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| 1963 | The only time I was ever late to school! Howie's car wouldn't start. His father gave us a lift to the 8AM bus. | |
| 1966 | Got a haircut and bought "Five O'Clock World" by The Vogues. Made $2.20 in tips. |  |
| 1970 | Hawaii: Details in Peace Corps Journal. | |
| 1971 | Jone left today permanently. I went into Suva with White. We picked up Margaret Barrie and children in Nausori. I loaded up on books at Desai's where I found out that Jone is Lusi's cousin. I picked up some drum sticks and a snare for the drum at Dean's. Finished reading They Came to Baghdad by Agatha Christie in a park waiting for Ian. Looked over the cathedral. Ian finally arrived at 4:30PM. We went to Queen Elizabeth Barracks to see Isimeli, the Fijian broadcaster. We tried to get Sigston into a card game with no luck. Ian decided to not go to Suva for Isimeli's party, so we ended up playing cribbage. | 
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| 1972 | Chris brought me to Gail's and from there we went to Daniels' for a Richfield reunion. Played pool with Gail and Bill B until Steve N, Signe R, Rob and Rene arrived. I went through my notes pg 1 pg 2 pg 3 and that got us talking. Rob couldn't believe some of our stories. The Roeds and Swansons were over for Birthday Club, so the adults joined us for my movies and slides of Fiji. We broke up around 2AM. |  Kincy |
| 1973 | Up at 6:30AM. Brought the crates into to Williams & Gosling in Suva on school truck. $67 to ship three crates and a few tea chests to NZ. Immigration is letting us in on a temporary visa and one way tickets. On the way back we stopped at Korovou where we bought beer. I moved to the truck's tray for a bumpy ride back to QVS with four drunken Fijians Anisi, Kalevu, Seru and Jope while Gail was up front with Lenati. Anisi kept thanking me on behalf of the Lawaki village. The beer and ride got to me and I wasn't too hot once home. A while later Kalevu and Anisi came up looking for more beer. Brian came down and went on about the past week. |  not a choir  Anisi |
| 1974 | Sanders brought us to the airport and we had coffee/tea in the lounge before flying to Christchurch. Hour's flight with views of Nelson and Canterbury plains. It was cold and windy when we arrived to be met by Murphy in his mother-in-law's car. Took us through downtown area and we walked through the new town hall. Murph's livingroom is beautifully decorated and there many new paintings of his. Dog's name is Scampers. As soon as he explained that it rarely rains in CHCH it started. That didn't stop him giving us a tour of Brighton Beach and then over the hill to Lyttleton and Governor's Bay. Tried to showed us the view of CHCH from the summit there, but rain and clouds didn't allow it. Meanwhile, the car's wipers were slowly dying. Picked up Mrs Griffin and her dog, Susan. Chatted until 11PM. Megan has chicken pox. She remembered us and Ghetto. We slept in Megan's room and luckily they gave us electric blankets. |  Gov Bay |
| 1976 | Brought the last of the books to the house. Gail went shopping at Super Valu - $68, we put the receipt onto the wall when the groceries were delivered [ed. - in 2008 we spend $200-$300 a trip]. Murray Jefferies, a dectective, was here looking for Lampitt (one of our renters), so I put him onto WERE. Began scything the lawn and cutting back branches. David has trouble getting through the tall grass. I walked to the dairy (4 minutes) to get milk. Audrey, Frances, Lyndsey, Fiona Dickson with Anna stopped in to say "hi". Mike brought over a mirror, foam, sleeping bags and blankets so we could sleep in our house for the very first time. | 
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| 1977 | Up at 6:30AM with Renee. Mrs Dent gave us more beans. Kelly came over to play and later Te went for a ride with her family. Fellow on corner has two ginger cats that Te likes to play with. Aldies came for a cuppa. More garden work. Came in to watch a Francis the Talking Mule movie. |  |
| 1979 | Tennis at Papakura Club for the first time (Gail is a member through Squash). I won 6 - 3. Spent afternoon sawing up firewood at Mike's shop which we put into the garage. | |
| 1980 | T - Letter (pg 1 pg 2) to mom. Gail came home for her break feeling depressed. While chopping out roots of two bushes in front yard the axe handle broke. Mark Benson spent the day with kids. Cleaned and painted Ne's trike. Went to bed at 6:45PM! | |
| 1981 | Th - Went to coffee and doughnuts with ELT group. Talked to Terry Grom who had taught in Vienna. Rick was full of good stories. Skunked both Paul and Curt. Saw Dr Roberts and he said my urine was free of blood, so it may have been a very small kidney stone the other day. Mary Reckinger's birthday tomorrow so she brought in doughnuts and I managed to wolf down 3. Carolyn Elliott has glasses now and she looks old in them. Card and note from Bob Piper. Gail worked 5 - 9PM. Watched Gophers beat Wisconsin 76 - 60. |  |
| 1982 | F - Had a sunflower seed butter and jelly sandwich. Little difference to peanut butter. After work we played walleyball at Woodbury Raquet Club. PSD lost to WorkComp, elders beat youngsters and beards beat shavers. Schauer is good. Played for 90 minutes. Home with a sore back and a much needed soak in the tub. Read letter for more. | |
| 1984 | Su - Kids baked Grandma Joyce a cake and we brought it over to celebrate her birthday. Last payment to Dick for house loan. Gave him a log holder. Met 2 month old Lucky, a nipping poodle. Watched playoff games with Dick while others went shopping. |  |
| 1985 | Spent whole day working on the new Phase 1 system CLIST. Paul beat me at cards but I bought him a cone for his birthday anyway. I was given a parking spot in American Linen lot ($10/mo). Dr. Post gave me drops and tested my eyes and came up with a new prescription which is much weaker and has no prism. Tom Kelley called - I had sent him a birthday card. He is in Mensa. Was on a team for WCCO sports trivia contest last year. | |
| 1986 | Neil Robinson got into action and got the mysterious appropriation number so I could put the Admin order in. That meant that meeting Graham Jones at long last as I needed his signature. Same thing happened with Pauline Hutter's computer so we ran up to Bold's office to get his signature. Home to find a nice letter from "supervisor" Faust, with excerpts on NZ wines. Supper and bed as I am still frazzled. Ne built a tent in the living room and slept there. | |
| 1987 | Simon and Fran stopped in to get spare sleeping bags and linen. Came in a red Mazda for just a short visit. We hit the road at 11:30AM. Stopped at the "castle" for the first time. Turned out to be an ordinary shop inside of it. Everyone else had ice cream but no one offered any to me. Had to park a couple blocks away from the Thames Info Center as it was Market day and crowded. I stewed (because I could see rain clouds coming) in the car for an hour while Gail and kids checked it out. Drove thru K Valley to end where Mike met us and brought us to Wainora Camp (someone had removed the US flag I gave them to put out as a signal). Began to rain as we arrived. We set up below Sanders' (Leanne Holden with Lia) tents. |  |
| 1988 | Spent day painting, inside and out. Christmas card from Leland and Marge. Gail away camping at Shakespeare Park with kids. |  |
| 1989 | Called mom and we spoke to her for 30 minutes ($110). Threatening day - head and throat still hurt. Letter and birthday card for Wally. Murphy called to check on his fishing reels. They liked our van so much that they are looking for one now. Friend of Karen L who just returned after 5 years in England checked with us as to whereabouts. Read "The Hands" by John Baxter. | |
| 1991 | Peter T over to say that Jill is in England with her ailing parents (so another hubbie with wife not around - see Dec 31). Renee began drawing faces and is all keen about it. Called Susi and told her to watch Hi De Hi's "Drown Your Granny" episode. | |
| 1992 | Went to Kawakawa at low tide for a short float in the cool wind. Ne walked to the nearby town. | |
| 1993 | Showed Purvis my knee and he sent me off for blood tests. Letter and card from Carol Seaton. Painted a kitchen window. Went around yard with chainsaw. First time to Janine and Jim's for TP with Ronda. |  |
| 1995 | Dropped Ne at White's. Gail and I went surfing - gentle clean waves. Back to White's to watch home videos. Supper on their new barbeque. Couple games of Upwords. Met Steve's girl from Nauru, Sally. Home at midnight. | |
| 1997 | W - Made up the ConRUTulations card. Van failed WOF because of rust. Gail and I went to The Warehouse where we ran into Peter Molyneux (from Rosehill). Bought a "Rash" shirt for surfing (because it prevents rash) and The Best Punk Album in the World...ever CD ($39.99). Physio for work on my radius. Plumber put a new thermostat onto the water heater, but still the same problem. Letter, envelop and card from Aldies. |  |
| 1998 | Th - Mike C joined Doug and I for the first time (ed. - think it was also the last]. Since he was wearing Jaguar I made him wash and gave him a shirt to wear. He brought along a couple "P" albums to play while we played Music Mania until midnight when we declared Mike the winner. |  |
| 1999 | Up at 11AM. Made coffee and went back to bed. Up at 2:30PM to drink coffee then go back to bed. I was forced up at 5PM so we could go to White's for Doug's farewell. Nathan (Rainbow's End) was there with Tracy. Tima was also on hand. We played pitanque and ate. Gave Doug a New World calendar. Gail and I went to Mike's for TP. Almost in an accident at the Kingseat-Glenbrook intersection. Met Ann Houghton who is a neighbor of Mike's and works at London Bookshop in Manuakau. Letter and card from Shirley. |  |
| 2000 | Got more antibiotics from Steve but he turned down my invite for a meal - can't be friends with patients. Mitre 10 where I chatted to a fellow about the USA and Bali while picking out a paintbrush. Over to Emery's where I spent three hours with Christopher trying to get a Muppet Calendar to run - not enough memory. Showed him how to add sound to a BASIC program. Dropped Bee mirror off at Wrights. Cribbage when Gail and David got back from a barbeque at Whites. Letter (pg 1 pg 2) from Mom. | |
| 2001 | Christmas mail finally arrives: Elbers, Eliason, Lees (Letter [pg 1 pg 2)](and an email from Karen came today also), Hoffsis (card), Schwitters, Fred (card) and Streasick. Into town to pay electric bill and get stuff at Mitre 10. Cleaned pool's salt cell. Lost at Cribbage and then crashed until supper. Couple of games of crib with Ne. |  |
| 2002 | Loaded van and hit the road around 12:30PM, stopping at Pak n Save to get supplies. David drove to Kopu and I took us over the small mountains. We stopped on the way to have the lunch Gail had made for us. Ne and Steph had arrived at Opoutere much earlier than us. Nick and Christine had done a huge amount of work last week making the main caravan liveable again (it had major roof and hot water tank leaks). I had a cup of coffee to relax and Chris was straight to the creek to fish. Set up our tent way back in amongst the trees and out of sight of the buildings. Then it was time to build a fire and roast hot dogs for supper then roasted a couple marshmallows. I was so tired that I was first one to bed (in the tent with Chris). Ne and Chris were eeling once it got dark (Ne got one). Steph had the garage bedroom, David used the main caravan and Ne was in the dome tent. |  fishing  tenting  chopping |
| 2003 | Up at 11AM to find others had gone for a walk, so ate me pancakes and read. Chris came back from fishing with David and Adam. We left around 1PM, stopped for a sandwich in Ngaruawahia, hit rain just north of there and got home about 4PM. I went straight to bed with a migraine. Post card from cousin Steve in Hawaii. Christmas card from Jim F. emails from Chris (photo of Ce's birthday), Mike H. who wants to buy a CD-RW with Christmas bonus, Woody with news that Taina's mother has died, Roche, Audrey, Edith and Matt with photos from New Year's eve in OZ. Box from States arrived. Watched NZ show about ME that Berthe taped. | 
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| 2004 | email and photo from Judy. Skunked Gail at cribbage when it was time for coffee. Finished reading The Death of Ivan Ilych and Other Stories by Tolstoy. Crashed from 6:30 to 8:30PM. Put curtain rods onto studio windows. Filled nail holes on garage stairwell trim. email and photo from Diane G. |  Malleys |
| 2005 | deV's stopped by to pay me for the CDs. Ne left lights on, so I had to drive over to Jordans and use the battery starter thingie that I gave to Steph. We had kabobs from a new shop in Waiuku. Whites over for bridge and the men trounced the women, winning second rubber in two hands which is what we should have done in the first one, but it took us a while to do it. |  Fez  Holly |
| 2006 | Ian came by for a visit. Watched The Exorcist II: The Heretic. | |
| 2007 | Out the door and zipped out to Steph's and returned her computer and hooked up the washing machine. Then Smithers' 6 bedroom lovely place in Howick. Had lunch and then spent afternoon catching up. I brought up the lino in his garage in his first place and he mentioned that it was Benygloe - same street that Bev currently lives on. Stopped in at Clark's to feed the pigs and visit Ne. Letter and card from Mom - car blew up and cost $3000 in repairs. | 
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| 2008 | Graeme came over to finish gibstopping the bathroom. Steph came by for a visit with gifts including a bottle of wine. | |
| 2009 | Daily chore: go through veggie garden and bring in whatever is ready, but today I also had to get down a few avocados. Skunked Gail at cribbage. Laps at 10:30PM and the water was so warm. Watched In Case of Emergency. |  |
| 2010 | F - email out of the blue from Dennis Okolski (PCV). Won cribbage game. Card and letter from Gutzke. Card and letter from Eliason. Card and letter from Gwen. Card (see it at right side), article about Mark and letter from Jerry. Card and letter from Lori. Laps and then we watched "50 First Dates" because Dennis lives in Hawaii. |  |
| 2011 | Sa - Card for Wallis. Won cribbage game. Called Atmores and spoke to Colleen - their very old computer has died. Mini-Whites over for a swim and Madison's first time in the pool. Laps in beautifully warm pool. |  |
| 2012 | Su -Quick trip to DSE to get a 23" monitor (and give my old 19" to Gail who's 15" has stopped working). Over to Colleen's with Ne for a drink (Five Flax '10 Merlot Cabernet). After supper it was Dominion. | |
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