March 26th - April 8th
Well, it came time to leave Otaki. Sniff. Primarily because a) we still wanted to see some more of the North Island, and b) because we had booked, several weeks earlier, with the host we were to be visiting.
So, off to Feilding! We had been warned, but had laughed off, its oddness. Not the best of places - it's quite pretty, however, and we're not sure why, 'Friendly Feilding' made Si and I quite aggro within our first coupla days, and also, every single dog we came across was a slathering, homicidal maniac - even the Labradors!
Anyway, we were there to spend time with John and Allison, an interesting couple. John works from home and is an 'art specialist' - he's also got NZ's best collection of original printing presses and type, and a business called Homeprint. We got to use a press that's 180 years old! We also got to make some cool prints using various types, as well as some lino cuts too.
This was the first time during our trip that Si and I spent time apart. I had decided it would be fun to go woth John to teach bookbinding to kids at the local country school - only 30 in total, in 2 classes, so very different to what I'd seen before. And I've generally eschewed kids, and have never bound books before, but still, it was great fun, and the kids were lovely!
Simon, however, was not too interested, and so stayed at the house assembling small yellow presses, doing garden work, sorting type (soul destroying), and whatever other odds and ends were around.
During the weekend, we were to help Allison with her organic garden, but since she'd been away the first weekend Sat, and we were away the second weekend...well, yes :)
We also got to meet 2 of their 3 sons, who're based in Palmerston North (also yuck). However, fascinating people - the boys have a company, Unlimited Realities, which does bleeding edge software stuff - in fact, they're responsible for the coding behind Dell's about-to-be-released touchscreen desktop! Very, very, very cool...
Happily, however, our time in Feilding soon came to an end (we just don't like the area), and we left having met some interesting peeps, and having had quite a lot of fun being creative (see the picasa album for our prints)
Well, it came time to leave Otaki. Sniff. Primarily because a) we still wanted to see some more of the North Island, and b) because we had booked, several weeks earlier, with the host we were to be visiting.
So, off to Feilding! We had been warned, but had laughed off, its oddness. Not the best of places - it's quite pretty, however, and we're not sure why, 'Friendly Feilding' made Si and I quite aggro within our first coupla days, and also, every single dog we came across was a slathering, homicidal maniac - even the Labradors!
Anyway, we were there to spend time with John and Allison, an interesting couple. John works from home and is an 'art specialist' - he's also got NZ's best collection of original printing presses and type, and a business called Homeprint. We got to use a press that's 180 years old! We also got to make some cool prints using various types, as well as some lino cuts too.
This was the first time during our trip that Si and I spent time apart. I had decided it would be fun to go woth John to teach bookbinding to kids at the local country school - only 30 in total, in 2 classes, so very different to what I'd seen before. And I've generally eschewed kids, and have never bound books before, but still, it was great fun, and the kids were lovely!
Simon, however, was not too interested, and so stayed at the house assembling small yellow presses, doing garden work, sorting type (soul destroying), and whatever other odds and ends were around.
During the weekend, we were to help Allison with her organic garden, but since she'd been away the first weekend Sat, and we were away the second weekend...well, yes :)
We also got to meet 2 of their 3 sons, who're based in Palmerston North (also yuck). However, fascinating people - the boys have a company, Unlimited Realities, which does bleeding edge software stuff - in fact, they're responsible for the coding behind Dell's about-to-be-released touchscreen desktop! Very, very, very cool...
Happily, however, our time in Feilding soon came to an end (we just don't like the area), and we left having met some interesting peeps, and having had quite a lot of fun being creative (see the picasa album for our prints)
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