From:   mrsbsrooma11 | Sent: 19/01/2008 10:47 p.m. |
| Kingi has returned home after a 4000 km drive from Auckland to Wanaka. His road trip took in Wanaka where he enjoyed kite skiing, to visiting the towns where his friends were born, lived or had family members. He brought a huge quartz home and it looked like it had melted aluminium in it. Anyone know what it is? (Probably sheet mica) Hello to Rona. Well done on seeing the world. She travelled to Melbourne with her daughter Terri and met her sisters Laura and Joey on a pilgrimage to meet their brother Terry. Back in NZ their eldest brother Dennis stayed home to look after his mokos. Here is a part of her email: We had a great time with Terry and his family. As per usual Xmas was a time of over indulgence in food, drink and shopping!! But oh it was a lot of fun. The weather was extremely kind to us when we were there. It began with wind and rain when we arrived, and gradually got hotter by the day, and when we left it was 40 degrees - getting back to Wellington with a temperature of 15/16. A big difference. Melbourne is a very pretty city and it's going to take at least another 3-4 visits before I see all I want to see there. It felt just like home. Truly. Laura's youngest daughter is working in Canada. Mount Louise?? and our next adventure (next year we are hoping) is a visit to see her. That's the plan at the moment, but as we all know things happen - not all of them good, but life is for living and we plan to do just that! As long as our finances live up to what we want to do. Rona." Joining us for New Year's Eve were Robyn and Keith who were having a stopover with us. Keith was one of New Zealand's scientists who played a part in the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize: This year's Nobel Peace Prize goes to the IPCC and Al Gore. The Royal Society of New Zealand would like to congratulate the many New Zealand researchers who have contributed to the work of the IPCC. The prize was awarded "for their efforts to build up and disseminate greater knowledge about man-made climate change, and to lay the foundations for the measures that are needed to counteract such change". Our researchers have been involved from the start of the IPCC process, and there's quite a few of them, which indicates that our influence is disproportionate to our size. The complete list (runs) [includes]: Keith Lassey, NIWA, Wellington In Upland, Sherrie is settling in to begin work on her Masters. I offer my sincere congratulations to her on gaining her Bachelor's. Sherrie, along with Roger, Rangi and Terra have just returned from the long haul drive from Oregon where they met their daughter's families. Margret |
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