2025

  • Renovations to 39 Richardson

  • Trips: Japan?

  • Walks: St James Walkway, Victoria Range, Heaphy

  • Visitors: Carrie et al, Niamh, Chris and Ann

  • Hopewell Lodge

2024

  • Move from Latitude 41 to 39 Richardson

  • Trips: Europe - France to Prague, Sablet, Iping

  • Walks: Taranaki, Twins x2, Fiordland, Nydia

  • Cycling: EV6, Taste Trail, Kawatiri

  • Sailing on Oyster with Saxby, Pohara

2023

  • Yet more travels in NZ, Oz and Europe

  • Trips: Australia, Europe - Drome, Mallorca, Finland, Sweden, Marseilles, Sommieres, Paris, HKG

  • Walks: Queen Charlotte, Whitcombe, Ellis, Milford, Mueller Hut

  • Cycling: Via Rhona, Dunstan, Coppermine

  • Andy & Chris, John and Kate’s wedding

  • Red Cross - Dana, Damelia and Jose

2022

  • Lots of travels in NZ, Europe & the Pacific

  • Trips: France, Lakes, Scotland, New Caledonia

  • Walks: Tongariro, Dragon’s Teeth, Old Ghost Road, Greenstone, Great Barrier, Queen Charlotte

  • Cycling: La Vélodyssée and Flow, Timber Trail, Dunstan, Otago Rail Trail, Alps to Ocean

  • QC kayak, Kapiti & Wanganui, Covid, Nelson floods

  • Dad’s memorial - Manchester

2021

  • Sell The Resurgence after 18 years

  • Squarma, Jaylene, Capstone & David

  • Walks: Hump Ridge, Cobb Valley, Lake Sylvester, Wangapeka, Angelus Hut

  • Cycling: Roxborough

  • Apartment - main floor renovations

  • FOF 20th, L41 Awnings, Peter’s 60th at Hopgoods

2020

  • Covid-19 and Lockdowns

  • NZ trips - Hanmer, Staveley, Hawke’s Bay

  • Walks: Abel Tasman with JKBKK

  • Cycling: Roxborough

  • Apartment - bathroom renovations

  • Resurgence - Joey’s beach bar - offer on the lodge

2019

  • Lodge managers and Apartment renovations

  • Trips - UK, Auragne, Pyrenees, Lacoste, Paris

  • Walks: Tongariro Crossing, Mt Arthur

  • Cycling: 42 Traverse, Timber Trail, Rotorua

  • Apartment - kitchen renovations

  • Resurgence - Adrian & Kyla, Lonely Lake bath

  • Green Journeys - TRENZ Rotorua

2018

  • Cyclone Gita, Europe & Fiji

  • Trips - Lyon, Limousin, Orkney, Manchester to Paris, Fiji villa

  • Cycling: Nantes to London

  • Resurgence - Caravan, Ollie and Kelly, Noel Edmonds, Chris & Ann, Sheila & Andrew

  • Green Journeys - TRENZ Dunedin

2017

  • Hawaii and Ernie starts

  • Trips - Kauai, Hawaii and Honolulu

  • Resurgence - Ernie, Chalet decks, outdoor kitchen, spa & sauna

  • Apartment - replace vanities

  • Green Journeys - TRENZ Auckland

  • Wellington with Peter & Kathy

2016

  • Canal du Midi and Whistler, bought Apartment

  • Trips - France - canal with J & Nick, Ariege and Lagrasse, Provence, Canada - Whistler and Sunshine coast

  • Walking - Travers-Sabine

  • Resurgence - painting and lighting

  • Apartment - saw in June and completed August

  • Green Journeys - TRENZ Rotorua

  • FOF - kiwi release

2015

  • Italy trip, Sam starts at Lodge

  • Trips - Italy - Amalfi to Puglia, UK, France

  • NZ Trips - North Island, Stewart Island

  • Cycling - Dordogne cycle

  • Resurgence - KP deck extension, Helipad, kea

  • Green Journeys - TRENZ Rotorua, TEC Dumedin

  • Evenlode Fair BBQ, Frayssinet Quiz

2014

  • Merveilla and bought bikes in France

  • Trips - Sailing in Scotland, Bikes in Marveilla

  • Walking - Hollyford with Meg, AT Inland

  • Cycling - Otago Rail Trail, Coppermine

  • Resurgence - KP Bathhouse, shade sails, kea

  • Green Journeys - TRENZ Auckland, TEC Hobbiton, Marlborough

  • Canyoning

2013

  • Forest 2 and Indonesia

  • Trips - Lombok, Bali and Flores

  • Resurgence - new logo, floods, kea

  • Green Journeys - TRENZ Auckland, NI trip, TEC Masterton

  • FOF - 2nd kiwi release

  • Caving

2012

  • Set up Green Gourmet with Meg

  • Trips - HKG, France Europcar, Sailing in Scotland, LAX, San Diego, San Juans and Vancouver

  • Resurgence - studio refurbishment, romantic platform, concrete cutter, kea arrive

  • Green Journeys - TRENZ Queenstown

  • Caving

2011

  • Joint 50th birthday celebrations

  • Trips - Tonga, Va’vau

  • NZ Trips - Methven ballooning, met up with Meg

  • Resurgence - orange track, big trees

2010

  • Europe Banana trip, 1st Kiwi release

  • Trips - Switzerland, Germany, Holland, UK, Spain, France, Australia

  • Resurgence - Carl starts, Remy and Ronan, Australia marketing trip, Skyline Garage, Gym and therapy room

  • FOF - Walk for Kiwis and Kiwi translocation

  • Dukan diet, Evenlode cake competition, world cup, Mill Hill memorial

2009

  • Sailing in Sweden and Scotland

  • Trips - UK, Lyon and Cantal, Sweden, Mill Hill, Orkneys, Oban

  • NZ trip - Pukawa, Zeelandia

  • Resurgence - KS bath house, studio shutters, chalet trees

  • Do up and sell Mill Hill, Blythe

2008

  • Beginning of long winter holidays

  • Trips - Vietnam, Liverpool, Sardinia, Corsica, Pyrenees, Quercy Blanc

  • Resurgence - Pool and landscaping, Des & Marilyn

2007

  • Built Kahurangi Point

  • NZ trip - Christchurch, Twizel, Taieri Gorge, Queenstown

  • Resurgence - KP Bush Lodge

  • Alan Ducasse

2006

  • Built the Bush Chalets

  • Trips - Paris, Soulemes to Grenoble, Brittany, Peak District

  • Resurgence - Bush Chalets

  • All Saints, M Pince, Smelly Cheese, Evenlode

2005

  • Built the Laundry building

  • Trips - Hong Kong

  • NZ Trips - Ecofest, North Island

  • Walking - AT Wilsons Guided with Chris and Ann

  • Resurgence - Laundry Building, link septics

  • Mike & Shelagh, Open Poly, Edmund Hillary

  • Sold King George Square

2004

  • Built two Bush Lodges

  • Trips - UK, France and Spain - CMAX tyres

  • Walking - Pyrenees

  • Resurgence - Lonely Lake and Kiwi Saddle

  • KGS with Big John, Chloe and J-B for Xmas, Evenlode- dratted 50th

2003

  • Set up The Resurgence

  • Trips - UK for New Year, then NZ, Sydney

  • NZ Trips - Auckland , Pukawa to Nelson

  • Walking - Tongariro, Queen Charlotte, Heaphy, Leslie Karamea

  • Resurgence - Purchase and build main lodge, open November

  • Forest 1, sell Okahu Street and Pukawa

2002

  • Couscous and walking the GR10

  • Trips - Umbria, Nyons, Spain, Corsica, Colorado for Christmas

  • Walking - GR10

  • Work - Schlumberger Sema

  • Couscous

  • J and Nick - driving fine, Kim and Mark, John and Caro, Chris and Ann, Dave and Jan, Carrie & Gerry, Tony & Kelley, Mum and Dad, Roland & Alison, John and Marnie

2001

  • Off to France - Auragne

  • Trips - NZ, UK, France - Annecy, Nice, Toulouse, Spain, Portugal, Morocco

  • Rene 1 and Rene 2, Monsieur Pince, Duck Course

  • John & Bonnie, J, Nick et al, Peter’s 40th, Tim’s walk, Dorothy for Christmas - frozen Canal du Midi

2000

  • 3 month break in Europe

  • Trips - Guatemala, Belize and Mexico, Europe - Evenlode, Spain, France, Snowdonia, Rome, Birmingham canals, Greece

  • Walking- Great Barrier, Lake Waikaremoana, Kepler, Rakiura

  • Cycling - Spanish Pyrenees, Perpignan to St Malo

  • Bay of Islands with Cliff and Brenda

1999

  • Millennium on Lake Atitlan with Jan and Dave

  • Trips - UK, France, Mexico City, Guatemala

  • Cycling - Normandy

  • Leave PA and join PwC

  • Jean, Roy and Dorothy - train and ferry - car towed, Stephen - sailing America’s Cup

  • Brigid’s 30th - with Kim and Mark, Hot Tub and lawn

1998

  • Bought Okahu Street

  • Trips - Australia - Home Hill

  • Walking - Tongariro, Milford and Routeburn, Siberia

  • Chris and Ann - borrow Harry

  • Pukawa - deck and hottub

  • Tongariro Crossing - call in Helicopter, Coast to Coast Challenge

1997

  • Spot! Working in Auckland and bought Encounter

  • Trips - Bali AGIFORS, Winter’s Park, Boston, New York

  • Datacom

  • Walking - Tongariro

  • Dorothy and Enid

  • Northland fishing, Gough Gough & Hamer

1996

  • Back to work - PA and Coopers & Lybrand

  • Trips - Queensland, Airlie Beach, Golden Bay, Sounds

  • Ponsonby, Larry and Harry

  • Walking - Tongariro Northern Circuit, Abel Tasman, Lake Angelus

  • Pukawa - Kitchen renovations and decks, working bee

  • Jean & Roy - leaky Freda

1995

  • South America

  • Trips - Bali, UK, Brazil, Paraguay, Argentina, Bolivia, Peru, Chile

  • NZ trips- South Island with Dorothy, Ni with Mike and Shelagh

  • Cycling - Dales and Lakes

  • Pukawa - pine tree mulching

1994

  • Bought Pukawa and got residency

  • Trips - Sydney, Spain, France, UK, Cebu, Denver, Nepal

  • Walking - Waikaremoana, Rockies, Himalayas

  • Cycling - Spain, Pyrenees to St Malo

  • Fine Sky - 7 trips to Malaysia

  • Freda, NZ residency, Dorothy in NZ for Christmas, Andy and Chris’s wedding

1993

  • New Zealand and Claude and Claudette

  • Trips - South Island, East Coast Australia, Rotorua, Cook islands, French Polynesia, Ruapehu, UK, France, Sri Lanka, Australia

  • Cycling - Manchester to Provence, Picton to Invercargill

  • Fine Sky - 7 trips to Malayisa

  • John & Bonnie, Josh & Yvonne and Roland and Alison’s weddings. Clare’s birthday on Sydney Harbour. Whitsundays.

1992

  • King George Square, Fine Sky and Travels

  • Trips - Philippines, UK, Palua Seribu, Italy & Spain, Java, Western Australia, South Australia to Darwin, Penang & Sumatra, Tasmania, Jervis Bay, Sydney

  • Walking - Overland and Frenchman’s Cap. Kakadu - Willie’s Walkabouts

  • Fine Sky - 7 trips to Malaysia

  • Tony and Kelley’s wedding. New Year in Idyllic farmhouse

1991

  • Quit jobs, sell house and set up Fine Sky

  • Trips - Kenya, Nepal, Beijing, Thailand

  • Walking - Himalayas

  • Fine Sky

  • Sandy the cat, J and Nick in HK, Resigned to be 40 party, Mum and Dad in China, Christmas carols, New Year in Hua Hin

  • Clare - 5 trips to Malaysia, 4 trips to Indonesia, 2 trips to Brunei plus London and Thailand

  • Peter - UK for LHR slots, Singapore and Tokyo

1990

  • Working in HK

  • Trips - Beaune, Australia, Bali, Japan, Shanghai to Hangzhou, North East Thailand

  • Geoff & Mary wedding, Nikko, Jenny, Sue and Terry on the Grand Canal, AGIFORS Macau

  • Clare - 3 trips to Malaysia, 6 trips to Indonesia, 2 trips to Monarch plus Bangkok and Manila

  • Peter - Manila, US/Belgium, Taiwan, Macau, Paris

1989

  • Bought 216 Seabee

  • Trips - Kota Kinabulu, Sumatra, Ottowa, Paris for New Year

  • Mum and Dad in HK, Aida

  • Clare - 8 trips to Malaysia, 5 trips to Indonesia plus Bahrein and Brunei

  • Peter - AGIFORS in Denmark and slots in Dingapore

1988

  • Bought 14C Glamour, started with Cathay Pacific

  • Trips - Washington, Philippines - 1000 Islands, London, Guilin, Kunming

  • Clare - 5 trips to Malaysia

  • Peter - B747-400 trip to London

1987

  • Move to Hong Kong - 16E Sunrise

  • Trips - France, Brazil, Hong Kong, Washington

  • Freddy 2, Boat party, Hurricane, Manaus

  • Cycling - Josselin, Portsmouth, Chilterns

  • Clare - 8 trips to Hong Kong, Rio AGIFORS

  • Peter - contracting job in Washington

1986

  • Visit Hong Kong and SE Asia

  • Trips - France Vichy and Poujouls, Bangkok, Malaysia, Singapore and Hong Kong, China

  • Cycling - Brighton

  • J & Nick’s wedding, camping in the Lakes

  • Clare - 3 trips to HK

1985

  • Clare joins SIA

  • Trips - France with Freddy 1

  • Aviemore, Blyth, Bradford on Avon

  • Sold Mini

1984

  • Bought Cent Cinq

  • Trips - Cherbourg, Norway

  • Blyth for Easter, Eva and Simon’s wedding - firework, River Fiesta 3, Dartmoor for Christmas with Tony, Woolacombe for New year

  • Freddy 1

1983

  • Starting going out and first jobs

  • Trips - Normandy, Beachy Head

  • Noble’s Bar, Hitchin,

  • Jobs - PE Information Systems, BA

  • Mini, Cyril and Thames Ditton

  • South Wales for New Year

1982

  • Meet at Sussex University

  • Graduate from Liverpool and Bristol Universities

  • Chris & Ann and Stephen & Catherine’s weddings