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About The Tininn, Culverden, North Canterbury, New Zealand

• 1.5 hrs drive from Christchurch
• 3 bedrooms, separate lounge and dining areas
• Secluded quiet location
• Hosts: Murray & Deirdre Sisson
• Altitude: 300 Metres
• Features: Golf, fishing, hunting, hot mineral springs, horse trekking, scenic flights, skiing, tramping, mt. biking, photography, farm tours.
• Climate: Low rainfall, typical inland NZ

Contact Info:

Tininn
13 Pahau St
Culverden
North Canterbury
Phone: 64 3 315 8060
eMail: thesisson@clear.net.nz

 

New Zealand Information

• 12 hours ahead of Greenwich Mean Time (GMT+12). 
• New Zealand operates daylight saving time which commences on the last Sunday in Sept., when 2.00am becomes 3.00am, and ends on the first Sunday in April of the following year, when 3.00am becomes 2.00am, or GMT+13.
• International dialing code is 64
• Money is $NZ dollar and is usually less than the US and Aust. dollar. Credit cards and EFT POS widely available.
• Language: English predominates
• Health: high grade medical and emergency facilities available. 111 is the ph. number for emergencies

Welcome to Tininn Lodge Bed & Breakfast News...

Friday, March 27, 2009....

Getting up to date!

Greetings from Tininn Lodge - Bed and Breakfast accommodation - twenty minutes drive from Hanmer Springs.

Well here we are at the end of March - I love this time of the year - sunny days, the air is cool and all the leaves are starting to change colour. We have even had a couple of frosts. How ever Culverden and Hanmer Springs are still featuring in the
New Zealand temperatures - on the 26th Culverden had 29 deg and on the 27th Hanmer Springs had 27deg, both the hottest in New Zealand.

The Bed and Breakfast is quite quiet and even the Hot Pools in Hanmer Springs don't seem as busy.



Every Monday morning a group of us from Culverden travel to Hanmer Springs to attend an exercise group in the hot pools.
It is a marvellous way to exercise - the warm water cushions those "seen their best days" joints and it's such fun. Who wouldn't enjoy that marvellous scenery?

Last month Murray and I attended the wedding of our friends Tim and Sue who have a lovely property out of Culverden called Cascade. They were so lucky with the weather as we had had a lot of rain - but by 3pm the sun came out and it became quite hot, so we were glad of the leafy trees and the umbrellas to shelter under.

This photo shows some of the guests before the wedding and the front of the lovely old homestead.Music was supplied by a local band made up of the caretaker at the local high school,his son, his brother and the principal of the school and another school teacher - to be honest I could have listened to them all night!

This photo shows Tim and Sue sharing their wedding vows.





Altogether a memorable day with great food and wine and even the weather smiled on them.

Catch you next time


Deirdre
posted by Deirdre  # 3:00 PM 0 Comments

Sunday, March 1, 2009....

This and that and here and there!

Greetings from Tininn Lodge - Bed and Breakfast accommodation
in Culverden - twenty minutes drive from Hanmer Springs.

I can't believe how quickly the year is going - here we are in
March already. I'm aware that I haven't written much here - so I will do a quick summary and make more of an effort to write here on a regular basis!

Firstly the weather - what can I say?
Culverden has 8 times had the highest temperature in New Zealand
in the last two months. However it has been so changeable - on the 8th of February we had 38 deg then on the 10th we had 10 deg and had the fire going.And so it continues.....

At the beginning of Jan we had cousins visiting - Simon, his wife Carole and their daughter Eleanor.Simon is a son of my mothers twin brother George or Geordie as we all called him.
In 2002 Simon and Carole published a book "Smiths of Staveley",
which is a book on our family history.What a great book it is - any family details that you want to know - there they are.


In 1982 Simon won the New Zealand T.V. Mastermind and I think a year later his brother Jeremy was runner-up.


Anyway Malcolm (my brother) and I always used to say that Geordies side of the family got all the brains!!!!
We had a great time talking family with a few wines of course!!





Simon and Deirdre.Jan 2009

At the beginning of February Murray and I travelled down to Wanaka to celebrate my cousin Donalds 60th Birthday.
What a great time we had.It was great to meet all Donalds friends - and have a BBQ birthday party.Murray even met someone that he played rugby with and against in the late 1950's!! I hadn't been to Wanaka for years and loved the trip through the Lindis Pass.
On more humorous note Murray was breathalized (I'm not sure of the spelling) twice - once on the way down and once coming back!!!





Cousin Donald and his son Dougal at the BBQ Birthday Party


So until next week Be happy and Kind to each other!

Deirdre

posted by Deirdre  # 4:41 PM 0 Comments

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