The Old Town Hall Tea Room Urenui

 

 Mad Hatters Tea Party

South Island Road Trip

 

Thomas Hanmer - Surveyor

WWII Exhibit Omaka Aviation Heritage Centre

On board Aratere

Queing for the ferry

Weta Workshops

Weta Workshops

Weta Workshops

ANZAC Sketching

 Being ANZAC weekend it was appropriate to draw a related sketch

Liardet Street Projects

 The foodcarts in the Liardet Street Projects are humming.  A marvelous place to sketch, especially when Ricardo of Chiwi Catering kindly shouted us two rounds of delicious Chilean wedges.

Car Rally

 Proud owner, George with his 1928 Studebaker President.  He got married in it.

Below, Neville's beautifully restored Rolls Royce Phantom - only warranted the week before.

As part of its pedigree, a prior owner Grandma Brown came 5th in the 1957 10,000km Ampol Trial around Australia

The car competed three years running.

In the 1958 Ampol Trial, it experienced a rare mechanical failure - a piston burned out. The beautiful old engine ran very roughly on only five cylinders, and Granny's son didn’t like the vibrations running through the whole car. So, stopping in a small village in South Australia, he dropped the sump and removed the offending piston and connecting rod. Knowing the engine would then be seriously out of balance and would probably shake itself to pieces, he cut a piece from a farmer’s discarded ploughshare and taking a good look at the crankshaft, welded the piece onto the shaft to act as a balance weight. He then replaced the sump and pressed the starter. The old Rolls was back to its smooth self again - down on power but no vibrations!

I had a fraction of a second's fame on Seven Sharp just after the rally - me sketching, and a picture of my best side (my back).

Pekaren Pizza Bell Block

 

Rusting Trucks

 Charlie restoring Toyota Landcruiser - one of the sources

View in 2010 of rusting Fordson Thames Flatbed

Exactly 10 years later 2021 the same truck slumping from the onset of rust

Hurworth Cottage

Sketch 2021

Sketch 2010 

Ducks and Chooks

 

Art Deco House

 

Classic Motorcycle Show

 New Plymouth Classic Motorcycle Show

Peter's 1960 BSA 650cc was just asking to be sketched

HMNZS Aotearoa

 Our new ship is now in its home of Port Taranaki - The HMNZS Aotearoa

Taranaki Speedway

 These proudly displayed Taranaki Speedway midgets were well attended.  Apparently pre 70's the Speedway was the place to go along with the movies.

South Island Grand Tour - Part 2

 

South Island Grand Tour - Part 1

 March South Island Grand Tour

Fairlie good pies here

Clay Cliffs

Bendigo gold mining town remnants

Emma busking - Cromwell

Mitre Peak

Arrowtown main street

Mrs Woolly's General Store Glenorchy

Lady Bowen Milford Sound

Patea Explorer Doubtful Sound

Inside the camper