iPad + Pogo Sketch Stylus + Adobe Ideas application = hours spent this evening tracing a picture of a lighthouse. As you do. And now that I’ve done with drawing, it must be time for some jungle juice and a story before bed.

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Headed up to R & M’s* hut on the Poolburn Reservior for a couple of days on the 2nd of Jan. No, I was not on a Lord of the Rings tour. Even the locals seem to have abandoned that particular cash-cow – I’m sure there used to be a LOTR mural painted on the [...]

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Today I drove down to Invercargill for lunch (as you do), so I took my iPhone with my newly-bought TomTom New Zealand app on it (confusingly the app is referred to as both v1.0, and app version 8.150). It is definitely much, much nicer to use than my old Uniden, which is simply horrible for [...]

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Today we had most of the day off – things didn’t start till 3:30 (some people were flying in from as far away as Perth! Gosh….). We had breakfast in a little place next door to the hotel then had a stroll through the sunday market by the beach (which is what the marquees are [...]

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So now I know WHERE the Gold Coast is.  I must admit to some initial confusion about exactly where we were travelling to, the “Gold Coast” not being, as far as I knew, a city.  It turns out that Coolangatta Airport = Gold Coast, so here we are. The trip over was uneventful and unblogworthy.  [...]

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