Spring is here! Daylight saving is here and it’s great to now be able to do something outdoors after work.
Lawns starting to grow again so sharpen those lawn mowers
Congratulations to Alex Farmer for coming second in the Canterbury Apprentice of the Year, he is now fully qualified and has a promotion within the company
Plant your potatoes now ready for a Christmas day feast
Rugby world cup well underway so go the mighty All Blacks
Still getting those nasty aftershocks, but think they are finally slowing down
Great Sunday lunch the other day at our local Langdale Winery
Another big snowfall in Christchurch biggest for 50 years
1 foot of snow at home
Jess the company dog not impressed and wouldn’t walk on it (the snow that is)
Snow storm stopped all work for 2 days .all sites completely covered
Still more after shocks, but seem to be getting less frequent – Yeah!
Thanks to Carters for the trip to Brisbane to watch the tri-nations rugby. Unfortunately the All Blacks lost, but saving themselves for the rugby world cup I guess
Spring on way evenings getting longer
Good food at Lee’s Kitchen recently a new restaurant in upper Riccarton (cheap but good)
Once again our beautiful city has been hit hard by another earthquake .
This is devastating for us all and will take some time to get over it, but we will recover.
Once again our dedicated staff have regrouped and are ready to face the challenge ahead, it won’t be easy, but together Cantabrians can do it.
I don’t know what else to say, but we will rise again.
Please try and take some time out. As I write this Jess our beautiful dog looks at me and reminds me there is light at the end of the tunnel
Once again sorry about lack of news, the earthquake is keeping me very busy.
More success!
We recently attended the 2010 Registered Master Builders National House of the Year gala dinner in Auckland and have added some more awards to our collection:
Best interior finish award in New Zealand
Best outdoor living award in New Zealand
And the real highlight was a platinum award for winning over five national awards. Only five residential building contractors have achieved this since the competition started twenty years ago.
No complaints about the weather over the last few weeks. Christchurch weather has been fantastic our swimming pool now has the cover removed and the bathing suits were out on Saturday.
Now picking tomatoes from my greenhouse.
Grapes are also looking wonderful – we have been frost free this year
For ten days Dave (our Contracts Director) recently swapped his Clive Barrington Construction “desk job” and dusted off the cobwebs on his nail pocket and joined a voluntary team who helped complete a school building project on the remote island of Ambae in Vanuatu.
The building project was made a little harder given then was no power or running water on the island! All materials were transported in by the team.
Thanks to Carters for your support. Clive Barrington Construction was very happy to help out with this needy project by supplying some of the materials, team t-shirts and letting Dave out of the office for a couple of weeks!
Dave says “it was a terrific experience, extremely hot and I am very happy to come back 5kg lighter!! My first beer on return was magic!!”
Hi all, sorry about the lack of news, but have been away in New York and yes what a city!
Carters our main supplier put on a fantastic trip and it was great to catch up with so many other building industry people . Thank you to the Carter’s team and all the generous suppliers that made the trip the best ever
Yes we too came home to a completely trashed house after the 7.1 earthquake. Thanks to my wonderful family, most of the mess was cleaned up when we returned.
I hope you are all getting your lives back together after this testing time. Cantabrians sure know how to band together in an emergency. Our solid concrete house stood up well. Structural engineer Kevin Simcock obviously did a good job – no more after shocks please!
We are off to another Master Builder’s House of the Year National Final in November, after receiving a gold reserve award for the Scarborough Rocks project
Spring growth is now in full swing at West Melton, so my Saturdays are back to lawn mowing.
The stone masons dinner was held in the cook house at our mount Algidus Station site.Our site chef Paul cooked a fantastic steak meal for everybody , fine wines were free flowing and capped off with a cheese board and port. Thanks to Jamie and Jane for their generosity. Thanks to Dave Walker who was our sober driver.Songs like (I’m a lumberjack) were heard in the background.
Thanks to Pete Dunn and his team who have made a fantastic job of the stone.
We held our mid winter staff dinner at Little India Restaurant in Merivale 36 staff were present and a great night was had by all.Thanks to Katrina and Lance for taking photographs during the night
The tomato plants are now planted in my glasshouse
Another great win by the All Blacks against South Africa on the weekend these lads seem to be at the top of their game
