Stuff That We're Up To
14 May 2005 
It’s been a couple of years since our last
update, but not an awful lot has changed in that time so the news below is
generally pretty much up to date.
Big news though is that I (Danny) have a new job. Wattie’s
made me an offer to return that I just couldn’t refuse, and so after 4 years at
Pan Pac, and 5 years away from Wattie’s
(apart from a short contract), I’m back in the corporate fold as Packaging
Development Manager. Jo still
works at Wattie’s, as one of a handful of Product Development Managers, so
together we are doing good things to promote inter-departmental
communication! Site of the month: Everyone
with a high-speed internet connection (or else a lot of patience) needs to go
to the Beanman web site.
5 April 2003 Just a quick wee update on what we've been up to for the last few months. New Years was spent canoeing on the Whanganui River with Stephen & Ceridwen which was a blast. But then the remainder of the summer has been taken up with house painting, so unfortunately no major expeditions into the hills. But we have taken the time to head down towards Wellington for a couple of weddings lately: Ross & Shaz, and Mary & Vaughan. Painting has almost ceased for the summer, so we'll be making up for lost time over winter - have paid for our Ruapehu season passes already! The 10 days over Easter/Anzac will be spend down in Otago, mainly for a wedding but also for a general tiki tour around - we may get to climb the Tasman glacier yet!
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December 2002
It has been a while since we last updated our web site....... so as 2002 comes
to an end we thought we should put some highlights together. I am taking the
initiative to learn how to do this web site thing so if it doesn't look so
good, I hope to get better next time......lets hope the frequency of updates
increases in 2003. I hope you all have a great Christmas & New Year - Jo.
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10 October 2001 Here's is the
long-overdue update on what Jo & I have been up to over the last five
months or so. Our web site still contains reasonably updated stuff
- it's now been moved to: http://users.actrix.co.nz/dannyandjo/
but the old address will get redirected for a while... [more]
2 October 2001 Finally got around to adding some pictures from our ski holiday last month. This is an interim version only with a few pics as we though we'd better get something out. Stay tuned for the final, more complete account of our holiday soon... [more]
26 August
2001
Here we are nearing the end of our third month in our new house - time is going
so fast!! I have been in my new job at Pan
Pac for five weeks now, and really enjoying it so far. And at the end
of next week we are off down south with Bruce
& Janet for a week of skiing - flying from Napier to Christchurch, having a night at the old haunts,
then hiring a 4WD and hooning to Mt Hutt,
Wanaka, Queenstown, everywhere in between,
and then back! Stay tuned, as we will be publishing an account of our
exploits here soon after. (PS: At popular request from various
geographically-challenged friends, here is a map of
NZ).
4 July 2001 Danny's contract at HWA runs out at the end of next week, and he has just accepted a job as a Production/Systems Engineer in the Pulp Division of Pan Pac Forest Products. Initially to be managing the implementation of a new MIS system, as well as general production engineering stuff like process development and optimisation. Time to dredge my brain for everything I once knew about programming, unit operations, and mass and energy balances!
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May 2001
Well, here we are in sunny (?) Hawkes Bay, having
recently (two months ago now!) arrived back from our year in Christchurch.
While our time in Christchurch was very interesting and enjoyable, it's still
great to be back.... [more]
6 February 2001 Hi All, just a quick e-mail to let you know that Danny and I are on the move again. We are off back to Hawke's Bay where I have accepted a Product Development job still within Heinz Watties developing products for the Good Taste Company (our Fresh Soups and Sauces brand). Danny has resigned from Macpac to spend some time being a kept man, although so far he has three offers for apple picking. [Aahhh... sunshine, fresh air, exercise, low-stress, Swedish backpackers.... lovely!!]. I leave Christchurch on the 24 Feb and Danny a week later (it's Danny's turn to deal with the movers!) So far we have no where to live but will let you know when we do. For now we now spending our last weeks here doing all those things still on our must do list! This weekend it the Marlborough Food & Wine festival. For those of you in the Bay - see you soon.
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January 2001
Jo and Danny's Excellent Adventure. Our summer
holiday started on the Friday before Christmas, when we packed up the Toyota
and headed south to Dunedin. We spent the weekend with Jo's parents,
caught up with friends, ate Christmas dinner, and late on Monday we headed
south to Invercargill. We found that there was no shortage of motel
accommodation, either because it was Christmas day or because it was Invercargill,
so we got a nice room for what was to be our last night of relative comfort for
nearly two weeks... [more]
6 November 2000 Sorry for the lack of interesting updates over the last few weeks, but we are both horrendously busy at the moment and can't seem to find the time to devote to our wee web site. We are both very busy - Jo is preparing hard for a work trip to Australia, and I am studying hard for my last exam of the year (Graduate Marketing Policy) for my DipBusAdmin(Marketing). Assuming I pass (which at the moment is a fairly even call!) I will be exactly halfway through: four papers down and four to go!! After this Friday we'll try hard to get the web site properly updated!!
7 October 2000 Well here we are still in Christchurch. I know that's not as exciting an introduction as some we've seen lately, but it's hard to beat introductions like this: "We are still in the land of Inca Kola, unfortunately. The peasants are revolting in Bolivia and are blocking all the roads. The only way in or out is to fly to/from La Paz, which is not really that good as you are essentially stuck there. Fingers crossed the police will shot them all and we can keep travelling." (Ruth, 5 Oct).... [more]
7 July 2000 Yes, yes, shock-horror I'm actually getting around to emailing people! Now pick yourselves up off the floor. I guess it's been at least 3 months since the last DanMail, so no doubt there's been some interesting news in that time.... [more]
6 April 2000 I am now officially a
man of leisure (well for a few days anyway). I finished up at Wattie's
yesterday, and am now a fully-qualified house-husband. This will no doubt
be the last update to this while we are living in Napier; the next time we make
any changes we will be in the South Island!! (see photo at left, taken at
Nelson Lakes). I am at home for a couple of days doing house-husbandly
things such as defrosting the old fridge/freezer in the garage (that we use
exclusively for beer and burger patties), purging the LPG bottle, cleaning the
oven and BBQ (see picture at right), and of course updating our web site.
I head down to Wellington tomorrow (Friday) and then catch the Lynx to Picton
on Saturday morning. Jo is following the next week. So I get to go
flat-hunting in Chch and Jo gets to organise the movers and clean the
house. Sounds like a fair trade to me! I start work at Macpac on
Monday 10 April, and Jo has the next week off and starts back at Hornby after
Easter. If we forget to let anyone know our new address etc then please
let us know! Cheerio for now!
15 March 2000 We are back at
work, we are fit and tanned, and we are MARRIED!!
Check out this page of photos for a few select snaps of the day.
Also, we are about to move to Christchurch!!
I have a job as Manufacturing Engineer at Macpac
Wilderness Equipment Ltd, and Jo is either going to get a transfer to the Wattie's plant in Hornby, or is going to be
a kept woman and/or ski bum (I'm jealous). I finish up at Wattie's on 5
April, and Jo finishes at the end of the following week.
15 Feb 2000 Our big news for this week is that this is
our last week at work!! Then we're off on holiday for three weeks!!
First we are off to Dunedin
(where we are getting married), then we will spend the next few days travelling
up through Akaroa, Christchurch,
and Hanmer
Springs, through to Marahau.
Then follows a week tramping, kayaking, and relaxing in and around the Abel Tasman
National Park. Then we will travel back through Nelson and Wellington,
and back to Napier. Very exciting!! So stay tuned - no doubt there
will be more to tell, and perhaps pictures to show, upon our return. And
by the way, don't think about burgling our house while we're away, coz it's
being looked after!
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