New Toys!
This is Barbara's new pride and Joy!!  A  1958 Nash Metropolitan, the first "compact" car in the USA. The first one had a Austin A35 motor and the later models, like Barbara's a Austin A55 1500 cc engine. It is in immaculate and original condition. 
Do you remember the song "Beep Beep" about the Metro??.
It hit the top 40 on the Billboard charts in the USA on June 9, 1958, made number 4, and was in the top 40 for 12 weeks, about a race between a Cadillac and a "little Nash Rambler".
Here is the original "playmates" version. (MP3)
click to hear it!!
AND she does'nt just drive around the block in it!!!

Ray's Morry Minor

And Rays baby is this 1960 Morris minor, that he has just finished rebuilding inside and out and now on the road.
Sorry, don't have a song for the Minor!!!!

Our home in Taumarunui   more...    
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We now have a Kaitiaki (guardian/protector) at the front door
It is carved (chainsaw) from a punga log, it's pretty big!
The fingers (4) on the hands represent birth, life, deah and the spirit world...
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And a new cat...

BC is his name for bloody cat, Louise says it's for "bloody cute".... not so bloody cute when he's running up the hessian wall in the computer room !

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UPDATE:
...Who has grown into a "not a so little cute" cat..5.5kg, 10 months old and half grown!!!!! And still running up the drapes...He is a Norwegian Forest cat that could grow to 8-10kg.
Caught in this pic having an afternoon nap.
Whata mistaka to maka!!!!!!!.
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The Invasion of the Sk8sistas  ...more
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A rainbow emanating from the summit of Mt Hikurangi 
The translation of Hikurangi is "path or stairway to the sky or heaven"
The mountain has significant cultural importance to the Ngati Maniapoto people. It was also a boundary marker for the Ngati Tuwharetoa and Ngati Haua

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Better late than never.... check them out 

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Jack has a week with the zimmerframe man...
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Four days in the Mountains of the Mist..  fantastic


A Winter Traverse of Mt Tongariro
Lots of snow and crampons!!!

10 Fun Filled Days with Louise  ...more  
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