All Rugby All Weekend

On Wednesday Taranaki won the Ranfurley Shield for the first time in 15 years. On Saturday morning we opened our latest exhibition - It's not just a Game: Whanau, Whakapapa, Whutupaoro (that's Family, Genealogy, Rugby) and were lucky enough to have the Shield in attendance for 20mins. Today Taranaki played Hawkes Bay in defence of the Shield. It arrive by chopper and it's staying - we won!!!

Being green

I spent three days this week in Christchurch in a tiny temporary office with four others at the back of a barristers chambers doing data testing for our new library system. It's my first visit post quake and although I didn't get anywhere near the red zone there were still signs everywhere. The building we were in was ok...

the church across the road, not so much.

Beyond flipping cold

A couple of weeks ago we had snow down to 300m. Today it snowed in town - outside my window - at sea level - for half an hour. Such fun, as long as you are on the inside.

Wellington again

This time for training so 3 days of the inside of a training room. I did however, after thinking about it many times finally take this photo...

yes, the loos. They are at Wellington airport and given that the city is well known for it's windy weather I think it's a nice bit of fun that they have painted windswept hair onto the figures.