by Frank | Jan 26, 2015 | What's Happening
We’re back in New Zealand after having spent a year traveling in Europe. Naturally, a lot of that time was spent with family in my birth country Norway and also some in my later adopted country of Sweden. The picture on the right was taken by my wife Hayley, in... 
by Frank | Jul 11, 2014 | What's Happening
I am writing these updates from a restored old farm house in the Saône-et-Loire department of eastern France, as we are four months into our year long sabbatical travels in Europe. We left an interesting Lyon the other day in a scorching 37C heat and even up here at... 
by Frank | Jan 24, 2014 | What's Happening
Sunrise at Ocean Beach with Moulin in a frame from the film “Instinct”, shot in 2003 when she was nearly two years old. Moulin on Ocean Beach with Hayley in February 2002, shortly after her arrival in New Zealand, just turning six months old. I arrived in... 
by Frank | Jan 16, 2014 | What's Happening
John Dory for dinner! The sights and smells of summer.. Finnefupster digging into some late night crab. Snapper treated like a piece of meat – inspired by Jamie Oliver. Early up to hit the water at dawn. This is first light at Bream Bay before Aidan and I went... 
by Frank | Sep 11, 2013 | What's Happening
Another New Zealand hunting season gone, from the first Saturday in May to the last Sunday in August. Fairly good numbers of pheasants. In particular, we’ve had lots of good situations on hen pheasants (which in NZ are protected). There seemed to have been a...