tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-210034802024-03-26T03:07:29.625+13:00sidonia.netchuckhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08546618141734809640noreply@blogger.comBlogger121125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21003480.post-25849306803602222652023-09-02T04:37:00.002+12:002023-09-02T04:39:13.453+12:00Trip to Carcassone chuckhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08546618141734809640noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21003480.post-19803604733905056342023-08-21T06:00:00.001+12:002023-09-02T04:28:28.658+12:00Hyeres
I had a link to the Strava record of my walk in Hyeres but it looked rubbish so I've removed it.This is a pic from the walk I did. It was hilly and hot. Man the water was BEAUTIFUL!We went back to a beach I'd seen on the walk in the afternoon and snorkeled and I properly saw an octopus 🐙Proof of critter encounter photos are in the Big Trip photo album. Promise.chuckhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08546618141734809640noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21003480.post-64510949229584334542023-08-21T04:00:00.000+12:002023-08-21T04:00:00.144+12:00Nicechuckhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08546618141734809640noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21003480.post-85982606436847112502023-08-21T02:00:00.000+12:002023-08-21T02:00:00.139+12:00La Spezia chuckhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08546618141734809640noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21003480.post-48570055709019399592023-08-21T00:00:00.000+12:002023-08-21T00:00:00.135+12:00Florencechuckhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08546618141734809640noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21003480.post-66093325667280358342023-08-20T22:38:00.000+12:002023-08-20T22:39:28.126+12:00Romechuckhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08546618141734809640noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21003480.post-70685375503167924262023-08-04T20:23:00.000+12:002023-08-04T20:31:56.756+12:00Chiang MaiIt looks like I'm not really in charge of this blog. I had thought I'd scheduled a couple of posts about remaining time in Borneo but have no idea now I'm offline and about to fly to Bangkok if they did. Hmmmn. Anyway, this update is about Chiang Mai. We've just had a bunch of lovely nights in Thai's northern capital. Here's how the Chedi was looking yesterday (before it absolutely pissed chuckhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08546618141734809640noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21003480.post-19995521473871332542023-08-04T18:52:00.000+12:002023-08-04T20:23:26.055+12:00KuchingAfter diving we travelled to KK airport and jumped on a plane to Kuching for three nights in Sarawak's big city. Malaysian Borneo has two main states Sabah and Sarawak, with Brunei nestled in the middle and Indonesian Kalimantan taking up the read of the world third largest island!My main memory about Sarawak was pepper because a Malaysian ex co-worker gifted me a small container of Sarawak chuckhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08546618141734809640noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21003480.post-87289912309390675652023-07-26T18:38:00.004+12:002023-07-26T18:42:45.857+12:00Testing a Polarsteps Embedchuckhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08546618141734809640noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21003480.post-53686324802320329792023-07-26T17:00:00.000+12:002023-07-29T21:44:29.316+12:00Borneo (Diving)Our diving part of the Borneo adventure was at Bigfin Diving on the coastline north of KK and closet to Kota Belud.Sally and I learned to dive in Malaysia many years ago at Tioman Islands which is off to the bottom right of peninsula Malaysia. When we looked at coming to Borneo Sally chose Bigfin as the location to let us do some diving, as well as signing Arthur up to do his Open Water and chuckhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08546618141734809640noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21003480.post-55559642333716395112023-07-22T11:49:00.000+12:002023-07-22T11:50:19.555+12:00Borneo (before Diving)I'm in Kota Kinabalu (KK for short) having just slept through our seventh night in Borneo. In the time in this part of Malaysia we have seen a bit of Sandakan, Sepilok, Bukit Garam, the Kinabatangan river and now KK. All places on the general north east part of Borneo. Note: I'm finding the location info in my photos a real bonus for easily navigating to the "where in the world was I when I chuckhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08546618141734809640noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21003480.post-63453458515538824032023-07-16T02:25:00.001+12:002023-07-16T02:25:16.057+12:00Trip Photo AlbumI'm going to share most of my photos using a shared Google Photos album. This album:Big Trip Photos 2023All my photos will have semi useful date and location info if you dig in to find it which may be useful if you really want to know the when/where of them, but the intention is to also put a caption on each photo that's helps me to remember the why!I was toying with simply blogging through thesechuckhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08546618141734809640noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21003480.post-74150451458350719132023-07-15T19:34:00.000+12:002023-07-15T19:34:11.810+12:00Leaving Nelson Today we left Nelson embarking on a six-month trip with the kids around the world.This was the view from the plane as we left our home town today on the way to Wellington. Beautiful!
Our short lay-over in Welly meant we had a chance to catch up with the whole Fieldes side whanau at lunch. Here's a picture of us all at Flamingo Joe's.
Thanks to everyone who made the journey chuckhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08546618141734809640noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21003480.post-23959417140682902442023-07-15T19:33:00.000+12:002023-07-15T19:37:12.904+12:00Singapore
We made it to Singapore and have had a hot and humid time of it. Writing this in the downtime between Singapore and Borneo (I'm actually in Kuala Lumpur airport!).Top photo is the iconic sculpture trees in Singapore's Gardens by the Bay. Currently this is my fav photo taken so far; kinda arty and actually in focus. My phone camera is having issues with focusing so I'm really only chuckhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08546618141734809640noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21003480.post-63099090556390667182015-06-06T00:00:00.000+12:002015-06-06T00:07:07.770+12:00HicksvilleGoogle tells me that it has been three years since my last post. Fittingly then it is at least 10 years, and probably more like 13-15 since I last read Hicksville.
At the time I was living in the Todman St flat and I think Chris lent me his copy. It was one of those, not pressured, no obligation, I think you'll like it moments. Even if it wasn't and this is completely misremembered then I'll go chuckhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08546618141734809640noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21003480.post-91742915374784445272012-08-20T23:55:00.001+12:002012-08-21T00:01:26.539+12:00Neuromancer<p>There seems to be a bit of momentum towards making Neuromancer a movie. Coming from someone that has always wanted to see this as a movie you can expect two things from me. 1. I'm not going to be happy about it till I'm happy about it. 2. I'm happy about it till I'm not going to be happy about it...
I suspect the vast majority of my blogging in the near future will be taken up by points chuckhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08546618141734809640noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21003480.post-39406034601631410902012-08-15T23:04:00.001+12:002012-08-15T23:04:38.897+12:00Testing blogging from a phoneTesting 1 2 3 !
chuckhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08546618141734809640noreply@blogger.com0The Wood, The Wood-41.267765 173.28409tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21003480.post-47557283191994658562011-03-27T21:38:00.003+13:002011-03-27T21:41:58.286+13:00Three Years On Celebrating three years of my new life today with a Piratical Themed party. Much fun had by all, most especially the birthday boy himself. This was the pick of the cards. We are off to Thailand for a month. You will not notice my absence from this blog.chuckhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08546618141734809640noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21003480.post-35123372824225374362010-10-26T09:07:00.002+13:002010-10-26T09:50:16.640+13:00Save the Mokihinui120 kayakers, environmentalists protest West Coast dam - Environment Sci - Video - 3 NewsBriefly out of blog retirement to lament the slanting of the above news item. Having been at the Mokihinui this weekend in support of the river run, I'm disappointed that news piece couched the run in terms like "costly" and supported by "outsiders".For the record the most of the costs of the exercise went chuckhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08546618141734809640noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21003480.post-83072466930158873592009-05-21T13:59:00.001+12:002009-05-21T14:00:51.822+12:00In other News...Building and Resource consents have both been granted. At last. We shall commence and there will be photos and posts...Yay!chuckhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08546618141734809640noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21003480.post-23918507938989894742009-05-21T13:42:00.003+12:002009-05-21T13:58:50.417+12:00Broken Blogging ContinuesStill really haven't got a use for this site, but in the interests of half maintaining a presence on it, here are a couple of links to two inspirational videos that I just keep watching. It helps beat the winter blues you know...Video one is just plain awesome. Linked to it by William Gibson, way back in August last year, I've been regularly watching ever since. I keep hoping it will start me chuckhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08546618141734809640noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21003480.post-43760127251148145072009-04-02T05:33:00.001+13:002009-04-02T05:38:45.487+13:00Arthur is One!From Exported VideosFrom Exported Videoschuckhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08546618141734809640noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21003480.post-88718309515704399492009-03-22T10:08:00.003+13:002009-03-22T10:41:10.482+13:00Three Posts: ThreeWe bought a house. In fact we bought this one...It is an old villa that was built in all likelihood in 1914 as part of a development that was designed to create affordable housing for workers in Nelson. It is in a particularly poor state of repair. You can't see it from this photo, but the lean-to area at the back of the property, which housed the bathroom, kitchen and toilet, can't be lived inchuckhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08546618141734809640noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21003480.post-6911215321766290712009-03-22T10:04:00.002+13:002009-03-22T10:08:54.902+13:00Three Posts: Two Point TwoJust a quick follow up on the second post. Saw this article in the paper a day or so ago. Spooky about how that happens; you think of something and then it pops up again a short time later. chuckhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08546618141734809640noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21003480.post-16270841637018541122009-03-15T09:58:00.003+13:002009-03-15T10:24:58.035+13:00Three Posts: TwoAs mentioned (almost a year ago now...) the plan was to head back to NZ and start settling in Nelson. Here is a special photo of the house in which the family is currently living.It is an amazing photo for a couple of reasons. For a start, the perspective of it makes the massive building look like a dolls house. The miniaturising perspective was achieved by an arborist, who had climbed one of chuckhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08546618141734809640noreply@blogger.com0