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Sofie Bribiesca

Sun, 30 Mar 2008 16:05:27 +1300

Thanks, dude. Hopefully they go down to size '00'.

Just got a text. He found t shirt @ Vic park market. Only xl though. Suggested would make a great sleeping bag. hah!

REPLY: Thanks for the further information, Sophie. Looks like Bob and I might have to make our own tee-shirt--DH

David Haywood

Wed, 26 Mar 2008 14:39:36 +1300

Crile Doscher wrote:

And when do we get to see Part 7, pray tell?

Rob Stowell wrote:

Ditto- we want to see Oil! Dissected! Before it's all gone...

Alright, alright, I'm doing it already! You sounds like my producers (who are also interested in the answer to this question). I've…

Sofie Bribiesca

Mon, 24 Mar 2008 15:59:43 +1300

David, Not sure what stock is available, but he got the t-shirt from Here

NigelW

Sat, 22 Mar 2008 15:42:03 +1300

Thanks for the wonderful post. Born n bred at 464 Avonside Drive, tossing stones at agile ducks in the evening mists, paddling up Dudley Creek, siting on our front door step feeding swans swimming in the flood water – didnt get to school until the tide went out – but…

merc

Fri, 21 Mar 2008 13:06:52 +1300

Quikrippabong have a lot to answer for. Winter in the waves is a good time, no crowds, just the locals usually, stiff offshores pluming rooster tails to the shore, fish, many fish and long period swells stretching to the horizon in corduroy lines...(thanks Big Wednesday) and the latest wetsuit from…

Sofie Bribiesca

Fri, 21 Mar 2008 11:40:57 +1300

it is cold, you cannot feel your feet, there is no-one around and the surges of fear pulse stronger as you try to suppress all thought and concentrate on your thumping ice cream head ache..

Brrrrrrr, I had to go put on some socks.Most descriptive Merc, You put me right in…

Rob Stowell

Thu, 20 Mar 2008 16:51:36 +1300

Ditto- we want to see Oil! Disected! Before it's all gone...

Crile Doscher

Thu, 20 Mar 2008 13:56:39 +1300

First time poster – love the show

DH – here's an interesting article in a recent Economist – free standing turbines:

http://www.economist.com/science/tq/displaystory.cfm?story_id=10789262

And when do we get to see Part 7, pray tell?

merc

Wed, 19 Mar 2008 14:30:13 +1300

I'd estimate that they travel in the order of a kilometre. You see them paddling back for ages.

Excellent observation, I must warn you though, people have been disappearedfor revealing that length of ride...personally I'm so jealous (Muriwai is a short wave at best and a hard paddle out most…

Pauline Dawson

Wed, 19 Mar 2008 14:19:17 +1300

I'm interested to know why you felt that you had to lose it

when I first moved to Wellington in the late '80s my accent was the target of a lot of derision. I was tryign to get away from Southland wanted to elave the accent behind. Now I wish…

David Haywood

Tue, 18 Mar 2008 19:19:59 +1300

Sorry, I have been away from the internets — apologies for not replying to some of these questions earlier...

Charles Mabbett wrote:

Will you have broadband?

We have Woosh, which is like a cross between normal broadband and O'Reilly, the Irish builder from Fawlty Towers. The word 'Whoosh' conjures up…

Pauline Dawson

Tue, 18 Mar 2008 17:09:54 +1300

I was just reading about Jen's research. I had a very broad Southland R which I worked VERY hard at losing when I moved north. My family makes fun of me now because I don't have a trace of it. Oddly it turns up in my 5 year old on…

merc

Mon, 17 Mar 2008 15:23:18 +1300

Apparently due to a warmer current that flows through Foveau and other macro-climatic conditions on land, parts of Southland are warmer than the greater area norm.

dc_red

Mon, 17 Mar 2008 13:43:22 +1300

I do have a sense (albeit a vague one) that the weather in southland is better than that in coastal Otago. Perhaps it's more sheltered from the easterly? But geez, talk of that coastal fog brings back some unpleasant memories of Dunners. :-(

merc

Mon, 17 Mar 2008 08:07:20 +1300

Sofie, yup, Jaws is a tow-in wave ( and totally terrifying)...paddling in has it's own set of challenges. Down below 45 degrees latitude it's a whole new frontier. Slack water between shore and the reef with GW's hungry from their trip over from Tasmania, 3 tonne rottweilers in the form…

Sofie Bribiesca

Sun, 16 Mar 2008 14:54:29 +1300

I suspect that Bob is not as selfless as your well-trained lasses — he likes to help himself to sips of my beer (which, now that I think of it, is probably illegal for an eight-month-old in a pub).

actually totally legal as long as you stay at the pub with…

Sofie Bribiesca

Sun, 16 Mar 2008 13:14:16 +1300

Oh by the way, if anyone is interested here are some waves. WAVES

Sofie Bribiesca

Sun, 16 Mar 2008 12:40:20 +1300

Surfed it, it's more scary than Hawaii.

Whateven more so than Jaws?

John

Fri, 14 Mar 2008 22:54:15 +1300

When I went to Timaru Boys High we were taught Pythagoras theorem by a teacher called C.A.S. Hind. Of course his nickname was cash, but more to the point I have a problem in getting to grips with the fact that a highly trained engineer associates Greeks and Triangles (…

Leigh Kennaway

Fri, 14 Mar 2008 21:51:19 +1300

I suspect that Bob is not as selfless as your well-trained lasses — he likes to help himself to sips of my beer (which, now that I think of it, is probably illegal for an eight-month-old in a pub).

You do realise that if he gets drunk and obnoxious it…

tussock

Fri, 14 Mar 2008 17:25:33 +1300

Danielle, my parents tell the same stories of swimming weather in southland in the 40's. Hotter summers and colder winters goes the story.

By my own recollections of the 80's, it's just so damn cold in the winter that a 20 degree sunny day in the mid summer feels like…

Jen Hay

Fri, 14 Mar 2008 14:25:26 +1300

Linger:

For the whole year. After Riverton, we'll be tripping around, including stops in Wellington, Sydney, New York, Berlin, Newcastle upon Tyne and San Francisco. And all with a bad baby in tow. We probably need our heads read.

Shep:

We exchanged a house on the flat for a house…

merc

Fri, 14 Mar 2008 14:15:08 +1300

Surfed it, it's more scary than Hawaii.

Angus Robertson

Fri, 14 Mar 2008 14:05:19 +1300

Who needs Thai? Riverton is home to the best fish and chips, you are a lucky man.

After the town of Gore, we left the main highway and headed towards the ocean.

Technically you turned away from the ocean, climbed up hill and drove across the middle of the Southland…

Shep Cheyenne

Fri, 14 Mar 2008 13:55:49 +1300

Riverton has a 1km surf break & a history the predates 1835 by quite a few hundred years.

It has a great place to eat where there are heaps of those award plates on the walls.

I'ld not fish or swim in the river because of the dairying.
Southlands Dairy Ind…

linger

Fri, 14 Mar 2008 13:24:42 +1300

I figured it had to be something like that; otherwise the commute would have been something unbelievable. So you've got a sabbatical this year to do the research, Jen? or just the one term?

Jolisa

Fri, 14 Mar 2008 13:23:42 +1300

Aha! That makes total sense. Now I'm picturing you guys floating aforementioned books, instruments and baby gear upriver on a small boat, to save on moving expenses, with Bob-the-baby sculling over the stern like a good little Swallow.

Jen Hay

Fri, 14 Mar 2008 13:13:01 +1300

We sold the gorgeous house on the Avon in order to buy another gorgeous house on the Avon – 600 metres up river, and big enough to accommodate all our books, David's many musical instruments, and Bob's small mountain of stuff.

Since our path home from Riverton to Christchurch will…

Jolisa

Fri, 14 Mar 2008 13:02:58 +1300

I'm struggling with the maths... is Riverton so fearfully pricey that you had to sell that gorgeous house on the Avon in order to pay 3 months' rent?

Or did you secretly buy the entire town, just to facilitate Jen's research?

Or did you guys just get out of the…

Judi Lapsley Miller

Fri, 14 Mar 2008 12:35:24 +1300

You're more than welcome David :-)
Lovely to catch up with you both and to meet the Bad Baby Bob (who is actually adorable!). Glad you and the custard all made it down south safe and sound.

As for the Pope – with all those extra sins to commit, I…

Tim Michie

Fri, 14 Mar 2008 12:12:41 +1300

Paul who? And can someone tell me what that boxy glass fronted them in my living room is? It looks like an old styly CRT VDU but no matter how many time I restart it I can't see a mouse pointer...

Bob's maturing quickly – clearly showing sensitivity to his…

Russell Brown

Fri, 14 Mar 2008 12:06:00 +1300

I'm sorry to say that this is exactly the sort of response that I've come to expect from a Timaruvian. In fact, I believe Owen McShane has even written a paper showing that Timaru could have become a world class city ...

And isn't this so typical of the kind…

David Haywood

Fri, 14 Mar 2008 11:56:48 +1300

Russell Brown wrote:

You do realise I can change your password any time I like?

I'm sorry to say that this is exactly the sort of response that I've come to expect from a Timaruvian. In fact, I believe Owen McShane has even written a paper showing that Timaru could…

Emma Hart

Fri, 14 Mar 2008 11:54:32 +1300

Is Russell Brown from Timaru? I didn't know that.

Teehee.

Charles Mabbett

Fri, 14 Mar 2008 11:45:41 +1300

Is Russell Brown from Timaru? I didn't know that.

Russell Brown

Fri, 14 Mar 2008 11:11:47 +1300

In addition to half-a-dozen excellent Russell Brown/Timaru jokes ...

You do realise I can change your password any time I like?

Kyle Matthews

Fri, 14 Mar 2008 10:40:29 +1300

Do they have any Thai restaurants down there.

I don't know about Invergiggle, but there's one in Gore. It's owned... or it was the last time I knew anything... by the brother of the guy who owns all... four or five Thai restaurants in Dunedin. Neither of them are anything…

Danielle

Fri, 14 Mar 2008 10:30:22 +1300

Do they have any Thai restaurants down there.

I had really good tapas in Invercargill once. No, I did! Seriously!

Also, if you're into op-shopping and vintage kitchenalia collectables, Invercargill is *the shit*. I've never seen so many awesome shiny vintage cardies and original crushed-ice formica dining sets. For extremely…

jon_knox

Fri, 14 Mar 2008 10:26:54 +1300

There was a couple of interesting scientists living in Riverton by names of Kiri and Chris....welll they were living there a couple of years ago (2006) when I was riding a bicycle round the island. They were involved in measuring the rate at which NZ Forests act as carbon sinks.…

Simon Pound

Fri, 14 Mar 2008 10:24:29 +1300

Thank you David, I really enjoyed reading that, the tone and pace were lovely.
And I always love learning a wonderful new word (new to me anyway!). Gemütlichkeit.
So thanks on two counts.

merc

Fri, 14 Mar 2008 10:10:05 +1300

The surf, the surf...

Robyn Gallagher

Fri, 14 Mar 2008 10:04:38 +1300

We are in Southland so that Jennifer can run her diabolical brain/language experiments on the hapless Southlanders.

The linguistic geek in me is very excited by this news. I see that Riverton has a Church Street and a Herbert Street, perfect for the Southland R. I eagerly await her findings!

Charles Mabbett

Fri, 14 Mar 2008 10:04:38 +1300

Hi David,

that's a fascinating project that Jen is undertaking. Has there been a flood of candidates after the Southland Times article was published? Will you have broadband? Is the water warm enough for swimming? Is Invercargill going to become an oil exploration boom town? Do they have any Thai…

Kyle Matthews

Fri, 14 Mar 2008 09:54:52 +1300

Hey David,

That bit on the left of your comments, where it says 'From: Christchurch'.

Still technically true, because you went from there, to somewhere else.

But I think Riverton could claim a massive increase in blogging and commenting, statistically, if you changed it.

__REPLY: Good point — I've just…

Raymond A Francis

Fri, 14 Mar 2008 09:31:31 +1300

Spent a very pleasant afternoon in Riverton last early December
My first visit to the very far south
The kids (exchange students) went swimming and we lay in the sun ,truely the Riviera of the South
But the trees were only a meter high and stretched 20 meters away from…

Danielle

Fri, 14 Mar 2008 08:17:31 +1300

I took my husband all around Riverton and Tuatapere and other ancestral homelands about a year ago. My mum swears she used to swim regularly in Riverton (the 'Riviera of the South'!). I can't imagine it. It seems as though it would be freezing, even in February!

It's nice, though.…

Paul Campbell

Fri, 14 Mar 2008 08:06:24 +1300

we prefer Paul Henry up where he is .... you could take him off the telly though, you may not have noticed but he's very annoying

Pauline Dawson

Fri, 14 Mar 2008 07:35:32 +1300

Ah Riverton. Growing up in Southland we had a crib there (NOT a bach). My relatives were (and are still) from all round the southern coast. Your post and photo have made me think about going 'home' again

Paul Brislen

Fri, 14 Mar 2008 07:15:09 +1300

You know, you could have Paul Henry... if you want. We can arrange such things.

Just, y'know... if you want.

Paul Dowden

Fri, 14 Mar 2008 01:42:20 +1300

I have very fond memories of an Easter at a rented crib near Curio Bay as a kid. When the Southerly was really going for it (the original that is) we would go down to the beach in raincoats and open them up like bats' wings, jump in the air…

ali bramwell

Fri, 14 Mar 2008 01:04:48 +1300

on the other hand, facing down the Foveaux Straight into the teeth of autumn will be quite bracing.

Deborah

Fri, 14 Mar 2008 00:59:38 +1300

Repeat after me: "Preview is my friend. Preview is my friend. Preview is my friend..."

Deborah

Fri, 14 Mar 2008 00:58:26 +1300

Adelaide sounds a little too warm.

Yes! We're in the midst of a completely unprecedented heatwave. Previously, since records began, there have been eight spells of eight days worth of very high (over 35.0 degrees) temperatures. We are not at day 11 over very hot days, and it's not due…

David Haywood

Fri, 14 Mar 2008 00:05:34 +1300

I suspect that Bob is not as selfless as your well-trained lasses — he likes to help himself to sips of my beer (which, now that I think of it, is probably illegal for an eight-month-old in a pub).

We are in Southland so that Jennifer can run her diabolical…

Deborah

Thu, 13 Mar 2008 23:54:29 +1300

At about five o'clock, we go for another walk, and Bob encourages me to buy a pint of beer.

Clever lad. We have taught our daughters to pour wine, and our eldest lass brings us coffee in bed on Saturdays and Sundays. Just plunger coffee, but made with freshly ground…

David Haywood

Thu, 13 Mar 2008 23:24:50 +1300

A Short and Apologetic Postscript

For some reason, this was a piece that didn't spring easily from my keyboard. I ended up cutting more than a thousand words from the original draft in order to lick it into shape. In addition to half-a-dozen excellent Russell Brown/Timaru jokes, the section that…

Public Address

Thu, 13 Mar 2008 23:24:50 +1300

Discussion from blog post.