Richard Lunt arrived in town 10 days ago. He picked a pretty good weekend to turn up on with it being Rob's birthday and the Rugby World Cup final with a bank holiday to close.
While I worked midweek Lunt took off to the Waitomo Caves on a tour then to Rotorua where I met him for a Friday night on the tiles. Lots of fun. No time for a hang over as it was luging, zorbing then more booze on the Saturday.
I think we managed to fit quite a lot in and I was happy to see Lunt was in as good a form as ever.
Check his blog for some pictures and (less amusing) write up of his trip.
I took the soft option and, rather than upload a zillion pictures, have created an action-packed video for your enjoyment.
Clear your schedule - it's 10 minutes long...
Monday, October 29, 2007
Thursday, October 11, 2007
Oops they did it again...
Having widely slagged off northern hemisphere rugby and already picked the 4 semi finalists for the Rugby World Cup, the All Blacks follow their Tasman cousins on the plane back home.
The fall out here has been pretty spectacular. Imagine what it's like when the England football team get knocked out of an international tournament, ie every other August, and then imagine if England were overwhelming favourites for that tournament.
Everyone and everything is to blame - the ref, their rotation policy, , reconditioning, lack of decent warm up games, the rules of rugby (my personal favourite). What it boils down to though is the ABs choked (again). They had plenty of time, possession and territory to set up a simple drop goal but they didn't.
Surprise, surprise, England are in the semis. I don't think anyone saw that coming. The game against the French should be close and is well worth forsaking the Sunday lie in.
I've probably lost the non rugby fans by now (99% of my audience), but if you're still here how about a little quiz? Most New Zealand sporting teams have a nickname, based around black, silver, fern etc. Here are a few examples:
All Blacks - obvious
All Whites - men's football
Black Caps - men's cricket
Tall Blacks - men's basketball
Silver ferns - netball
Football ferns - women's football
Black sticks - both hockey teams
Black cocks - badminton (seriously)
A new one was born recently and probably the best one I've heard yet. Who can tell me what the NZ lawn bowls team is called?
The fall out here has been pretty spectacular. Imagine what it's like when the England football team get knocked out of an international tournament, ie every other August, and then imagine if England were overwhelming favourites for that tournament.
Everyone and everything is to blame - the ref, their rotation policy, , reconditioning, lack of decent warm up games, the rules of rugby (my personal favourite). What it boils down to though is the ABs choked (again). They had plenty of time, possession and territory to set up a simple drop goal but they didn't.
Surprise, surprise, England are in the semis. I don't think anyone saw that coming. The game against the French should be close and is well worth forsaking the Sunday lie in.
I've probably lost the non rugby fans by now (99% of my audience), but if you're still here how about a little quiz? Most New Zealand sporting teams have a nickname, based around black, silver, fern etc. Here are a few examples:
All Blacks - obvious
All Whites - men's football
Black Caps - men's cricket
Tall Blacks - men's basketball
Silver ferns - netball
Football ferns - women's football
Black sticks - both hockey teams
Black cocks - badminton (seriously)
A new one was born recently and probably the best one I've heard yet. Who can tell me what the NZ lawn bowls team is called?
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