Back to Months
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Back to Months |
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| 1954 | Walked Mom to Deaconess Hospital and then sat in the lobby as my brother, Chris, was born at 1:44AM the 9th. | |
| 1969 | Hawaii: Details in Peace Corps Journal. | |
| 1971 | Prize giving. Wheeler (PC head man) and wife came up for Prize Giving. I sat with them in the chapel. Joe Gibson (Head of Ed) gave a nice speech to the point. MacDougalls where Joe told us about his trip to Europe that featured many exciting and funny tales. Met the Commissioner Central, Filipe Bole. Magiti and sat with Whites who were drunk from Murph's. Singh yelled out "speech" at a most inopportune time. Very moving with several speeches. Talked to Gukilau about attending university in the States. |  Bole |
| 1973 | Mike made breakfast for us and an interested sparrow. Drove to Rotongaio Lakeside Motor Camp (Loafer's Paradise) and decided to camp there. Bought smoked glasses and a miniature croquette set. Set up and had lunch and played croquette on the beach. Gail and I walked along the shore to "The Point" about 1.5 miles. We ran into some Maori netting whitebait. Kathy whipped up chili for supper. Mike hooked up his radio to the wire fence for great reception. He showed me that you could also hear it through a screwdriver held to the fence wire. Played 500 under Coleman light until 10:30PM. Heard the possums during the night. | 
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| 1976 | Prizegiving. Bloody hot day and I wore my suit for the first time this year. Patrick Walsh, an ex-All Black, was guest speaker. Greenhill brought over last of his stuff for storage. Gail went to Tupperware party at Liz's. | |
| 1977 | Th - Wore my suit. Lovely feed at interval and many "going away" speeches. Then certificate awards. Jr Prizegiving: Precious McKenzie was the guest speaker. He gave Patricia F a kiss to the audience's delight. Brian Alvis and I held hands during the procession out. |  Precious |
| 1978 | F - Last day of classes. Certificates awarded at assembly. Prizegiving after lunch. Pat Booth, journalist, was guest speaker. Williamsons back from Australia and Frances dropped by to say hello. Benson's for the evening. | |
| 1980 | M - First day at Physicians, Surgeons and Dentists (PSD). John Eliason spent an hour telling me how things go. Doug Siems introduced me to everyone in the unit. Free lunch for me and my sponsor and we picked up enough desserts to give to the unit. Tim gave me my first assignment - fix up a program and to check the daily runs. | |
| 1984 | Sa - Put plastic on outside of the ranch slider. Looked at slides. Latest craze = flavored popcorn. |  |
| 1985 | Su - Victoria Park Market which turned out to be a great place. We got a shirt with "Patience Tester" for Sophie. Found a neat store with spices galore. Drove across the bridge to get to Lake Pupuke where we ate lunch and watched sail boaters and windsurfers. Over to other beach for 91FM swim competition. Gail sunbathed, but it was me who got a burn. 991 ping pong balls were released from a helicopter into the lake - too far out for our kids. Mazzah gave out the prizes, then Prime Minister Langey gave out swim trophies. Aldies' for Trish and my birthdays. After baba cake we looked for Halley's comet. | 
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| 1990 | Auckland with Mike and Alex. Stopped at a publishing house - met Alan Dick, Radio Pacific sportscaster who puts Mike's articles into magazines. Quills (on Kyber Pass) for 9 bottles of wine for $138 and then Glengarry for four more at $56. James Mitchell and Sue arrived with an excellent Corbans '89 Cab Sav. After a tour of yard I did some pork on the barbecue. David showed the guests "Crime Wave" video game. I showed them my cereal box collection. James thought he had me when I said I can find anything in any of my collections within minutes. He wanted a cigarette ad which featured a shark. I came up with a Camel ad which had a photo of a shark on the reverse page. And that was sufficient to amaze him. | 
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| 1993 | Ne had spaghetti on toast for breakfast and it was an eye-opener for Dad. Went to Wai-o-Tapu and joined a crowd at Lady Knox Geyser. Ranger poured soap into it and the reduced surface tension builds to an eruption (video). A long time walking through craters and on lakes (video). Dad doesn't believe these things can exist and finds it hard to accept that these things happen. Georgie Pie for lunch. Kingsgate at 6:30PM. 80% of gathering were Japanese tourist groups. We sat with odds, bods and sods. Met a fellow from Oregon who had spent a year in Brisbane. Italian couple - he an engineer for Fiat and had been in China teaching Italian. Dad ordered a Steinlager Blue thinking it would be that color. Food was buffet and Dad loaded up way too much before he got to the meat, used the wrong utensils, dropped things but managed to eat. Had pavlova for dessert. Floor show was entertaining (photo - video). When rain came there was a leak hitting Ne. |  Waiotapu  Wai-O-Tapu 
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| 2009 | T - Thames with David. Seventy minutes to get to the Kopu bridge (work on new one has begun). Checked into the Coastal Lodge and our older cottage. After lunch we headed north to Coromandel and just got to the Driving Creek Train in time to have a ride to a lookout building, The Eyeful Tower (diagram of track). Altogether about an hour going up and down. From there we drove along the gravel backroad to Kennedy Bay. But we stopped by Lucas Lookout and drove part way up the service road (scraping the bottom more than a few times) that led to a trig. Gail managed to hike up the remainder of the road to the relay towers. David and I spent an hour or so along a mucky trail to another lookout, but I couldn't make it, so we turned back and to the car. Hour long drive to Thames. | 
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| 2011 | Th - Crackers and an easy to drink Seifried '10 SavBlanc before going to Le Café Taste of Asia with Ne and Colleen. |  |
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