Inside the Stone Store

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Stone Store Kerikeri

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(Canon G15)

Waka - Waitangi

Display window-Reeds Vegi shop cnr SH 10 and Kerikeri Road

Fresh Chiabatta straight from the oven still red hot in the bag and amazing display cabinet Kerikeri , Northland . Oh yum , this is foodie heaven all in a tiny vegi shop.

Friedensreich Hundertwasser

Designed by internationally renowned artist, ecologist and architect, Friedensreich Hundertwasser, the Kawakawa toilets are made from the community's recycled old glass bottles and reclaimed bricks. It is the only structure he ever built in the southern hemisphere.

Dads ashes

Over the weekend we put Dads ashes to final rest in a very beautiful garden cemetery in Christchurch next to his best buddy and golfing mate of some 58 years. There after followed much beer and wine drinking and a meal of his favorite foods.
Clockwise , ham off the bone (with Colmans bloody hot mustard) , newly dug potato with melted butter, Mums famous bean salad, orange jelly with grated carrot and pineapple, pickled beet root set in blackberry jelly and finally, cucumber and mint set in a lime jelly.

Luxury breakfast by the Chef du jour

Eggs , scallops , fresh ground coffee, strawberries, blue berries, melon and Greek yoghurt .

More Japanese by my personal chef

Dinner for two

One dozen oysters, fresh salmon and snapper sushmi. Oh yes how good is that

New Plymouth water front

Whitebait fritter sandwich @ Mokau

Mokau Butchery

Number 34 , new member of the team.

Oriental Bay - Wellington

I spent some very happy days of my late teens and early 20's

hanging out here with my friends, thankfully it hasn't changed character much

in the intervening 30 years.



 

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Asparagus , BBQ pork and tofu

Pork belly twice cooked

Pork belly twice cooked on Bok Choy with Chinese five spice jus and thinly sliced baked baby potato . From my every reliable West Plaza Hotel restaurant in Wellington . Not as huge as it looks , just the right size and very very delicious.

Reach for the sky

Peace

Hand made in Devonport

Guard cat

Summer for seagulls

Boat sheds in Wellington

 

(Posted from my (outdated) Iphone4 using

the new "Blogger" app. Simple but effective and better

image handling than Blogpress I think)

Wellington at night - part 2

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I lived here between 1967 and 1976. It would be fair to say in the
intervening years it has improved a lot although not the climate ! 

Wellington at night

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Dad

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My dad died last week aged 89, we gave him a great and mainly

humorous send off , we know he would have approved.

Two hundred people came along.

Thank you for supporting me Kylie, Anatole and Steve especially. 

He was good and generous man and one whose word was his bond,  integrity was assumed.

 

 

Training as a pilot in WW2

 

Teaching me to drive in the 1950s

 

 

 

 

On a picnic with mum, a most popular family activity  

 

His last very strained words were "I have a wonderful family"

 

 

 

Awakino

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SH3 at Awakino

New Pontoon at Birkenhead

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What one million dollars buys you, one floating pontoon and some nice purple lighting

Mt Taranaki

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Trim flat white and Granny Smith Cider , Auckland fish market

Posted by Chris using my phone.

Reflecting on a beer

Wellington my second home

What I see = airport , taxi, hotel, office, taxi , airport .

Lamb shanks

Lamb shanks , mashed potato , peas and a beer it doesn't get much more kiwi than that .

Two trim flat whites Altura Albany

Jogging on the Port Hills

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Tussock - Port Hills Christchurch

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Two more trim flat whites

Two hours later 

Two trim flat whites Christchurch container mall

Goat Island trees

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Gallery members room Auckland Art Gallery

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Traitor , what about ME

Mist

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That time of the year again

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Autumn in Christchurch

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From Mum and Dads drive in Mt Pleasant

Trees on the Avon near the hospital