Thursday, 21 October 2010

Flying to see great grand parents in Korea


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Sunny took me and the twins to see their great grand parents in Boryeong. Grandma is ninety years old and grandfather is two years younger. The boys fell asleep in the car on the way to the hospital so we wheeled grand ma out to the car to see the lads spread out across the back seat of the car with Sunnys father looking after them.
It was great to see them and have a bit of time together.
Sunnys grand father looks like a character and walks around with a packet of cigarettes in his pocket and has a smoke with his mate in a wheelchair also in the hospital.

Lets go Korea 2010





Ski Trip NZ - 20 years between pics




Friday, 1 October 2010

Waterloo Wind Farm

I was fortunate enough to visit te Waterloo wind farm owned and operated by Roaring 40's located in the Clare valley north of Adelaide. The site has 37 x V90-3 MW turbines and will provide enough power for 48,000 homes. It is an impressive wind farm built on two ridge lines a larger Southern ridge and a Northern ridge line. The pictures of me were take on top of the turbine at a height of over 85 metres above ground and give some perspective of the spectacular views. One of the nice parts of the job!





Update from Singers - a bad week for sedgeway

It is probably due be the hot steamy weather and the massive late morning downpours that hurtle over sized rain globules to the ground with thunder and lightning that has everyone on edge lately.
We are experiencing some unusual events and not just from the skies;

Take Sedgeway for example, you know the two wheel stand on device that is the so called leader in personal green transport. It was a bad week for Sedgeway the new owner of the company drove his Sedgeway over a cliff but was described in his obituary as a true visionary, unfortunately unable to see this particular hazard. So too a colleague of mine took his family to Sentosa for a Sedgeway tour and found himself pile driven into the roadway and came to work with cuts and bruises all over his face and hands.

The Aussie rules grand final was drawn last week and the whole thing will be repeated this week. Lets hope they get it right this time and St Kilda show the Magpies how to play footy.
I was in Madrid during the final and had the chance to walk around the old part of the city and could not pass by the jambon museum. It's a curious place near Sol square where the decor on the walls and ceiling features thousands of hams. On one side of the place is a butchery and the other side is a bar service beers and ham in various shapes and sizes. I enjoyed a beer and jambon roll for 2 euro before heading back to the Eurostars hotel by metro.







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