Trip to Taranaki
This week, Vicky and I got to head away for our 3rd Wedding anniversary. We got married on the first day of the middle school holidays in 2010. This year we were couple of weeks late of the actual date, due…
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Taupo: 2 Years Anniversary
Because I am a teacher, we were able to get married during the July school holidays, and forever have some sort of time off around our anniversary.This year, for our 2 year anniversary, we took a week and went up…
Good Friday Cross 2012
Every year since 2001 I have made a cross on Good Friday. My first one was made on the shores of Lake Rotowiti whilst on Solo (3 days in the bush alone). Each year I set out to do something…
How to build a Mandolin
The following is some of the things I learned along the way of building and constructing my kitset Mandolin. The kitset is a SAGA Mandolin AM-10. I suspect other kits are similar in the pieces they include. Hopefully, you read…
Mandolin: Alpha
Last week I ordered my very first (and possibly last) Mandolin kit set. It is a SAGA Mandolin Kit AM-10. I have begun on this weekend project in order to get me away from the drab boringness of Facebook and…
Mr Mexted
Today I found out that one of my favorite teachers passed away. Roger Mexted was my teacher in Standard 4 (Year 6) in 1993. But he wasnt just any teacher. When I was in sixth form, it was Mr Mexted…
Wedlock
Note: I apologised that this has taken so long to upload – but when youre without Internet it makes it difficult. A late summers day. A decision was to be made. A life changing event to be planned, organized and…