After such an amazing year it seems like a good idea to list some of the great achievements that both Mel and I have aspired to and realised. We started the year with lots of dreams, here is a list of all our memorable moments - 52 of them, 1 a week for the whole year! :
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| Wedding Day 1st September |
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| Steve Irwin's Zoo |
- Getting Married in Brisbane Botanic Gardens
- Celebrating our marriage with all of our nearest in my home county of Norfolk
- Getting over my fear of flying thanks to my work with Juice DBT
- Learned how to brew my own ale
- Going to Glastonbury’s 40th birthday party
- Directing ‘Blood Brothers’ with the brilliant Foundation group of 2010 at Sage
- Going to a traditional Scottish wedding in Perth (Mandy and Ally)
- Cycling round the entire north island of New Zealand
- Cuddling ‘Crumpet’ the Koala in Brisbane
- Going to Steve Irwin’s Zoo
- Enjoying a drink with my best mate Tim Garland on my wedding day
- Having the guts to follow our dreams
- Watching Mel fly in a Tiger Moth by-plane over Surfers Paradise
- Climbing to the top of Mount Warning to see the sunrise
- Taking the 7 km cable car over Hong Kong
- Making new friends in New Zealand and seeing Savannah again in Australia
- Watching Norwich City win the League 1 title
- Hiking over the Tongariro Crossing
- Couchsurfing, WWOOFing and Warmshowering with inspirational people
- Staying with bee keepers and learning a little about the craft
- Staying on a deer farm and learning a little about velvet
- Mel learned to knit brilliant things for her husband
- Hand fed kangaroos and wallabies
- Kept up with this blog
- Saw dolphins up close and personal
- Learned lots of new ways to cook with lovely organic produce
- Leaned how to build a chicken mansion
- Appearing naked on stage in ‘Skitzy’ at the People’s Theatre
- Receiving the award and gifts for being officially the most inspirational teacher at Sage
- Learning how to use a chain-saw
- Seeing a geyser and other thermal attractions at Rotorua
- Meeting a long lost relative in New Zealand
- Being made a chief and doing a formal greeting at a Maori Marai in Rotorua
- Cooking food in a ‘Hangi’ (using the natural thermal heat of the earth)
- Staying on a farm which is also the home of some Kuni-Kuni pigs
- Doing a charity fun-run in Kahoe with Mel finishing 2nd in the women’s section
- Visiting ‘Tanemahuta’, the oldest living Kauri tree in New Zealand
- Touring the parliament buildings in Wellington, New Zealand
- Learned some Dutch in order to be able to communicate with Millhouse when we meet again
- Qualifying as a teacher
- Celebrating Christmas in the sun in Nelson, New Zealand
- Hiking over one of the worlds youngest volcanoes, Rangitoto island, New Zealand (600 years old)
- Driving the ‘Forgotten Highway’, possibly the greatest road to drive in the world
- Seeing sunset and sunrise at Byron Bay, New South Wales
- Having my family see me playing the leading man in ‘Calamity Jane’ on the national tour
- Staying on the largest campsite in the southern hemisphere
- Watching humpback whales migrating north at Byron Bay in Australia
- Tim-Tam slamming on a regular basis
- Night Kayaking through the Bay of Islands, New Zealand
- Celebrating Sinter Klaas with our new Dutch friend, Viola in Gisborne, New Zealand
- Teaching my family how to Skype
- Staying happily married and still on honeymoon after four months – and counting!
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| Hogmanay Kiwi Style! Happy New Year for 2011 |
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