[dilanium]

I've heard how the outdoors is a major part of life in NZ, so I'm wondering how people use this to their advantage. What do you like to do?

I figured I would open this up to most everyday recreational activities in NZ regardless of whether you consider it outdoorsy.

And since we're including everything in NZ we should include everyone else regardless of where you are!

[dilanium]

I'm a big fan of going for walks in the local parks and I enjoy drawing and painting.

I also watch TV, surf the internet (right now I'm neurotically checking my email...), and occasionally play video games.

[steviec]

We enjoy jumping in the car with the map,stove,flask,frying pan and some sausages and going to nice parks and reserves so the girls can have a good run around.

Also love biking,walking. Things that involve the kids.

Don't get much me time,when i do eventually i would love to join a gym again and do some fitness classes.
Tracy,

[Moorf]

We love to walk with the dogs - often round lakes and rivers as they love to swim :) Often found up a dust track somewhere exploring. Love botanical gardens and museums, craft markets and finding new cafes/restaurants/wineries.

LOVE gardening although since moving to this place we've spent more time sorting it all out instead of pottering - will come good eventually.

Indoors we're both usually on the laptops - I love to research, write and read, Woz is a "Stumbler" :D

Don't watch much TV, although have our fav's (mine - Time Team on Sundays :D and, of course, Corrie :o and any "real crime" doco)

[thezorbster]

Don't watch much TV, although have our fav's (mine - Time Team on Sundays :D and, of course, Corrie :o and any "real crime" doco)

Ooh, Is Time Team on over here? I was only saying last weekend that normally in Jan/Feb we'd be watching Time Team? Really miss Phil's hat and Mick's stripy jumpers! Oh God Arrh.


Edited to say:
We like walking, jumping and tubing in rivers, kayaking, eating cake, drinking wine. Generally if we're outdoors we're happy.:)

[Moorf]

It's on one of the Sky Channels and sometimes they put a series on Prime. They're all repeats (has there been a new series since I left in 2004?) - and I've seen most of them several times already, but it's a "Sunday thang" for me! Oh, and Antiques Roadshow is on before (sometimes U.S version sometimes UK)... ohh, I miss decent antiques shops... not that I could afford any here!

[KerryS]

I run and surf, and snowboard in winter. I sail too, when I can blag a place on my friend's boat.
I've just started taking photos, and am doing a photo a day project on Flickr, which is proving great fun, as I'm going off to take pictures all over the place.

I go to lots of gigs and watch loads of bands. I try to get to the theatre and comedy club at least once a month too.
I have a bad habit of spending an awful lot of time in bars drinking wine...

[Familyofmonkeys]

There are tons of outdoorsy things I would love to say we are involved in, but we are kinda hampered by a double buggy at the moment :o

We enjoy running and cycling....but you can't do that with 3 tiny tots in tow, so we have a gym set up at home. We also do walking and get out as often as we can... mostly round parks/beaches at the moment.....anywhere you can take a pushchair! I love swimming & OH does Aikido. Can't wait until we are able to have a go at skiing/snow boarding and kayaking. We both like gardening and growing stuff...but at the moment we are renting a townhouse. And we also love going to museums, even if we do have to wizz round the bits that are boring for kids.

There are just not enough hours in the day for all of our other favourite diversions.
We both spend ages on our laptops/computers in the evening. OH does his IT geeky stuff, with me looking at whatever obscure thing grabs my interest at the time. I often do part time courses to keep the old brain ticking over. Planning an extra-mural course at Massey Uni next. I enjoy baking especially breads, cakes etc. I also love doing all sorts of craft type things like knitting, crocheting, clay stuff, doing glittery painty things with the kids. OH likes tinkering about with his tools and bits of wood, trying his hand at making useful stuff and fixing things. We both love reading (fantasy fiction, sci-fi and plenty of non-fiction stuff too). We also love role-playing AD&D, Lonewolf, Cthulu etc....but haven't met anyone else in NZ who plays yet. We have a ton of boardgames to play when we have been drinking (best time)......Star Wars Risk, AD&D, Dragonology, Wizardology, Monopoly, Scrabble, chess, Triv (not that i ever get any answers right) etc. And then there are all the things we like to watch on TV. We are geeks really.....Stargate, Atlantis, Heroes, Battlestar Galactica, Family guy, American Dad, Buffy, Babylon 5, Star Trek, David Attenborough stuff, and at the moment Gordon Ramsey Uncovered.

Lastly, we love good wine and going out for meals, which doesn't happen much at the moment. Luckily I still get to go out for coffee/cake occassionally while OH at work...otherwise I would be very jealous off all the free restaurant lunches he gets through work....lucky b****r.

[Tia Maria]

What I like to do for fun is, drinking, concerts, theatre, computer games (not necessarily in that order).

What I actually do for fun, take the kids out on their scooters/bikes, beach, park, watch the kids swimming/soccer/rugby/school plays and fish & chips.

What I love more than anything in the world ........ a lie in! :)

Cheers

Tia

[benandclare]

Back in the UK we'd play golf twice at the weekend most weekends and if possible we'd play mid-week too :clap

But here in Christchurch, despite our club being just 5 mins away we struggle to play once a week as there is soooooooooo much more to do on our doorstep.

So much easier to pop out for a day and "knock off" a mountain over 1000m.

So much easier to throw the tramping gear in the truck and head for the hills.

So much easier to lump the skis in the back and hit the slopes.

Or failing that just go for a bike ride, or long walk in the forest or beach.

Or pop down the The Roxx where I get to tie Clare up :nice1 .

We also enjoy gardening and of an evening have been known to take in a concert, Classical or popular, play or even the ballet.

Both love reading and on a Saturday night might even bring out the scrabble board after a glass or two or red plonko, purely medicinal Matron

Oh drat oh forgot we're season ticket holders for the Crusaders and watch just about any sport thanks to the Wok on the roof.

And then there's the photograpy, sewing and "foruming"

:cheers

[Sam B]

Eating, gardening, eating, thinking about food, ski-ing / snow-boarding, restaurants, coffee, watching good series back to back on DVD, walking through bush, picnics, walking up big hills, cafes, LOOKING AT BIRDS - YAY! and other widlife and plants, food, scrabulous on line, FOOD FOOD FOOD.

[Familyofmonkeys]

What I love more than anything in the world ........ a lie in! :)



Oh yes!!! I long for the day when I can have a proper lie-in. Maybe another 18 years :wah

[gil]

Oh yes!!! I long for the day when I can have a proper lie-in. Maybe another 18 years :wah

Our eldest is 19, youngest 10. Still no "real" lie-ins :wah

[gil]

Oh, and for fun I love cooking, eating, wine, walking (especially with the dog on the beach, any beach), meeting friends, reading, exploring new places, kayaking, running, listening to music, sitting on the deck, sleeping, shopping...

[shakyle2906]

I just love being able to spend time with my hubby and son!

We are more of a family over here and have done more in the last 10mths than we ever did................

Sharon
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[shakyle2906]

Oh yes, and keeping my blog up todate............
Sharon
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[silvo]

Skiing, sailing, fishing, tramping, Microlighting over Abel Tasman, horse treking,
couple of weekends ago was the Art Deco festival here in Napier so most people dress up in the 1920's gear - even the kids at school! was like being on a film set Tiger Moth biplanes flying, steam trains doing trips upto Wairoa plus all the old cars from the era! Plus tomorrow off to see Tom Jones at the Mission concert, the Black Barn open air cinema in Jan was pretty cool too !

Neil & Co.

[Moorf]

Or pop down the The Roxx where I get to tie Clare up .

I may have to book an appt to go with you - I've been keen to have a go for ages!! :nice1

[cathgates]

So OK then..... I'll be the unfamiliar still in the uk person to ask..... what where or who is The Roxx......:D

Cath X

[benandclare]

So OK then..... I'll be the unfamiliar still in the uk person to ask..... what where or who is The Roxx......:D

Cath X


http://www.theroxx.co.nz/ :D :D

[castleclan]

Ohhh!

[actiongirl76]

OMG I can't believe they have auto belays on every single route!!
Can't wait to visit:cheers

[Questor]

I did this today:

www.karapoti.co.nz

[dharder]

Our eldest is 19, youngest 10. Still no "real" lie-ins :wah

Oh, Gil, you're ruining all my dreams here. I need people to tell me that it will all get easier soon!

Daniela

[Lupin]

Oh, Gil, you're ruining all my dreams here. I need people to tell me that it will all get easier soon!

Daniela

The Mother's Day the year our daughters were nearly 7 and 20 months we had our first lie in together- we set up breakfast for them the night before on the coffee table, set up a film and paid the older one 1 pound. Bliss :) Only stayed in bed until 8, but it was magic!

We get two every weekend now (unless there's hockey match etc) and they're 5 and 10 :)

[dharder]

We get two every weekend now (unless there's hockey match etc) and they're 5 and 10 :)

Thank you, we have 4 and 8 at the moment, so that won't be too far away.

Although compared to my sister, for example, whose kids are up and at 'em around 6am, I can't actually complain (not that that will stop me, of course).

Daniela

[Lupin]

Thank you, we have 4 and 8 at the moment, so that won't be too far away.

Although compared to my sister, for example, whose kids are up and at 'em around 6am, I can't actually complain (not that that will stop me, of course).

Daniela

Daniela- at 4 and 8 they can get up, make themselves breakfast and leave you for an hour longer! You're being 'had' :laugh

[peebles16]

Daniela- at 4 and 8 they can get up, make themselves breakfast and leave you for an hour longer! You're being 'had' :laugh

Depends - my cheeky ones always manage to find the chocolate stash and are completely hyper on the 'lie-in' days!! I blame the NZ open plan house thingy - gonna get padlock for the fridge :yes

:cheers
Karen

[speckythecky]

Love walking on the beach or through a park, playing with a ball with my sons, going to the markets. Reading a lot more usually a couple of books a week.
Also do a pub quiz every week

Only watch about 2 hours of TV a week, (TV is very poor)

Would love to do more cooking but haven't got a decent hob or oven and decent khifes are still in storage - do manage to BBQ about 3 nights a week

[Moorf]

Hey FOM - did you see the news re Gary Gyjax?

http://www.pcworld.com/article/id,143152-c,games/article.html

Me? Ex-D&D'er... :uhoh

[Familyofmonkeys]

Hey FOM - did you see the news re Gary Gyjax?

http://www.pcworld.com/article/id,143152-c,games/article.html

Me? Ex-D&D'er... :uhoh

Only just heard news..OH saw it alread, but forgot to tell me as we have been a bit preoccupied with out trip to A&E this evening :wah