Well the rain and wind went away for a few days and we actually have had several days of nice sunny weather. I even managed to get into shorts for a few hours yesterday! However, another round of gale force winds and heavy rain is due to descend on us this afternoon and last for several days. There was an influx of boats arriving in the marina yesterday all coming in for shelter against the coming weather so it looks like it's going to be a miserable few days.
I've just read Julie's blog and see the temperature in Dubai was 48C. Does anyone in the Warren family live somewhere where the weather is good?
We went for a sail a couple of days ago, just out into the middle of Hawkes Bay and back again which was good and then yesterday we drove up to Mahia which is about 150kms away right up the top end of the bay. Neither of us has ever been in this part of the country and it was interesting seeing parts of NZ we had never seen before.
Congratulations to Kerrie and Leigh for both finishing and passing your courses. You most both be feeling very pleased with yourselves and should be proud of what you have achieved. It can't have been easy managing a family and studying at the same time. Congratulations also to Liam on achieving the ripe old age of one. Happy Birthday Liam.
Congratulations also to myself. It's two months today since I quit smoking.
Watch this space.
Sunday, 29 July 2007
Wednesday, 18 July 2007
Rain, rain, go away.
Rain, rain, more rain and strong winds have been the story of our life for the last couple of weeks. The weather here in Napier (and most of the North Island) has been diabolical almost from the day we arrived here. Apart from a couple of reasonable days its been constant rain and high winds.
We've spent the time working on the boat (finding leaks and trying to fix them), going into town for a break and generally sitting around waiting for the weather to improve. Unfortunately, the forecast is for much of the same for the next week. Our friends are in an even worse position, they've been stuck here for four weeks delivering a launch from Tauranga to Picton.
Some of you have already found out that our photosite is no longer working. Photosite advised us a week ago that they were closing the site down and moving all their customers to Snapfish.com. They have done that but it's not so easy to get into and navigate around the site so when new photos are added you'll get an email inviting you to view them.
Well that's about it for now, I'm off to look for new leaks.
We've spent the time working on the boat (finding leaks and trying to fix them), going into town for a break and generally sitting around waiting for the weather to improve. Unfortunately, the forecast is for much of the same for the next week. Our friends are in an even worse position, they've been stuck here for four weeks delivering a launch from Tauranga to Picton.
Some of you have already found out that our photosite is no longer working. Photosite advised us a week ago that they were closing the site down and moving all their customers to Snapfish.com. They have done that but it's not so easy to get into and navigate around the site so when new photos are added you'll get an email inviting you to view them.
Well that's about it for now, I'm off to look for new leaks.
Monday, 9 July 2007
More onboard
Looks like the photo upload is working now. 
It's now a couple of days since our stuff arrived and Doreen has worked wonders finding a place for almost everything. There is still a bit to do but at least we can live reasonably comfortably now.
I've spent the last week trying to make sense of all the knobs, dials and switches and fixing toilets and shower pumps etc but I'm slowly coming to grips with it all and should be ready to go sailing in a day or two.
The weather has been really cold the last few days with gales and snow storms sweeping the country. Cyclones and tornados have destroyed many buildings in Taranaki (the other side of the country from where we are in Napier) although it has been reasonably nice where we are.
Well that's it for now, more in a few days.
It's now a couple of days since our stuff arrived and Doreen has worked wonders finding a place for almost everything. There is still a bit to do but at least we can live reasonably comfortably now.
I've spent the last week trying to make sense of all the knobs, dials and switches and fixing toilets and shower pumps etc but I'm slowly coming to grips with it all and should be ready to go sailing in a day or two.
The weather has been really cold the last few days with gales and snow storms sweeping the country. Cyclones and tornados have destroyed many buildings in Taranaki (the other side of the country from where we are in Napier) although it has been reasonably nice where we are.
Well that's it for now, more in a few days.
Onboard at last
Well here we are, finally ensconced in our new surroundings on the good ship Irrepressible. I've just noticed that the last post was over a month ago on 30 May. My excuse for such slackness is that we were busy looking after a couple of kids in Australia for a month (well, it's sort of true). Actually, we had a great time in OZ, helping Kerrie and Rick with Sophie and Toby while Kerrie was doing day shifts at Redcliffe hospital then a week of (sort of) relaxation with Ange and Zane. It was great being able to spend so much time with them all and seeing how much the grandchildren have changed and in the case of Liam, actually seeing him change over the five weeks we were there.
We were due to leave on 18th July but in the end the attraction of the new life on the new boat got the better of us and we brought the flights forward by a couple of weeks.
Our friends met us at Christchurch airport with our car which they had been looking after and we drove straight up to Picton where we stayed with friends for a couple of days ,tieing up a number of loose ends then got the ferry to Wellington and drove up to Napier. The 30 or 40 cartons with all our gear in arrived a couple of days after we got here and after loading them all on board we stood around like a couple of stunned mullets wondering what we had let ourselves into.
I've just tried to upload more photos but nothing's happening so I think I'll publish this and try a new posting.
We were due to leave on 18th July but in the end the attraction of the new life on the new boat got the better of us and we brought the flights forward by a couple of weeks.
Our friends met us at Christchurch airport with our car which they had been looking after and we drove straight up to Picton where we stayed with friends for a couple of days ,tieing up a number of loose ends then got the ferry to Wellington and drove up to Napier. The 30 or 40 cartons with all our gear in arrived a couple of days after we got here and after loading them all on board we stood around like a couple of stunned mullets wondering what we had let ourselves into.
I've just tried to upload more photos but nothing's happening so I think I'll publish this and try a new posting.
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