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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...

Sunday, August 8, 2010....

GROWING PUMPKINS IN CULVERDEN

Greetings from Tininn Lodge - Bed & Breakfast accommodation in Culverden - 20 minutes from Hanmer Springs and 90 minutes from Christchurch.


It's a cold and miserable day today and snow is expected - so what better idea than to catch people up with life in Culverden.

Earlier in the year Bruce (the other half of Weka.A )
commented that he had rather a large pumpkin growing in his garden.I'm embarrassed to say that we didn't take a lot of notice!
However when he sent us the following photos I just couldn't believe it.





Then we thought perhaps he had enlarged the photo!




Well this next photo showed us the pumpkin in the garden near the garage - it was certainly big!





Later on it was harvested and the big question became"what to do with it?".People suggested that because it was so big that it wouldn't be any good to eat.

So Murray and Bruce decided to have a competition so that people could guess the weight and the proceeds would go to The Culverden Plunket.





Tickets were sold and the person who guessed the correct weight won a Seedling Tray and Planter Box donated by Weka.A





Murray is taking the pumpkin down to Amuri Transport to be weighed.It weighted a massive 86.6 kg and the prize was won by a local Shane from Mouse Point





The Seedling Tray and Planter Box that was won for guessing the correct weight of the pumpkin.





Much to everyones surprise the pumpkin was fine to eat - so there are a lot of people with pumpkin soup in their freezers this year.





As for next years pumpkins - well who knows?!




posted by Deirdre  # 4:23 PM 0 Comments

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