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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...

Saturday, September 18, 2010....

YOU'VE GOT TO HAVE A SENSE OF HUMOUR!!

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

Our daughter and son in law live just outside Rangiora.

Just before you get to their place there lives a farmer with a great sense of humour.

Out in the middle of one of his paddocks he has put up a large notice board on which he comments on various topics.Every time we drive past and see a new topic I make the comment" wish I had my camera with me!"

About three weeks ago I did have my camera with me and you can see the result.





I don't know who the farmer is - but I appreciate his thought provoking comments and in future I will attempt to publish more of them.

Deirdre
posted by Deirdre  # 10:15 AM 0 Comments

Friday, September 17, 2010....

GUESS WHAT WE WOKE UP TO?

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

Well we were certainly woken with the big earthquake on the 4th September and have felt some of the aftershocks since.We really feel for the people struggling in Christchurch and hope that the aftershocks stop soon.We have heard on the news that there were six aftershocks in an hour last night - very scary for people.

This morning we were woken with a different noise - lots of trucks and people talking. This is unusual for us as our street is usually very quiet.This is what we saw!





They had moved a new house in over the road from us and had managed to get stuck in the wet grass. Then they brought in a frontend loader to pull the truck out!





It is now 2pm and the house is in place but still up on stilts - all is quiet!





All that is left is the deep tyre marks from where the truck got stuck.I was very relieved that they missed the plane trees that were planted there last year!You can see one of them in the first picture - there are actually three of them - platanus acerifolia and they apparently grow to about 20 metres +! Doubt if I will be around to see them get that big!

Till next time -take care.






posted by Deirdre  # 2:24 PM 0 Comments

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