Monday, December 27, 2004


Happy Holidays from Bend. It's probably the last white Christmas we will see for a few years! Posted by Hello

Monday, December 20, 2004

A Few Quotes About New Zealand

If it would not look too much like showing off, I would tell the reader where New Zealand is." ....... Mark Twain 1897

When asked his opinion of New Zealand: "I find it hard to say, because when I was there it seemed to be shut." ....... Sir Clement Freud 1978

"A country of inveterate, backwoods, thick-headed, egotistic philistines" ....... Vladimir Ilyich Lenin 1909

When George Bernard Shaw visited New Zealand a reporter asked him his impression of the place and, after a pause, Shaw is said to have replied: "Altogether too many sheep" ....... George Bernard Shaw 1934