Sunny and Wet

The 12 of us who turned up at the meeting place didn't go walking today, as it was a wet morning, and still raining after we had a cuppa.  But wouldn't you know it, as soon as we headed for home the sun came out.  Nevertheless, I still had to walk the 8,000 steps I have set for myself, so I had a walk around town.  This couple were admiring the view from the Jetty.  Because it is Mono Monday, I changed it to black and white, which I quite like.  Clocked up 8753 steps, or 5.7 k's, so am pleased with myself.  The extra photo is the same photo but in colour.

Blip No. 1931

Life in NZ in 1931.

In January an Australian aviator Guy Menzies made the first solo flight across the Tasman Sea, started from Sydney and ended 11 hours 45 minutes later with a crash landing in a swamp near Harihari on the West Coast!

The Hawkes Bay earthquake, NZ's worst, killed 256 people, mainly in Napier and Hastings.  7.8 magnitude..  

A Dascoutter aircraft on Dominion airline crashed near Wairoa, killing all three people on board.  This was the first fatality on a scheduled air service in NZ.

Famous NZers born in 1931

Robin Gray, politician and Speaker of the House of Representatives.  He opened our Croquet Club back in about 2000.  :  Princess Piki Mahuta, later Dame Te Atairangikaahu, 6th Maori Monarch  :  Ralph Hotere, artist  :  Maurice Gee, novelist and screenwriter  :  Lincoln Hurring, swimmer  

Famous people born in 1931

James Dean, Movie Actor  :  Leonard Nimoy, TV Actor  :  Barbara Eden, 85, TV Actress  :  Mikhail Gorbachev, 86, Russian leader  :  Larry Hagman, TV Actor  :  Bishop Desmond Tutu, 85, Religious leader  :  Rupert Murdoch, 86, Entrepreneur.