Oly’s Graduation

Oly takes out the first degree for the Hyde’s.
Here’s some photos of Oly receiving his Bachelor of Information Technology degree at the Weltec graduation ceremony.Well done Oly!

Procession of Graduands

In the queue ….

Wow - the actual moment of the conferment of Oly’s degree - Three and half years of hard work.

Ok, what’s going on here? A […]

Samuel’s Auckland apartment

The Precinct and Sky Tower from Albert Park

Samuel is now a property tycoon!After a long stint working in the mines in Western Australia, he is is now back in New Zealand and living in Auckland with Emma.This week he is completing the paperwork for his purchase of an apartment in the Auckland CBD.It’s a great […]

Samuel’s been and gone

Samuel had his first break from a long stretch working at Port Hedland and flew over the ditch to spend a few days at home.His friend, Emma stayed with us as well. He spent most of the time out and about with Emma, Thomas, Oly & Kelsey.After five days here he flew out to Port […]

Crusaders vs Hurricanes - 20 - 13

On a warm late autumn Friday night the family headed into Wellington City for the Crusaders clash with Wellington’s Hurricanes.We were treated to a pretty good game that the Crusaders easily won. Great atmosphere with a near capacity crowd of around 40,000.We had good seats with plenty of the game played in front of us. […]

Port Hedland - Update on Samuel

Western Australia

Samuel flies out from Brisbane this week to go all the way across Australia to Port Hedland.Port Hedland is way up in the north, 1761km from Perth.I’ve had a google about to see what Port Hedland is like and I think Sam is in for an interesting time.It can be summed up a place […]

The Garden City - Christchurch trip

A few months ago I scored a cheapee flight to Christchurch for myself from Air New Zealand’s ‘Grab a Seat’ website.
$88 return - good value and slotted nicely into the weekend of Feb 16th & 17th leaving Friday evening and returning Sunday evening.
Stayed with Mum & Dad Hyde.
Rained all day Saturday, but that was alright […]

The best seat in the house

Who runs your house, you or your dog?

Where’s Samuel?

Samuel working in Emerald, Queensland - November 2007

For the past year, Samuel has been working as an electrician at a couple of the open cast coal mines in Queensland. He will be finishing his present contract there shortly and is planning on doing another stint at a mine in the northern part of Western Australia […]

Tricky landing!

An Airbus A320 making a bad go of NOT landing at a German airport - March 2008

All is forgiven Wellington Airport - Did you catch the amateur video of the attempted landing of an Airbus A320 at a German airport during a weekend of fierce weather?
I thought Wellington had some hairy landings but this one […]

Electrical storm over Wellington

Lightening over Wellington - February 2008

Lightening Storm - Wow, this was a great lightening & thunder show.
Probably the loudest one I have have ever experienced.
At its peak, the gap between the clap of thunder and the lightening bolt was next to nothing.
One thunderclap was so close, the whole house shook.
This photo looks out over Wellington […]