I have been slack

I have very slack , life has been packed in , i have been house/dog sitting this month , still dealing with this nerve problem in lower arm / work has been a bit of night mare at the moment / and my David is working night shift and is heading for 10 days straight in a row . Also i am doing more and more cycling and kayaking - Hooray ! And the running is great , off to Rotoura this weekend so i will have a long running the redwoods .

Queen Birthday weekend

We had a have a great weekend in and around Te Kuiti on Queens birthday. I want to show David there i was from. The largest feature was going Black water rafting , it was 10:30am and it was no more than 14 degrees above ground. I did get a great shot of me exiting the cave (left) .

Also I took David to met my very good friends of Tim and Grover in Hamilton which is my old haunt from my uni days. Lastly we spent time on Monty's farm (my mum's boyfriend) it was a beautiful place with wood pigeons in the garden and rolling green hills in the background until the eye could see .

mocaving photos here: http://www.flickr.com/photos/clairemoava/sets/72157600331636628/

i am back

i am back , i am typing with one and three fingers which is good enough too get back into blogging .

I have experienced so many things in the last afew months with my wrist injury; mountain of frustration an sea of pain . I think i spend all of February under a cloud of some sort of drug. But that was past and today is today .

Well to today for the first time i went for a kind-of kayak and MTB cycle (this rose of the fact i couldn't run today has twigged my knee in a silly manner putting away food shopping on Friday night). My lovely David was my concrete companion thoughtout my activites . The MTB went very well and kayaking was paddle for 8 to 10 mins and then a rest ....its a start :)

Dyslexia Awareness Week

http://www.dyslexiafoundation.org.nz/dyslexiaweek/

The Dyslexia Foundation of NZ is very pleased to announce NZ's first-ever national Dyslexia Awareness Week. 23th -29th April
and http://www.dyslexiafoundation.org.nz/dyslexiaweek/pdf/pressarticle.pdf

and i havent been blogging but i am down to still one handed typing , promise I'll be back with tales of casts , pin removals, walking in the wineries drinking wine before 11am maybe a meantion Gutbuster too x

the man & post op

Well, it's been a while , but for a good reason. Firstly i have a wonderful boyfriend to my right . Funnily enough i found him on the Internet dating site something i thought i wouldnt do, but i have decided this is a year of difference, new things , new adventures. He's funny , he listens , he's smart and loving what more could a girl ask for ?

2ndly is this wrist operation, i have been siting here for four days post op now, the op still feeling like my head is full of cottonwool and solid objects are slightly marsh mellow'ïe . I went in last Tuesday morning putting on a brave front, as from the previous week basically i had a stream of people telling operation disaster stories ... this wasnt great my for fragile hospital head space.

But i did have the best doctor in this part of the country. Robert (doctor) came in to examine me before the operation and had decided once again to chance the operation for the 4th time, much to my dismay, again not helping my hospital head space. Finally however the operation was lot more complex than first thought but has worked out very well in the end. So what happened? well in a nut shell the small piece of broken bone still had small pieces of ligament and tendon still attached. So he removed the bone, reattached the pieces, took the cartalidge that was now loose, and grafted it back to my wrist bone and wired the whole thing back together again. Cool or what!!!!. The up shot of all of this is, that I am now in a cast upto my shoulder for 4 weeks with more to come. This does sadly meen I will be of my bike for a little longer than expected, but when I return I will be bigger better and badder than before which is great news!. Nurse 'dave' has been doing a good job keeping me fed, clean,watered and saine which is always a bonus and has been there for me during those "heavy lettuce" days { thanks Mr tranadol } .

Hawkes Bay WineO weekend

I love summer has its the time of sun and fun . Well another weekend away with David , Justin , Gordon , Mr_Waine and Mr_Waine(the man chasing into a winery) and my self of course . This weekend was the reactionment of weekend me , Justin and Mr_Waine expenerince 4 years ago and we decided to get afew new ringins for the festives.

There were 9 wineries on Saturday...

Me, David and Gordon went to Gannets on Sunday , i think we were all feeling a wee bit seedy

Also for some more excitment we were spirit cars ! David found a flyer for these at one of wineries on Sunday . So on Monday before it got too hot me David , Gordon went to track . We discovered that my David was a natural on the circuit.

Lastly as we are people of history , so we went to the local museum about Napier. I was blown away with the actually damage of the 1930's earthquake . So that is must-go if your in Napier.

Turangi weekend

Another weekend , another adventure afoot for this girl .

The weekend in question was the 13/14th Jan . The plan was to do a navigation course at OPC at National Park and then spent some time with Grover (my flatmate of many years ago) and his girlfriend & parents.

Well i decided to drive up on the Saturday morning like early early , getting up at 4am, it was worth getting up early early has the road were clear and the sunrise was simply beautiful with dusty pinks and roving italics.

The navigation course was great there were four of us so we got a lot of individual attention. I must admit of was pretty tired so taking things in was a little hard. But the main things i learnt were how anyways know where north is use a bearing (i really like this means of getting from point A to point B) , calculating time for route choice. We did this afternoon practice , it rained the compete time.... 4.5 hours worth . My feet got so wet they were wrinkled when i removed them from my shoes. Well worth the $160 course fee.

When what i was really looking forward too seeing the "Grover"clan it was nice and relaxing , with good food , and good company. I got there a little late, but it wasn't a problem . We had a beautiful dinner only mom's have the skill to made: with gravy and peas ummm .

The "plan" was to going the 42 transverse the next day but with BIG downpour the day before it was abit So me and Grover set off to do some more low key MTB like Tree trunk gorge track which is a big thumbs up in the Kennett's MTB. The conditions won - both Grover and i were soaked to the bone as there was a lot over grown 4WD tracks that face/ chest. the trees that lined these were water heavy .... wak , branch in face ... hit , mouth full of strange leaves.

The wonderful end to this weekend was Liam cooking dinner for me David and Corrine. His famous roast pork and some wonderful wheat-free muffins.