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paturoa

27th June 2006, 09:44

Skyryder

27th June 2006, 18:53

Well where he lives anyway is on the front page of the harold today

http://www.nzherald.co.nz/search/story.cfm?storyid=000E9EDD-E69C-149F-BFE083027AF1010E

I thought it was cold this morning with a light frost!

Na. That's not the frost. That pics a left over from all the goose feathers, from the Guzzi rally.

Skyryder

Jantar

27th June 2006, 19:29

Beautiful, isn't it. Don't we just live in the most picturesque area of New Zealand?

paturoa

27th June 2006, 19:46

yeah but -13? and the ice too

oldrider

27th June 2006, 20:12

Wow, we made the Harold! Thanks for the five minutes of fame Paturoa, I didn't see much of it this morning, I had to go to town to get a new ball cock for our header tank!
Why don't these things shit themselves during the summer months instead of waiting until the temperatures drop to -12c and then you have to battle the freezing conditions as well while you fix them!
As soon as you peel all the insulation off to repair things, everything freezes solid cant run the fire cant run the water and if you don't get the job finished before nightfall you are in even deeper shit.
To top it all off, I brought the wrong parts today as well!!
Never mind, it might be a good excuse to rip into town tomorrow on the bike!
It's an ill wind (or frost) that blows nobody any good and good things take time! :blip: Cheers John.

Scorpygirl

27th June 2006, 20:17

Never mind, it might be a good excuse to rip into town tomorrow on the bike! It's an ill wind (or frost) that blows nobody any good and good things take time! :blip: Cheers John.

It's the rime ice that grows nobody any good!!! :blip:
BRRRRRRRRRRRR!!!!!

slowpoke

27th June 2006, 20:40

I grew up in Otematata. As a kid we just took it all for granted as we ran amok, but looking at it now it's an awesome area. You're a lucky bugger, "oldguy"!!

Oakie

27th June 2006, 21:02

Ahhh, the hoar frost is one of the few things I don't miss about the MacKenzie Basin having left there 4 years and 8 days ago.

oldrider

28th June 2006, 11:35

I grew up in Otematata. As a kid we just took it all for granted as we ran amok, but looking at it now it's an awesome area. You're a lucky bugger, "oldguy"!!
You must have gone to school with some of my kids then. John.

oldrider

28th June 2006, 11:39

Ahhh, the hoar frost is one of the few things I don't miss about the MacKenzie Basin having left there 4 years and 8 days ago.
Yeah, one year it went on and on for six bloody weeks, -21C ! :yes: John.

Oakie

29th June 2006, 19:34

Yeah, one year it went on and on for six bloody weeks, -21C ! :yes: John.
That John, was probably 1992, the year I was made redundant. Was looking forward to a few games of golf, post-redundancy, and the very next day after I finished, down came the snow followed by over a month of hoar frost which froze the poor old Twizel course solid. It was 7 weeks I think before it re-opened. So what did I do? I went fly fishing at Kellands Ponds. Totally different experience fighting a trout that is under the ice. Beware though. Overcasting your fly line and having it land on the ice ...means that the wet line freezes to the ice on contact. Bugger!