Bad arithmetic
Spotted this beautifully hand-painted sign down Courtenay Place last night – something is wrong with the calculation…
Update to pre-cursor to the Rusty Nuts
Received a speed camera fine last week – caught doing 63 km in a 50 kph area in Patea at 8.01am in the morning. From what I can remember I was the only person on the road at that time -not that that’s a valid excuse. I have graciously accepted responsibility and paid up. Turned […]
Pre-cursor to ‘rusty nuts’
Bloody hell – my body aches, and it all has to do with rusty nuts. Not those rusty nuts. These rusty nuts…the Rusty Nuts Grand Challenge – 1,000 miles in 24 hours on a motorbike – scheduled in my calendar for the last weekend in October. There are two training regime techniques for this ‘event’: […]
Boat building – the Flying Saucer #1
I’m an excited man. I received the plans from Glen-L Marine yesterday for my next boat – a 12′ 3″ runabout called a Flying Saucer. The plans, let alone the boat, are a thing of beauty. It’s all printed on blueprint paper, so there’s a warning attached to not expose the plans to extended sunlight […]
Snow in Cuba
Ok, so not the ‘real’ Cuba – more like Cuba Street in Wellington. A beautiful short film by Irish film maker Ro Tierney.
Snow in Ngaio – worst dump of snow in decades
Video by Alan Doak Shot on an iPhone 4 over a one hour period.