| N O R T H S T R E A M - pointers & setters - Hunting - Fishing - Diving |
| Ben in the back has resigned and looking forward to getting wet. Simon is still trying to keep the ship on course... |
| Ben slowly reappearing, frighteningly resembling the Loch Ness monster. Simon is nowhere to be seen... yet.. |
| Poster-boy Aidan Ho shaking his head over the kayaking amateurs, before paddling out in the rolling swells, fantasising of wet sea nymphs and lost Swedish mermaids.... |
| Back at the HQ, poor old Frankie Oliver had to get straight into kitchen duties. Here in the flames with some Middle Eastern flavoured quail - shot by Craig & yours faithfully last hunting season. |
| Scandinavia was well represented that evening in the New Zealand back-blocks |
| It turned out a beautiful night in good company! Lucky for the possums in the trees around us we had run out of ammo that morning.. Ben, Craig & Chris still in good shape, while Simon also had appeared from one wet element, joining another! |
| That quail must be tasty... but Randhir still manages to smile.. |
| The band is getting comfortable, before Eye of the Tiger, some brilliant Ben Harper and numerous versions of Wonderwall fronted by Simon Gallagher & The Chrissy Spurs! |
| PS. The Pigs Head Award for biggest bruise on his arm/shoulder went to our snooker master Mr Tansley Senior. He did eventually work out the path of the shotgun pellets and mathematically joined them with the clay clad birds! (I think he also concluded that the clays we found whole afterwards, with a single pellet through them, were all his.) |
| Birthday-boy Ben got a beautiful pancake as soon as we passed midnight, then stole the show until the small hours of the morning with his guitarra, while Simon Garfunkel became a new dad less than 24 hrs later. (Well done Laura for being such a good girl holding on! Who said pelvic floor muscle exercise doesn't work?!) The young hoon started showing off his dance moves, while Randhir picked up the Hindu rap (those pics have been sensured!) . |