Colin Doncaster

Tag: nz

Guy Fawkes

An older video from a few months ago, shot with my HF10.

Changes…

I’ve packed in writing my website by hand and reverted back to the bog simple Word Press – this new fan-dangled version is pretty slick and as I’d prefer to work on content then the ‘back end’ as they say, I’m happy to be in a simple CMS land.  There’s some great themes available also – so [...]

Nom nom and house cleaning…

We’re off to a foodie night tomorrow at a local eatery called Elements Cafe in Lyall Bay.  A while ago I noticed that they were holding Slow Food demonstration nights and inquired but it’s taken a few months to follow up – I’m not too sure if it’s still related to Slow Food or just [...]

Move, Reinvent and Live…

We’ve become masters of moving, in the wake of the burglary we quickly decided that we didn’t feel comfortable in the house we were in and hit the market. We landed a new house on day one, back on the water and closer to friends. I’ll post pictures soon enough.As with every major event you [...]

Feeling a bit violated….

Our house was broken into yesterday, in broad daylight. Laptop, cameras and other gear, all 300 of my DVD’s and various other things are now no longer ours. All materialistic, everyone is safe, but now we’re both feeling rather dissilusioned and violated. It was as if we were in a movie, everything thrown about the [...]

Self Publishing and Bruce…

Soon I will be gripping a throttle and motoring through town on my very own motorcycle. Over the last few weeks I took a basic handling course ( required in NZ but also very helpful to build my confidence handling a bike ), studied the road code, nailed the written test to acquire a learners [...]