The indian summer we’ve been enjoying in New Zealand has come crashing to earth in the last couple of days with relentless rain and storms. MT went off to the badlands of Auckland yesterday and packed overnight requirements in case the gales forecast were too bad to return home.
Luckily the storms blew through Wellington earlier [...]
Archive for March, 2007
It’s not really the weather for building
Posted in Houseblogging on March 15, 2007 | 1 Comment »
I knew it was going to be messy
Posted in Houseblogging on March 11, 2007 | 2 Comments »
It was quite an adventure to visit the build site today to see how the ground works have been started. After I had got over the initial shock it was easy to feel excited that at last things were underway. We’ll keep readers updated each week with progress as we make our weekly [...]
Photoblogging: the earth’s moved for us (1)
Posted in Houseblogging on March 11, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
I don’t think you can ever prepare yourself for when builders start on site. But so far they’ve put their sign on the gate and after 2 days turned our beautiful green paddocks into a mass of earth. To say it was a shock is a bit of an understatement!
Yes, its official we have a [...]
Photoblogging: the earth’s moved for us (2)
Posted in Houseblogging on March 11, 2007 | 1 Comment »
To achieve the amount of change on site, there’s plenty of heavyweight machinery. You can guess who wanted to have a go don’t you! Luckily the excavators took the keys away with them
The big digger that looks to be doing the most work.
The little roller that is for compacting the earth
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Photoblogging: the earth’s moved for us (3)
Posted in Houseblogging on March 11, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
You’ll remember the former residents..
And where they used to graze.
No more grass for them to feed on now!
View where cottage will eventually sit
When they’ve transformed this!
Photoblogging: the earth’s moved for us (4)
Posted in Houseblogging on March 11, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
View up the future drivewayView from the bottom of the garden through the area for orchard
Neat piles of top soil ready for the gardening
Photoblogging: Kaitoke views
Posted in Houseblogging on March 4, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Since there are only so many times that you can hang around a gate it made sense for us to take to the lanes and enjoy the country around Kaitoke. We are surrounded by Regional Council forestry and recreational parks so there is no shortage of places to trek to. Here’s a the views from [...]
Photoblogging: tunnel gully
Posted in Photoblogging on March 4, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
As you might expect in a place called Tunnel Gully that there would be a tunnel! Not to disappoint there is indeed the former railway Mangaroa Tunnel which you can walk through. It’s pitch black, a little wet in the middle and takes courage to walk through it and stupidity to walk back. Nevertheless, this [...]
30 weeks left on countdown
Posted in Domestic Executive Countdown on March 2, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
There’s a lovely kiwi phrase which sums up how I feel this week. “I’m so over it…..”
This covers off the results of about 3 months work to prepare for a senior management conference which was completely thrown out of the window due to a last minute rethink by our leader. It’s been a tortuous process [...]
A place fit for royalty
Posted in Uncategorized on March 1, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Today we took possession of our land in Kaitoke. With the final planning permission coming through yesterday it now means that we’re ready to roll.
Some kiwis think that we’re mad to be building so far from town. We like to think we’re part of an exclusive community that sees the merits of country [...]
