmas. Swings and roundabouts. The hockey stick that I'm working on in my spare time is still under development after a bit of a setback discovered after I made a prototype before Christmas. Mark 2 should be ready for testing this week or next and is looking promising.
Last weekend was a long weekend here and I spent it camping and surfing with some freinds on the Coromandel, we enjoyed wall to wall sunshine and big surf that was a little bit beyond my limited skills! It was nice to get away from everything, catch up on some reading and relax. In March I'll be going to Wellington to play on the Auckland Regional Underwater Hockey team in the NZ Regional champs, it's the highest level hockey tournament in NZ so I'm putting in a bit of extra time on the bike and in my running shoes so I can keep up!
In other news I'm in the early stages of setting up a small design firm with a colleague to do some small projects on the side and we've got two projects on the go already, just going to take it slow and steady for the time being and earn a little bit of extra money here and there. I'm also busy preparing my speech and organising things for Ewan's wedding in May which I'm looking forward to!
It's my weekend for catching up with all the things I should have done weeks ago but didn't have time to do because of visitors and good weather!
The dust has settled after the family visit and by now I'm sure they've all told what we got up to so I won't give you a day by day account! After re-adjusting to living as a family unit we had a great time at Derek's family's bach (a.k.a. beach house) for New Year (spot of walking, snorkelling, fishing, drinking etc.) Then up to the Bay of Islands where we stayed in a bach with terrible views as you can see:
The Bay of Islands (The islands are round the corner...)
Queenstown - scenery like Scotland on steroids.
Dad, Mum and Ruth snorkelling at Goat Island Marine Reserve
Cathedral Cove beachSince then I've had a hockey mate from my club in Southsea staying with me for the best part of two weeks. He's the leading contender for worst guest at the moment, he's just stayed in and watched tv all day and expects to be entertained when I get home from work. I've re-drafted a list of things to do to suit his shoestring budget and he still sat on his backside infront of the telly. Babysitting is not on my list services offered as host and tough love is the order of the day.
Work has got off to a slow start this year, first the project I was working on was chosen to go forward for production and the rest of my team were assigned to help out, then last week it got put on the back burner in favour of the original solution that had been rejected a month before Christmas. Swings and roundabouts. The hockey stick that I'm working on in my spare time is still under development after a bit of a setback discovered after I made a prototype before Christmas. Mark 2 should be ready for testing this week or next and is looking promising.
Last weekend was a long weekend here and I spent it camping and surfing with some freinds on the Coromandel, we enjoyed wall to wall sunshine and big surf that was a little bit beyond my limited skills! It was nice to get away from everything, catch up on some reading and relax. In March I'll be going to Wellington to play on the Auckland Regional Underwater Hockey team in the NZ Regional champs, it's the highest level hockey tournament in NZ so I'm putting in a bit of extra time on the bike and in my running shoes so I can keep up!
In other news I'm in the early stages of setting up a small design firm with a colleague to do some small projects on the side and we've got two projects on the go already, just going to take it slow and steady for the time being and earn a little bit of extra money here and there. I'm also busy preparing my speech and organising things for Ewan's wedding in May which I'm looking forward to!
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