Conor & Ildica's Place

December 16, 2008

Section at Castle Hill

We've just been lucky enough to purchase a section at Castle Hill on which we hope to build a "bach" (Kiwi-speak for a holiday house) when we've saved enough funds to actually allow us to build something!

	This shows our section (across the laneway) looking SE towards the Torlesse Range.
	This is the view NW from the middle of our section towards the Mt. Cheeseman & Broken River skifields.
	Incidentally, I was up near the village on Sunday mountain-biking at Craigieburn.

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December 2, 2008

Google Streetview comes to NZ

Our house (well, our garage; you can just see the corner of Ruairi's room over the garage as the house is set well back), along with Mum & Dad's last car here:

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December 1, 2008

Transportation

Made a transport investment to continue my eco-friendly commute to work, and bought another Giant bike. Unfortunately, I can see these skinny tyres being a lot less resilient to punctures, although the seat looks a bit more comfortable that the one on my Trance X1.

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November 11, 2008

The Farmyard, Geraldine

Had a great weekend camping at The Farmyard near Geraldine, South Canterbury with Trevor & Marcus & families. The craic was mighty. Safe place for the kids, donkey rides to be had, lambs & kids to be bottle-fed, quadbikes to ride, rabbits to pet, marshmallows (or should I say, "marshmellows") to toast...

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October 31, 2008

Leaf, what leaf...

Adobe Lightroom 2.1 absolutely rocks.

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October 29, 2008

Gallery updated to 2.3

I've just upgraded our photo gallery to the latest version (Gallery 2.3). It fixes some issues I had with the gallery, including the map, and it also provides support for the cool PicLens slideshow plugin (which you can access from the "View Slideshow" link in each album) for web-browsers. Here's a screensnap:

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September 28, 2008

Scrabo Panorama

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September 17, 2008

UK Trip 2008 - Singapore

Singapore was an enjoyable break on the way back from the UK, including meeting up with Nick Wakefield & Mark Vander Klei. Hotel was great and Singapore was hot and humid (pleasantly different from the UK!). We explored Singapore Zoo (the kids & Nick all got a kiss from the sealion!) including the Night Safari, as well as Chinatown.

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September 8, 2008

UK Trip 2008 - Scotland

Well, it didn't get much drier in Scotland. We actually think there were was some precipitation at least once on every day of our trip except the penultimate one! However, it didn't stop us enjoying ourselves. We enjoying spending time at Eastfield farm, exploring and playing with Grandpa's digger, seeing Castle Campbell near Dollar, Edinburgh Castle & the Falkirk Wheel among other attractions, enjoying 4 days at Crieff Hydro, stalking squirrels & weasels, and catching up with good friends. It was great to see everybody in both Ireland & Scotland!