• In Brief

    • Sigh, just about to ride home in the dark - daylight savings finishing is a bad thing. 4 days ago
    • I just found out that NZ was the first country that U2 got a number 1 single in. That makes me proud, and it was for "Pride" 1 week ago
    • U2 concert tonight, being opened by the Black Eyed Peas - should be a fun night! 1 week ago
    • Why do I never have my camera when I need it. Orange sun glowing of red leaves with a dark stormy background and me without a camera 2 weeks ago
    • I'm going to be home for 2 or 3 weeks in Feb, really excited about seeing my nephews 3 weeks ago
    • I am now legally a permanent resident of Canada - woo hoo 3 weeks ago
    • google maps street view is kinda creepy, i just looked at my parents house. I think there are some trees missing since i was there last 4 weeks ago
    • Going to see Pearl Jam and Ben Harper tonight - really quite excited!! 1 month ago
    • That's pre season, pre 1 month ago
    • Watching ore season hockey. Definately feeling like a season change is on the cards 1 month ago

Booter Day

Last Saturday we went back to Mt Seymour with some friends, different ones this time – Simon and Vanessa, good people who we enjoy riding with. There were some new friends to be made up there as well, Ashley and Rainbow (we have met these 2 before), Simon, Cam, AJ and Issac were new aquaintences and [...]

Snow Stuff

So I guess that seeing as how I entitled this blog “bikesandboards” that I ought to write about at least one of them.
This Sunday we went up to Mt Seymour and used the lifts for the first time (I have hiked up there twice before the season opened and played around in some of the fun terrain [...]

My Nephews cuter than yours:

I was talking to this girl at work the other day who was telling me how cute her nephew was, I said “mines cuter”, she said “there’s no way yours is cuter than mine” so i showed her these pictues and said “o.k. you win” and didn’t even show hers.
I’m a proud uncle to Mack [...]

Grammys, shammys

I stumbled across this article today and it blew me away, until now i had an element of respect for the grammys – even if I didn’t particularly like the artist, they were popular enough to get the votes and therefore deserved recognition.
The article is all about artists who never won a grammy. At first [...]

Rookie blogger

So, every once in a while i get an urge to write toughts which others might enjoy reading. Problem being, if i send those thoughts to random people by e mail i look like one of these prats who likes to comment on everything and make people listen.
The reality is that i do like to [...]