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1969	Hawaii: Details in Peace Corps Journal.
1970	Boomeranging with Simon on the rara. Murphy's for dinner and to check out all the new toys. Extremely good chat about New Zealand and the USA.
1971	3" snow. Drove a car for the first time in over two years - went to hardware store to get bits so I could hook up a pull bell so Mom can ring Chris upstairs. Mom tried to make a curry with the masala powder I had brought - it was terrible.
1972	Played tennis with Bob and Haysons until I knocked the ball into the jungle.
1975	Ordered coffee and had a Saturday paper delivered. The missing suitcase was delivered. Steve picked us up and we got the school projector. Had lunch at same place. Picked up his skis and dropped him off at home. He let us use his car. Got groceries at Safeway. Did Stanley Park where we walked along the coast and forest to a lake. Black squirrels climbed right up my leg. The Aquarium had too much to take in on one visit. Walked around the kids zoo until dark. Got Steve and went to the University where we looked at our slides and his of his seismic ship trip and mountain top hikes.	Skana
1977	Murray stopped in with his thesis on the way to Fiji.
1978	W - Went to Omana and Maraetai beaches for a couple hours.
1984	Th - Gail's cousin Billy was staying with us. As I was waiting for the bus with another guy we saw a car sitting a block away for a long time. Then it comes up to where we are and stops in the middle of the street. The window is rolled down and when it became apparent that help was required we walked over and the other guy said: 'You lost?' and the guy (Gail's uncle David) said: "Yah, I wanna know how to get to your house". I couldn't tell who it was without my glasses. So it took me half a second to put 2 and 2 together. Couldn't figure out at first what the guy meant.
1985	F - Clarks over and we played the golf course. They enjoyed it even if Sophie did end up in the fishpond. Gave her a bubblebath and then the "Patience Tester" singlet to wear. After golf it was a curry meal and three bottles of wine. A fantastic Karlsurg Estate '81 cab-sav and a good So African KWV '80 cab-sav. They gave us cloth table mats [ed. - still using them in 2022]. We watched "Agony" and chatted until midnight.
1986	Sa - Went with Lees to Lake Pupuke with the raft I made by tying two surfboards together. We canoed, rafted and floated about in the vinyl boat. I towed Ne and Ben and David towed Mat. Had lunch there. Ran into surf sail. Johnny Taylor said "Hi" through the hedge. He's 57 and running ultra marathons and still the same.
1987	Lees dropped in to say "hi" and stayed a couple hours.
1988	Ne was fishing when I got up. Only took 30 minutes to sail to Pohutakawa Bay on Ponui Island. Simon picked a wonderful spot, right next to Spindrift with its topless crew. Went ashore. David, Chris and I climbed the rocky point, traversed the crest along sheep/cow track up to where I carved my initials into a power pole and made it back to shore in about half an hour. Meanwhile, Ne and Fran collected oysters to eat and use for bait. Inflated our boat, tied it to Trianon and the kids had turns floating in it. I slept through supper and remained supine for the evening while others played backgammon. see photos
1991	Karioitahi with Whites. Got out when salt in eyes got too much for me. Jump-started Ana Lindsey's car, then hung around the beach for a couple hours. Whites to play cricket to test out the new stumps that David made for Matthew. Then bridge to try out the cards we gave to Susi.
1993	Others went to Kelly Tarlton's and I guess dad was facinated with the sting rays. Played jarts until supper. Looked at family videos.
1994	Opoutere. Met up with Ian at the beginning of the road over the hills just outside of Kopu. He popped the hood only to find oil everywhere. He had topped up at home and forgot to put the cap back on! Ian and I chatted with Ernie. Drove to the DOC carpark at the river head and walked over to see the dottrel colony on the sandspit. A lot of variable oystercatchers around. Played Chinese checkers and Madlibs. Sky cleared so we got the telescope out and were up until 1:30AM looking at Magellanic clouds mostly.
1997	Sa - Played basketball with David and Laure. More basketball with everyone when Dale and Matthew brought Ne home from work.
1999	M - Karioitahi for the first time this summer. Brought Ian and Steve D along. Great waves, good rides and perfect weather. Whites to play petanque. Home for swim and coffee. After supper we went to Whites for Hungarian Grand Prix. Played Carrom.
2000	W - Stephanie stopped in with her old boyfriend, Walter deWit. Went bowling and even with my bum knee I beat Nao 147 - 131 (score sheet).
2001	Scandal-less Brundells over for a visit. Luckily the rain stopped in time to do a visit to Brundell Bush.
2002	Box from US - thought it was one I had sent but it was air mailed by Chris and Celia and it was the Goofy phone that Ne and I had admired in the Mall of America. It works in NZ.
2003	First stop Whites where wished Sally "Happy Birthday", then Emery's to look at computer and finally Marcia's for the evening with Dougie and Jill, Rachel and Phil, Graeme and Maitel, Barney and Glenys, Shelly, Robyn, Viv and Frank. Rosemont '00 cab-sav was excellent.
2004	Whites for Sally's birthday bbq. Spilt wine on my shirt, spilt wine ('01 Nederburg Cab Sav Merlot) on Tracy... Played "Break the Safe" with Minis and David and then it was trifle and Trivial Pursuit until 11PM.
2006	Mini-Whites for Sally's birthday. Tima was also there. When Josh wasn't trying to escape outside (to see the raindrops) he was playing with a toy fan. I had a very good Wolf Blass(Yellow) '05 merlot. After the meal we played a couple games of BUZZ and I won mine. Ian cut the top of his head on a window corner.
2009	Su - Called dad who could hear me despite what Angi said about his hearing and Ne also spoke to him.
2010	M - Minis for Sally's birthday. Tracy and Leon gave me a birthday card and bottle of wine. I gave Leon the Christmas train because NOEL also spells his name. After a meal I played ping pong with Christian on the new table tennis in the garage. After cake and pie we settled down to many games of Dominion. All the while I was sipping on a Wolf Blass 09 Merlot.
2014	Sa - Nick stopped in out of the blue - been in Katikati for 5 months. Christian neighbors not treating them very Christianly.
2023	W - Card from Angi. 60 minute walk to Sandhurst - found 20¢ ($14.50). 34OC to mow, weed and prune. Watched Breakers 91 - Brisbane 81 - refs calling a lot of blocking fouls.
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