The Blog of Rob Eaton » NZ http://www.robeaton.org Tales of an Englishman abroad Mon, 05 Jul 2010 16:21:54 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=abc That Hurt! http://www.robeaton.org/index.php/2007/07/07/that-hurt/ http://www.robeaton.org/index.php/2007/07/07/that-hurt/#comments Sun, 08 Jul 2007 03:52:41 +0000 Rob http://www.robeaton.org/?p=21 Malc & I headed off to the hills early Saturday Morning.

We headed over the rail bridge near Rakia, when disaster struck. Black Ice and plenty of it. Malc managed to steer us out of a serious head on into the barrier, but hit more ice. This resulted in us gracefully slamming the side of the

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Last night was another new experience. We headed off to Campbell’s farm and went lamping or rabbit shooting. It was quite a fun way to spend the night, eventually ending at 2am. I think we

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]]> http://www.robeaton.org/index.php/2007/03/31/now-whos-a-fool/feed/ 0 Jacques Cousteau here we come! http://www.robeaton.org/index.php/2007/02/27/jacques-cousteau-here-we-come/ http://www.robeaton.org/index.php/2007/02/27/jacques-cousteau-here-we-come/#comments Tue, 27 Feb 2007 20:27:11 +0000 Rob http://www.robeaton.org/?p=26 So I had a busy week last week. Diving was the order of the day,.. or should I say week?

After ten days of bad weather postponed the previous trips we finally had some good weather. Thursday night saw the night & navigation dives. Followed by the deep, wreck, and search & rescue dives on Sunday.

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Ben had to drop off the crop duster to Brian in Omarama, which meant an hour or so flying and nearly four hours driving back!! It just goes to show what the roads are like out here. Anyhow I had nothing better to do thanm get up at 5am and

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Ben took up Mel, her friends and Andreas up for a couple of jollys in his works Cesna, just so that they could get a feel for the area.

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I have been very busy since I wrote last. Last weekend saw the arrival of spring here in NZ. With the clocks going forwards we had temperatures up to 25c. You can’t complain really!

I have been busy over the last couple of weeks trying to remove the massive backlog of photos from my pc’s.

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There are several observations I’ve made in the last week or so:

My car doesn’t have any fog lights, unlike the UK. Not a common accessory

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]]> http://www.robeaton.org/index.php/2006/09/15/pig-island/feed/ 0 Black & Blue or All Blacks? http://www.robeaton.org/index.php/2006/07/11/black-blue-or-all-blacks/ http://www.robeaton.org/index.php/2006/07/11/black-blue-or-all-blacks/#comments Tue, 11 Jul 2006 10:35:42 +0000 Rob http://www.robeaton.org/?p=47 Well what a weekend! – I guess it took it’s toll as I have only just got chance to write about it.

Anyhow, I spent several hours out on the mountain bike with Ben; cycling along the Warfdale Track. We probably spent more time lifting and removing trees than cycling. Either way it was a good

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Okay, so I thought I was an hour early. In fact I wasn’t. The thing that’s really annoying is that I was up at 5am this morning anyhow – so in fact I could have

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Yet again another uneventful drive. Driving over here for three hours on the state highway (single lanes in both directions) and only passing a few cars; not getting stuck behind any traffic is the norm. All at a steady 100kph! [66mph]

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]]> http://www.robeaton.org/index.php/2006/01/29/57/feed/ 0 12 Days to Christmas and my true love said to me… Well almost! http://www.robeaton.org/index.php/2005/12/11/12-days-to-christmas-and-my-true-love-said-to-me-well-almost/ http://www.robeaton.org/index.php/2005/12/11/12-days-to-christmas-and-my-true-love-said-to-me-well-almost/#comments Sun, 11 Dec 2005 10:52:05 +0000 Rob http://www.robeaton.org/?p=58 So it’s the twelfth of December. I’ve been here now for nearly five months. Life is good. I feel fit and a lot happier than I have been for years. My outlook on life is even better than ever. I have yet to have chance to stop as everything is social over here.

Billy Connelly was

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We were shown the ropes by Dan [if you pardon the expression]. Starting off on a easy climb [no. 13] we [I managed to drag along Mal as well] progressed through another three ending on a pretty crafty one. Easy to get up

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Anyhow work is going okay, I’ve now been here for two weeks and am slowly settling into

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Yesterday was an interesting day. Had my medical and drug test, followed by pretty much nothing, lots of reading and sitting around. We did manage to go and see one of two jobs that they have running at present. Styx bridge

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]]> http://www.robeaton.org/index.php/2005/07/26/unable-to-sleep/feed/ 0 Well It’s Another Day http://www.robeaton.org/index.php/2005/07/21/well-its-another-day/ http://www.robeaton.org/index.php/2005/07/21/well-its-another-day/#comments Thu, 21 Jul 2005 11:06:30 +0000 Rob http://www.robeaton.org/?p=69 Well it’s another day. The weather is stunning, it’s 13c outside under the clear skys. Anyhow I’m having another lazy day recovering from the jet lag thing.

One thing that made me start writing today was that there is so much more light here. It appears at present completely different to the uk stuff – if

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One thing that made me start writing today was that there is so much more light here. It appears at present completely different to the UK stuff – if

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I arrived today at 12pm in Christchurch after traveling for the last 27hrs

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