by Frank | Nov 1, 2011 | What's Happening
The 2011 photo-finish we witnessed (above) and legendary Phar Lap winning in 1930 (right). Coinciding with a conference Hayley had to attend in Melbourne, we grabbed the chance to watch the Melbourne Cup live. The Melbourne Cup is one of the great Thoroughbred horse... 
by Frank | Jan 16, 2011 | What's Happening
A few pics from our boys’ weekend January 15th/16th 2011 Aidan Ho, Ben Gray, Craig Wells, Chris Tansley, Mike Tansley, Mark Shaw, Randhir Sewgolam, Simon Knox & FTO What a bunch of guys!! We drove out in the middle-of-nowhere, past Pigs Head Rd out Whananaki... 
by Frank | Aug 27, 2010 | What's Happening
In August we took the trip over to Brisbane, Australia catching up with Hayley’s sister Melanie, then travelled out to Tangalooma for a few days. Melanie is like us a keen scuba diver and has dived several spectacular sites around the world. In 2005 we went... 
by Frank | Mar 3, 2010 | What's Happening
The annual Paradise Shelduck hunt in the last weekend of February has just been. As tradition has been for quite a few years now, my hunting mate Craig and I spent the Saturday morning on the farm outside Kaikohe. This time my boy Aidan also came along. Now we just... 
by Frank | Feb 8, 2010 | What's Happening
Ten years ago, we celebrated the new millennium in the far north, with lots of fishing and diving. Hayley and I then also dived the Rainbow Warrior by the Cavalli Islands outside Matauri Bay, its final resting place after having been bombed in Auckland harbour by... 
by Frank | Nov 8, 2009 | What's Happening
Working with classic bird dogs I’ve always been fascinated by birds of prey. This is an ancient sport in the Middle East (Jørgen at the Danish Agertoften kennel sold pointers to Iraq back in the early 1980s, while the late Shah of Iran purchased several Danish...