Have been spending this week at the Christchurch Convention Centre as part of CORE Education’s Ulearn08 conference. 1,800 educators from around New Zealand, Australia and around the world have gathered here to hear some amazing keynote speakers and to share their experiences of technology and education.
For CORE staff, even thought it is an extremely [...]
Have been spending the week at the Tertiary Education Management Conference based at the Christchurch Convention Centre. It has been organised by the Aotearoa Branch of ATEM (for which I am the Branch President) and TEFMA, the Facilities Management Association. It has been an enjoyable conference and good to see everything coming together after 2 [...]
Was reading friend Ruth’s blog and noticed this post. I saw it on the Yahoo website last week and meant to mention it then, but her blog has spurred me on to write about it.
QV (Quotable Valuations) hold all sorts of information about house prices, sales in your area, property statistics etc, and with the [...]
Tags: free valuation, houses, QV
This morning Thomas performed at the local fete with the Windsor School Kapa Haka group. It was a bit grey and damp underfoot, so the boys especially were a bit chily with bare chests and no shoes, but they all had a great time and did really well. Thomas is really enjoying the Maori culture [...]
For once Howard and I managed a night out together when we were guests at the Canterbury Champions (Business) Awards, held at the Christchurch Convention Centre.
The event is the largest business awards event in New Zealand with about 1,200 guests
The Champion Canterbury Awards are designed to celebrate business excellence, passion and success recognising the contribution [...]
Tags: Canterbury, Champions
Regular readers of my blog (if there are such a thing) will know that each year I comment on the arrival of the Godwits, which to Cantabrians signals the start of Spring. They sneaked in early before the usual Council patrols had started and surprised everyone.
The Eastern Bar-tailed Godwit (Limosa lapponica baueri) arrives in New [...]
Tags: Christchurch, Godwits, Spring
We are just back from a lovely weekend in Twizel. We have one of the original houses in the township, built in 1968 when the whole town was developed to house the workers on the Upper Waitaki Hydro Power scheme, which ran from 1968 to 1986.
The town is located in the beautiful MacKenzie Country, and [...]
Tags: Mackenzie country, Twizel
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