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Wednesday 27 February 2013
A Yorkshire Lad
From Whitby all the way to Ship Cove, Queen Charlotte Sound. Captain James Cook's landing spot
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Postman Pat
Tuesday 26 February 2013
Come in number 16
More on mountains
Just the other day, near Punakiaiki and Westport, we passed a whole scientific range!
Mounts:
Fleming, Curie, Kelvin, Euclid, Rutherford, Einstein, Pasteur, Galileo, Copernicus, Lavoisier, Dewar, Priestly
Spent a fascinating 5 minutes working out who invented what!!
Mike said they must have been at the peak of their profession (but I didn't laugh)
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Mounts:
Fleming, Curie, Kelvin, Euclid, Rutherford, Einstein, Pasteur, Galileo, Copernicus, Lavoisier, Dewar, Priestly
Spent a fascinating 5 minutes working out who invented what!!
Mike said they must have been at the peak of their profession (but I didn't laugh)
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Architectural oddities
In Nelson today we spotted this
it's the Inland Revenue building. Almost as bad as our 'sandcastle' at home!
And this is the cathedral
Front . . .
and back . . .
with rather amazing stain glass windows inside
But interestingly it was designed by a Frank Peck in 1924 to a very traditional grand gothic style and the nave and the entrance you see at the back were partly built but in the 1950s, still incomplete, the money had run out and there are various drawings showing suggestions from very contemporary designs to traditional but more modest ones. This simple and cheaper style finally won out and the front and the tower outside is quite stark and grey. But on the inside it's quite fascinating, light and bright and a strange mix of periods! The organ is brilliant, standing on a magnificent modern wooden archway.
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it's the Inland Revenue building. Almost as bad as our 'sandcastle' at home!
And this is the cathedral
Front . . .
and back . . .
with rather amazing stain glass windows inside
But interestingly it was designed by a Frank Peck in 1924 to a very traditional grand gothic style and the nave and the entrance you see at the back were partly built but in the 1950s, still incomplete, the money had run out and there are various drawings showing suggestions from very contemporary designs to traditional but more modest ones. This simple and cheaper style finally won out and the front and the tower outside is quite stark and grey. But on the inside it's quite fascinating, light and bright and a strange mix of periods! The organ is brilliant, standing on a magnificent modern wooden archway.
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Monday 25 February 2013
More on significant birthdays
Think the birthday boy had lovely day. Despite being besieged by bumble bees at our (otherwise amazing) campsite just outside Murcheson.
This is he at the Pancake Rocks on the West Coast yesterday
Ate royally in the campsite kitchen and many nationalities wished him a happy birthday after I blew the secret (and the age)!!!
(Only just discovered late in the holiday that you can go to any library to use the Internet free, so here we are in the quite lovely Nelson Library)
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This is he at the Pancake Rocks on the West Coast yesterday
Ate royally in the campsite kitchen and many nationalities wished him a happy birthday after I blew the secret (and the age)!!!
(Only just discovered late in the holiday that you can go to any library to use the Internet free, so here we are in the quite lovely Nelson Library)
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Beach art
Shame about the face(s)
Sunday 24 February 2013
What's in a name
Studying the map, as you do, just love the names of some of New Zealand's mountains:
Mount Aspiring
Mount Awkward
Mount Glorioius
Mount Reticence
Mount Dreadful
Mount Action
Round Hill
and even Breast Peak, which sparks memories of a famously shaped hill Aunty Mike used to point out near LLanaelhaearn!
and best of all . . . Mount Liverpool. Up the reds (and I am happy and proud to include Sheffield United in that call)
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Mount Aspiring
Mount Awkward
Mount Glorioius
Mount Reticence
Mount Dreadful
Mount Action
Round Hill
and even Breast Peak, which sparks memories of a famously shaped hill Aunty Mike used to point out near LLanaelhaearn!
and best of all . . . Mount Liverpool. Up the reds (and I am happy and proud to include Sheffield United in that call)
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Snow here too
Saturday 23 February 2013
Jungle fever
Friday 22 February 2013
Middle Earth
Sad past
Moving visit today to the remains of the Chinese Settlement at Arrowtown. A sizeable contingent of gold miners in19th Century New Zealand were Chinese men trying to make a living for their families back home. But despite desperately hard work and harsh living for many years, they were badly ridiculed and never accepted by their European gold prospecting contemporaries. Most of the Chinese never made a better living and many died alone in New Zealand.
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Who could resist
Steamy
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