30th Celebrations......

Sam (aka la pottie potta) turned 30 the other day and we headed out to his family's land on the coast to celebrate

View of Castlepoint from Mataikona corner

Beekeeping at Bull Gully with Ivan the Bee Man Sam & Maggie outside the Bull Gully hut

Trish's birthday surprise for Sam...some off road biking adventures with possum kill thrown in at no extra charge. Thanks Trish!





The girls at Hellena's 30th party in Hatape. The dancin solos went off.


Me & the birthday girl. Congratulations H you rock

Oh yeah I do have a life outside of work....

Watch this space!

2006 Photo montage

Pictures speak a thousand words .....a day in the life of J9 2006

Lots of outdoorsy stuff, like working for WOP (Wairarapa Outdoor Pursuits) and yes, I am back living in Masterton! My mission is to convince all the old crew to come back and live here...its cheap, sunny and oh the potential

Andy & Trish workin hard
The flying fox at Te Whiti cave.....if only these students knew eh?

Hanging out in Sydney (ish) area on a 3 month contract working on a personal development programme for students from the States. Awesome people, awesome critters

The lovely Diggy coaching me through breaking my first board!

The crew

Pirate Party

Walking the plank....ahhhhhh!

And yep, I'm a sucker for punishment....still contracting to Project K on their 18 day Wilderness Adventures

Some of the PK team .....Vero, Leanne, Si & Makeri
Climbing up to Powell Hutt in the Tararua Ranges

Rafting the Waiohine river in the Wairarapa

Its a hard life!

First post yayyyyyyyyyyy!

Kia ora koutou katoa GREETINGS to you all!

Welcome to J9s blog. I was sitting on my NEW LAPTOP (yes very exciting) about to compose copious numbers of emails to make up for my lack of contact to dear friends worldwide when I was struck by the notion of setting up a blog instead. The novelty of email is wearing thin and I have already spent 2 hours today attaching photos to send abroad. Of course the doubts crept in...does anyone really give a shit? Will I need to create an alias in order to post to my own blog? Will readers fall asleep at their desks?

However as 'they' say Inspiration is a window that closes quickly
so here goes ......