General happenings

Hope everyone's making the most of the summer weather on the odd occasion that the sun decides to come out....Just wanted to say thanks to Maz for having the latest chemmat luncheon at her house last saturday, and to Claire for organising. We had about a dozen people come over to catch up. Best effort was made by Charles who biked 20km to buy ingredients for food and then came down all the way from whangas to join us!

Also, on Thursday Maz, Kenny, Evangeline and I went rock climbing at Extreme Edge in Mt Wellington. Kenny was undaunted by the toughest overhangs and Maz took to the walls like a fish to water, being a natural born climber (remember the Mangawhai playground?). Evangeline proved that being, err, vertically challenged is no obstacle to scaling the heights.

Anyway we're hoping to have a regular chemmat event for those of us in Aucky at least once a month, not necessarily rock climbing (tho it might come up again)...other ideas include sampling international cuisine, mini golf etc. So if anyone feels like organising an outing, please feel free. Otherwise, look out for news of the next event, I hope to see less pikers next time!