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IMG_3196 16-Sep-2005 3:46am |
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IMG_3165 12-Sep-2005 7:11am My lounge / bedroom staying with Pete & Gemma in NZ. |
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IMG_3255 22-Sep-2005 10:30am Pete & Gemma. Oh yeah! - classic NZ fish & chips. The English think they know fish & chips. They just don't know they don't know. |
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IMG_3171 12-Sep-2005 7:14am Pete's playroom. |
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IMG_3179 12-Sep-2005 7:53am Fud & Jennine's massive back yard in Christchurch. |
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IMG_3181 12-Sep-2005 7:55am Front yard. Man, not a bad first property! Not bad at all. |
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IMG_3252 21-Sep-2005 3:27am Lovely day up in the sky between Christchurch and Palmerston North. Pity it wasn't the same in either city. |
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IMG_3191 16-Sep-2005 3:43am Mark & Beck's first house in Feilding. |
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IMG_3190 16-Sep-2005 3:43am Some Mark handywork there in that path, me thinks. |
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IMG_3186 16-Sep-2005 3:37am I didn't take enough pics to do the place justice - most of the artwork around the house was all done by Mark (except the picture behind the glass doors which was a gift) + photography by Beck. |
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IMG_3184 16-Sep-2005 3:36am Bedroom |
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IMG_3183 16-Sep-2005 3:36am Spare bedroom (!) |
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IMG_3188 16-Sep-2005 3:38am The lounge. Wait... something's out of place. |
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IMG_3203 17-Sep-2005 12:12am ...That's better! Hey that took more than 20 seconds Mark, must be slowing down in yr old age eh? ;-) |
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IMG_3189 16-Sep-2005 3:39am |
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IMG_3196 16-Sep-2005 3:46am The proud house owner. I'm impressed - they'd only been there a few months and most of the house had been fully brushed-up all ready. |
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IMG_3193 16-Sep-2005 3:45am Back yard and shed / entertainment central. |
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IMG_3224 18-Sep-2005 5:11am Cheese! Good Cooper. |
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IMG_3206 17-Sep-2005 5:40am The Pugmire "Mansion". Yeah, OK, I'm getting old - I went to the wrong house! |
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IMG_3204 17-Sep-2005 5:38am But always time to check out the home handy-work. Nice bridge, Ralph. |
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IMG_3205 17-Sep-2005 5:38am |
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IMG_3209 17-Sep-2005 5:54am Man, their goat wasn't just tame - it just rocked straight up to me to say hello! I think it thinks it's human. Apart from the pine tree diet, that is. |
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IMG_3210 17-Sep-2005 6:13am The Pugmires, Looks and Look-Mires. |
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IMG_3212 17-Sep-2005 6:14am More Pugmires, Looks and Look-Mires |
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IMG_3213 17-Sep-2005 6:16am |
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IMG_3214 17-Sep-2005 6:30am |
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IMG_3244 20-Sep-2005 1:04pm Nick & Kylie also have a house, and kindly put me up as well. I didn't get many pics, but I'm sure you can find more on Nick's or Kylie's websites. *** Note: if asked to log in - don't do anything! Just wait 20 seconds*** |
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IMG_3215 17-Sep-2005 7:24am Behold! Nala, the incredible flying dog! |
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IMG_3243 20-Sep-2005 1:04pm Sniff. The last look at the guitar & Amp I bought so long ago at university... I just have to let go. |
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IMG_3226 20-Sep-2005 12:48am Now in England, as a cyclist I can see the 4x4 (SUV) crazy taking off here too. Ridiculous. Is it the paranoid mothers or the rich 'screw everyone else' fathers wanting these tanks to protect themselves? babies? or just show off their wealth? It's not like these vechicles will ever get a speck of dirt on them. In NZ on the other hand, 4x4's tend to get used for what they were built for... and probably none more so than Kylie's 4x4. See here: http://nick.idleplay.net/gallery/030622/DSC03718 or here: http://nick.idleplay.net/4wd *** NOTE: if you are asked to log in, don't do anything! Just wait 12 seconds. *** Anyway, I finally got to see her 4x4 for the first time... |
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IMG_3227 20-Sep-2005 12:48am ... and in it we went up to see the Wind Power farm up near Ashhurst. This bridge was recently washed away in floods - you can see the reconstruction still on-going. |
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IMG_3229 20-Sep-2005 12:54am Driving up. Nick tells me they to contruct these, they designed special custom-built trailers to transport the large hardware up the windy mountain roads. ~10 wheel trailers where each wheel actively steers. (Correct any mistakes please Nick!) |
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IMG_3230 20-Sep-2005 12:55am Hey, they don't look all that big... from in here |
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IMG_3235 20-Sep-2005 1:02am driving driving |
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IMG_3237 20-Sep-2005 1:03am This is cool. They've made a lookout / car park area on top of the hill, and right in the middle is one of the generators, so you can appreciate the size. Unfortunately you can only see it's shadow - I'll try and get a video on the website ASAP which shows it. |
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Car_park_generator.AVI Video of the wind generator in the middle of the observation area. |
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360.AVI A 360-deg shot of the generators. (Yes, that's Nick's sarcastic tone, BTW) |
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IMG_3240 20-Sep-2005 1:05am Click 'huge' to see the full sized image if you want to read the facts. A few: 55 turbines power about 32300 homes. Towers 70m tall, each blade 35 m long. If that doesn't mean much to you, think of it this way. The blades turn gracefully about 1 turn every 3 seconds. So the tips travel 220 m in 3 seconds, which is around 260 km/h. I can tell you, when you are standing directly underneath that blade... then it looks fast! |
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IMG_3242 20-Sep-2005 1:14am |
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IMG_3250 20-Sep-2005 11:29pm Ah, my university city Palmerston North. Hee hee, I had to take a photo: the 4 lane highway looks pretty busy today! They'll have to build some more lanes soon - it's getting jam packed on the roads. |
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