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Hello Here are a couple of contact details for us while we are here in N.Z. We have a mobile but if you want the number drop us a mail cos I am not putting it on a website.
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Diary of events:
13 March 2003 - We left for New Zealand
18 March - We got a mobile phone.
23 March - We started this website.
2 April - Went to Kelly Tarltons.
11 April - We have a car and I am driving about.
14 April - Bernie + Carla both have jobs.
18 April - Went to Piha Beach - big bad surf.
26 April - Went kayaking at Fergs.
17 May - Visited M.O.T.A.T.
25 May - Visited Auckland Museum and forgot camera again.
31 May - Went on a road trip around the Coromandel.
29 June - We went on a road trip around the South Isand.
12 July - Back in Auckland with a very dirty car.
24 Aug - Start of Road Trip with Da Boyz
27 Sept - Had a stereotypical British Tea Party for Carla's Birthday.
25 Oct - Did a bit of SeaKayaking from 1 local to beach another, only to stop off for a pie and paddle back again.
10 Nov - Carla pretended to be Monica for a wk (covering her job while she on hols). Bernie continued to play builderman.
12 Nov - Bernie 1 year older. So Carla bought him a vest.
15 Nov - Carla starts work at Vanilla Cafe making gormet sarnies
Christmas Time spent with family.
27 Dec - went on short hols to Bay of Islands with Karen and Alex (via Tauranga to see pals)
5 Jan - Shopped and watched Piglets Big Movie - Very cool film!
6 Jan - Started last trip round NZ. Starting with a month in KeriKeri Kiwifruit picking. And then on to explore parts of the North Island not yet explored by us.
7 Feb - Back to Auckland to do our last stint of working before heading back to England on the 9th March
8 Feb - Ange (friend from Vanilla), Becky (friend from homegroup) and Monica (cousin) did Triathlon and am very proud of them...see photo on right
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Bernard 'Bernie' Boyles Born in November '76, Bernie grew up in Knaphill in South East England. Interminally dull as a child, things improved when he left home for a (wasted) university education during which the long term effects of alcohol have cost him a good 50% of his brain cells. Bernie is still quite dull on occasion, and his long distance seperation from his friends can only serve to spare them from comatose evenings infront of the 'telly' and 52 hour sessions playing "Silent Hill" and "Midnight Club". This was written by Rich. And the following was written by Carla's Mum. |
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Carla Ellen Mattison,
was born in Rinteln Military Hospital in West Germany. An unattractive baby her saving grace was the ability to sleep for 90% of the time. Fortunately, this has not changed and when pursuing a career in teaching she utilised her full sleeping capabilities: in lectures, in halls of residence, behind the bar and chiefly whilst writing essays. Carla has not currently noticed how dull Bernie seems to be as she is asleep most of the time. When she is awake for the other 10% she is very bouncy and takes this enthusiasm to the shops with her. Carla’s shoe collection is memorable, there is no shoe shop left unturned in the northern hemisphere which has lead to her spending 365 shoe shopping days in New Zealand. Since her departure from the UK several shoe shops have gone into liquidation but the Japanese market has increased four fold.
