Sad story…

I know I have been waxing lyrical about HB and in some cases it’s beaches but there are some stretches of the HB coastline that are paticularly dangerous as this sad, sad story shows.
http://www.hbtoday.co.nz/localnews/storydisplay.cfm?storyid=3762378&thesection=localnews&thesubsection=&thesecondsubsection=
Marine Parade is a particularly dangerous beach at times and personally would NOT go swimming there.  This little boy mentioned in the [...]

US apples in HB?

Talk about taking coals to Newcastle…
I see our local Tukituki MP Craig Foss is living up to his catch cry “Backing the Bay”.  He is more than a little astonished at seeing Northern Hemisphere apples in HB shops.  I know for a fact he is a big fan of free trade but one has to [...]

Great things about HB

OK so the heat and impending audit may have got to me, my last post(s) have been a little negative so here are the reasons I live in HB (in no particular order)

Sunshine (and the associated heat )

1.5 hours to the snow (and the associated cold )

1 hour to some bloody fantastic [...]

Catching Up

Boy a lot happens when you take break from the world.
I could write many different posts but the download speeds round here……
Post Number One: THE HEAT!!!
It was so hot here the other day we had trucks sinking into the tarmac and getting stuck, I kid you not.  It was 33 degrees at 6pm yesterday, once [...]

Sir Ed’s gone

A truly sad, yet inspiring day.  Ed Hillary lived a full, full life and all life must come to an end, unlike many though, his legacy will live forever.  The snippets in of him appearing in the media over the past few years told us all that his time, on this planet, was limited; yet [...]

Illegal Billboard update

A few days ago I published this picture from an acquaintance in the Nelson region

The manwho made this sign is incensed at the way this government is treating it’s citizens.
Now the leftie fools who are commenting over on Kiwiblog have attacked it/it’s producer/and DPF in all manner of ways.
They complain because it doesn’t use full [...]

Aurum

Apparently the first link i put in sent you to a jewellery store; still gold right?  So I’ll try again (just in case you think I’m mad) and I think I’ve fixed the other link
 www.aurumcoffee.co.nz

It’s pure caffeinated Gold

A good friend of mine (OK he’s my second cousin, once removed) has set up his own coffee roastery, Aurum, in HB.  Aurum means Gold (just in case you didn’t know)
Now all my friends know I am a coffee-aholic, they have even suggested I write a book on the good and bad coffee shops in the lower [...]

Our download speeds, they are criminal.

Got this information off www.speedtest.net 
It shows the average download speed per category. It certainly goes to show how far behind we are, how we are being treated like fools and highlights the source of my frustration; not to mention the impacts on New Zealand’s productivity as a whole.
Top ISP provider in the world is Segic Usach Ltda [...]

Looks like the electoral commission is going to be busy

http://www.nzherald.co.nz/section/1/story.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=10485715
 What with Andrew Moore of www.dontvotelabour.org.nz being approach by the electoral commission and Mr Tony Gavigan ’shareholder activist’ (how do you end up with a job like that) encouraging everyone to register, it looks like it’s going to be a busy year for the Electoral Commission.
If you should wish to register as a third party [...]