Looks like the last blog entry for the construction was in September 2020! Well, we moved in at the end of July 2021. A long…
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Published December 25, 2021
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Published December 15, 2021
South Island Road Trip – October 2020
Well, despite the best intentions we have failed to keep the blog updated for over a year so this is where the catch-up starts! We…
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Published September 7, 2020
WALLS! We have walls!
Well, for those of you patiently(!) waiting for an update, here it is…. Like all of you we have been going through the COVID cycles…
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Published April 14, 2020
Update – 16 April 2020
Hello everyone, We hope you and your families are all well in these uncertain times. As some of you will have noticed, after a bit…
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Published April 8, 2020
Breaking Ground – and ‘All-Stop’.
Well, it’s been a couple of months since our last page and, sadly, very little progress on the actual house. We were hoping this phase…
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Published January 30, 2020
Visit from an Old Friend
Those of you that share an Applied Materials EHS legacy will remember John Blades from the Horsham group. John had been in touch before Christmas…
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Published January 30, 2020
Looking forward to the start….of the house!
As most (or all) of you will know, we have been working for some time preparing for the build of our new home. Our architect…
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Published December 26, 2019
Northland
December 18th and we headed north to explore. Well, we had an ulterior motive – we wanted to visit the place where they are making…
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Published December 10, 2019
New Plymouth
Off to New Plymouth for a few days. Well, actually there are three goals: drive the ‘Forgotten World Highway’, visit Mount Taranaki, explore New Plymouth.…
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Published November 25, 2019
Katikati
We are off to Katikati today, a little town just north of the East coast resort of Tauronga. Katikati is known for two things: avocado…
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