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Freedom, it’s the sound of two wheels on the road, the rush of the wind, the smell of fuel and the adrenalin rush of speed, that’s the bikers’ world, it’s a world that Gina Skilling loves. He talks to Sue Newman about his life-long love affair with big, bad-arsed, high octane road bikes.

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reedom, it’s the framework Gina Skilling has built his life around.

He’s Di’s husband, Gene and Karla’s dad and he’s a grandad too, but above all else, he’s a man who loves to break free, cut loose and hit the road.

He no longer sports his trademark ginger locks, grudgingly admits to being 65, but says he’s got plenty of good riding years left.

“You don’t give up when you hit a number, you ride as long as you can sling your leg over.”

And even when you’ve finished riding that doesn’t mean it’s the end. Gina intends to exit this world in style, on a Harley, even if that means a casket towed behind his bike on a trailer.

There’s an Aussie undertaker who does bikers’ funerals, Highway to Hell it’s called, and he’s hoping the idea will move across the Tasman by the time he needs it.

“You have to go out the way you lived,” he says.

His kind of freedom is a lifetime commitment, a love story that

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will never grow old. He’s a man whose enduring passion is motorbikes.

When most kids were riding their trikes, Gina Skilling was already dreaming of riding a motorbike. The day his uncle slung him over the petrol tank of his bike for a quick ride down the drive was the day that passion was born.

“That first whiff of petrol, of oil and I was hooked.”

He comes from a long line of blokes who loved bikes – uncles, cousins, his dad; in his youth he just assumed bikes and boys belonged together.

Gina’s one of those guys who, when he makes a commitment, is in for the long haul.

Take his job on the slaughter board at Silver Fern Farms. He’s been there so long he’s become an institution – 46 years and rising. Like biking, he has no intention of retiring any time soon.

But work, like most things in Gina’s life, fills the gaps between one ride and another. A love affair with a bike is like having a terminal disease. Once it’s in your system it’s there for

life, there’s no room for compromise, he says.

“It’s not just a big part of life, it is life.”

Nothing, absolutely nothing can beat the freedom of the road, the wind in your hair. The wind in the hair days, of course have gone. Helmets and a receding hairline have taken care of that.

“Back then it was long and it’d get all tangled; it’d get knotted to hell but it looked good.”

He scraped together enough cash at 16, to buy his first bike, a Triumph. It mightn’t have been the flashest or the fastest bike on the road, but he thought he was made. continued next page

5 Today he owns five. He’s not sure how, or why.

“I know you’ve only got one arse and you can only ride one at a time, but you somehow just seem to accumulate them.”

Having a fleet of bikes makes you feel pretty good about the world and while they represent a sizeable investment, paying for them is only the start.

He’s not sure wife Di agrees. She’s had to adopt the love-the-man, love-thebike philosophy, to adjust to a marriage where she was never sure who ranked number one – the bike, the wife or the kids.

She reckons they’re his super.

He’s not so sure.

Bikes, good bikes, aren’t cheap, but once you’ve bought them and start tinkering, that’s when the costs start mounting.

True bikers do most of their own maintenance; today’s bikers, Gina says, have no idea what it was like in an era when bikes were far from reliable.

In his youth, there was a real camaraderie between the young men finding their way in the bikers’ world. They were bound together by their love of bikes and the pleasure they took in riding – fast.

True bikers don’t go chasing image, it comes to

them. They ride because they love to ride, the rest is just window dressing.

Back in the day when Gina was first hitting the road, anyone with a bike was perceived as a bad guy, but today you never know who you’ll find under a helmet, he says.

“People with the money like playing the big bad boy image, but we’ve always had that. It’s been a lifestyle for us; people are buying that lifestyle today.”

In his hard core biker years, Gina says he remembers people asking him if he was ever going to grow up; those same people own and ride bikes today.

Biking as a mainstream recreational activity has come of age.

Like his friends, Gina has had to battle public perception.

“People get the wrong idea when they see a group of bikes, but the guys are just out there on the road to enjoy riding their bikes. Some people think that anyone riding a bike who’s not in a fluoro vest is a drug dealing, murdering thug. Don’t believe everything you see on TV.” And what happens when a biker falls in love?

There are conditions of course and that’s that the bike is part of the deal.

He’s lucky, wife Di loves his bike. He assumes she loves him because she’s stuck with him for years.

While some biker wives barely tolerate bikes, but others deliver the bike or me ultimatum. continued over page

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6 Inevitably for some, marriage meant an end to all kinds of freedom and Gina says he’s lost count of the bikes that disappeared the day a wedding ring arrived. It wasn’t an option for him.

“We all scrimped and scraped to get by so we could keep them; it’s either in your blood or it’s not and if it is, you don’t let your bike go.”

At the end of the day it’s all about balance. Getting it right with the woman in your life, being a dad to your kids and turning up for work on Monday ready to put in a hard week so you can go riding the next weekend.

He must have the balance right, he’s still married, still employed.

With age, the reasons for riding change; now it’s as much about the company as it is the destination or the speed, Gina says.

“You could ride to Fairton with your mates and have a good time.”

He reckons he’ll be still cruising the highways and byways for a while yet.

“Hell I hope I’ve got another 20 years riding left yet. It’ll be a bad day when I can’t ride, when I have to sell my bikes and go into a rest home.”

But what is it that keeps men in their middle years, with thinning hair and looming paunches, continuing to don leathers, hop on Harleys and roar off into the sunset?

It’s hard to describe, Gina says. It’s the feeling, the people you’re with, the freedom and it’s, well it’s just the bikes.

Mum Dulcie reckons she had two choices when her boys Tony (Gina) and Wayne decided to buy motorbikes – fight it and lose them or accept it and deal with it.

Dad was no stranger to bikes, but his were never the speedy kind, more often broken down and pushed than ridden. Even so, Gina stashed his first bike at a friend’s house for a few weeks before he braved bringing it home.

With time, Dulcie became so accustomed to the bikers’ world she admires good bikes and takes a mother’s pride in Tony’s collection.

She tagged a ride on a Harley for her 80th birthday but when the time came, she chickened out.

She’s a big supporter of the Jokers’ Club bike show but reckons at 83, it’s time she stopped attending. It’s a bit embarrassing being the oldest bike fan there.

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The softer side of the hard man-on-the-road, Gina Skilling relaxing at home with wife Di.

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At one of the last bastions of the blokes world, Gina Skilling enjoys a beer with fellow biker Baldy Roulston at the Jokers’ Club.

The bikers’ club F or Ashburton’s homegrown, hard-core bikers, there’s a special place they call home. It’s a house on Alford Forest Road, the Jokers’ Club.

Don’t go looking to join. They won’t have you.

Membership is by invitation and it’s gender specific. No girls allowed, says Baldy Roulston.

“Look at the name, it says Jokers, not Jokesses. If women want to join, it won’t happen in our lifetime, for them it’s all bad news. We have enough problems amongst ourselves without chucking women into the mix.”

Sure you can bring your other half along to the odd social function, but the club is all about blokes being blokes.

“You talk about friendships in clubs, well ours are tighter,” he says.

They meet once a week, ride most weekends and share the kind of bond that’s forged on the road through hard riding and watching one another’s backs. Age doesn’t matter, it’s the passion that counts.

“You can’t just rock up and ask to join.

Hang around for 12 months and we’ll see.

We need to get to know you’ll fit as a member.”

Membership of the Jokers is not for everyone. It’s a commitment, there’s no such thing as a casual member.

Join up and be part of the brotherhood or don’t bother.

Jokers don’t like talking about gangs. They say a gang name is just another name for a bikers’ club. It’s just that some clubs take behaviour to the edge.

“You have bad eggs in all clubs, but just because they ride bikes they’re seen as bad. Most of the guys in the outlaw clubs are just the same as us, but those clubs have just got some hard men.”

The bikie reputation rubs on off mainstream bikers too.

“We all get hassled but what people don’t realise is most of us are people with families, nice homes and good jobs.”

The club is not just about boys and bikes, however. It runs the South Island’s largest bike show every second year and it does that with just a handful of members doing the work.

This November will be the 11th show and each year it gets bigger – more bikes, more bikers, more spectators.

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A new life on the farm YOU Y OU magazine writer Susan Sandys randomly chooses a number from the phonebook and c ch ho tells tte ellls the story of the person who answers.

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modern two-storey house which rises from the plains at Lismore is the home of April McDougall and husband John.

The couple moved into their newly built home one year ago, leaving behind their two sons in the farm’s homestead, just down the driveway.

“We always joke about that, that we had to build to get away from the boys,” she said.

The boys are Cory, 25, a builder, and Bradley, 21, an engineer.

They also left behind two cats and two labradors, which had all been happy to stay in the house they knew so well, meaning Mrs McDougall is thinking of getting another cat to

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keep her company in the new home.

Mrs McDougall has beautifully decorated the new house, and is planning landscaping, to involve one acre of lawn, hedges, trees and garden beds.

The house represents the first build for the couple, and looks out to a large storage lake with a distant backdrop of the Southern Alps.

Birds, including a black swan couple and their six cygnets, are resident on the pond, and Cory has built a jetty.

It is a place in their lives they want to be, being able to entertain friends and family, including their two sons and their long-term girlfriends. continued next page

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April McDougall is enjoying settling into a new home on her Lismore farm.

Mr McDougall is the third generation of his family to farm the property, and after marrying the couple first lived in the farm’s cottage before moving to the homestead when they had children.

The luxury of modern living is a far cry from the upbringing Mrs McDougall had on Mt Alford Station, where she was the youngest of 10 children to parents Jim and Nancy Harmer.

It was a typical hardworking family farm life for April’s parents, and she would often wonder when her mother slept.

She would be working late at night in the home, and up early in the morning, having to undertake many tasks on the farm as well.

“My mother was my role model really. I

think she’s really instilled the work ethic into all of us,” Mrs McDougall said.

Her older sisters, of which there were six altogether, would go mustering on their horses with her father and be away for days on end.

As one of the younger ones she would go up into the hills picking wild strawberries, and in summer she and her siblings would bike down to Taylors Stream and Bowyers Stream and swim there for the day.

“It was amazing because what we could do as kids, the kids these days don’t get to do the same things.”

She would perch on the back of the trailer as her dad fed out hay, and she and her sister would trail pieces of string behind it

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as it moved along to see who could get the longest piece.

Her older brother took the farm over but later sold it and is now on another property, causing some grumblings among family members, particularly the brothers. But it was short-lived and today all 10 siblings get on well and manage to catch up together from time to time.

Most of her siblings were farming today, and all but one, at Kaikoura, remained in Canterbury.

Mrs McDougall enjoys being home-based so she is available to help out on the family farm on a daily basis. In spring she also works as an AB technician for LIC, and is a field as-

sistant for LIC. Her busy working life does not leave a lot of time for outside interests, but she belongs to a small badminton group at Hinds, where she has made great friends.

The issue of farm succession is one she and Mr McDougall will be considering for their two boys soon, and they plan to sit down and talk about what the future may hold for the family.

While the couple had created their dream home, it was one they built in mind for the future of their farm going into a fourth generation.

“Hopefully one day the boys will take over and we will retire off the farm,” she said.

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The 26-year-old man from the Czech Republic is happily settled in Methven, earning his living at Ski Time and spending that cash on Mt Hutt Skifield. He couldn’t be happier.

In terms of his career, he’s still young, but when you started in the industry at just 15, 11 years mounts up to a fair bit of experience, Olda says.

He admits he’s lucky to be able to combine the three loves of his life – travel, snow and food and says New Zealand is a close as it gets to perfection for someone like him.

In the five months he’s been in New Zealand, Olda has worked at Hanmer’s

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Braemar Lodge, but the lure of snow drew him south. “I am lucky because I spend my day on the mountain and then I come back to work at 3pm. In the summer I hope I can get some work on a farm with kiwifruit.”

While there are differences between the food he cooked at home and the food he cooks in New Zealand, he’s impressed with what he’s found here.

“In New Zealand it’s good, we cook real food at Ski Time.”

As a chef he’s passionate about food and when it comes to his own favourites, he finds it hard to choose just one.

“I like all good food, but it must look nice and it must be tasty.”

From Ski Time’s menu Olda says he can’t go past blue cod.

“It’s my absolute favourite.”

When cooking, a chef has to turn a hand to everything, but given a choice, Olda would take meat every day over desserts.

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Add onions and mix well.

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I fell in love with this attractive walled city, in spite of the indierent weather. And who could really complain about the rain when the whole area was suering a spring drought?

Situated on one of France’s greatest rivers, the Rhone, Avignon has a typically turbulent history.

One only has to look at the crenellation adorning the Palais des Papes; not so much a palace but a fortress. It should be a priority to visit, it isn’t expensive and the audio guide is free and essential.

The actual history of the Avignon popes and their liking for luxury, or austerity, is fascinating in itself. No-one more fascinating than Pope John XXII, elected at 72 as a caretaker pope – he lasted until he was 90! And now, the bridge. The

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idea of building the bridge here was the brainchild of an unschooled shepherd boy, Benezet, and construction started in the 12th century. It had a chequered history and was finally partially washed away in the 1668 floods. And so it remains, a bridge to nowhere, the strong waters of the Rhone swirling around it. For a small fee you can walk on the remains of the bridge with your ‘free’ audio guide. Hang on to your hat, though, it can be very windy up there and I was in fear of my glasses being whipped o!

For another angle on the bridge you can walk across the Daladier road bridge and along the opposite bank of the river. The city very thoughtfully provides a free ferry back to the steps below the gardens that rise behind the Palais des Papes.

For the culturally minded Avignon has an excellent opera house that puts on chamber concerts, ballets and opera and there are several excellent galleries. It’s such an enjoyable city to walk around, with its medieval street pattern and ancient buildings, let alone the proud city

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walls. There are several tours oered from Avignon and one not to miss is the combined tour to Pont du Gard and Chateauneuf-du-Pape. For me, seeing the Pont du Gard was like seeing Brunelleschi’s great dome in Florence for the first time, familiar yet still breathtaking. Built around 2000 years ago, the highest bridge ever built by the Romans (160 feet high) it combines power with beauty. Don’t go to Avignon without driving out to it or taking one of the many trips!

If you combine the excursion with Chateauneuf-duPape it might be a lot better that you don’t drive for wine-tasting is on the menu.

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India’s cultural capital of Mumbai is in the thick of the fashion world with Lakme &ĂƐŚŝŽŶ tĞĞŬ͕ ǁƌĂƉƉŝŶŐ ƵƉ ĮǀĞ ĚĂLJƐ ŽĨ ƌƵŶǁĂLJ ƉƌĞƐĞŶƚĂƟŽŶƐ ĞĂƌůLJ ƚŚŝƐ ŵŽŶƚŚ͘ /ƚ ďĞŐĂŶ ǁŝƚŚ Ă ƐŚŽǁ ŽĨ ďƵĚĚŝŶŐ LJŽƵŶŐ designers including Asa Kazingmei and his ĐŽůůĞĐƟŽŶ ŝŶƐƉŝƌĞĚ ďLJ ĨĂďƌŝĐƐ ĨƌŽŵ /ŶĚŝĂ͛Ɛ ŶŽƌƚŚĞĂƐƚĞƌŶ EĂŐĂ dƌŝďĞ͘ KƚŚĞƌ ĚĞƐŝŐŶĞƌƐ showcased bold cuts and colours, true to ǁŚĂƚ ĞĚŝƚŽƌƐ͕ ƐƚLJůŝƐƚƐ ĂŶĚ ƌĞƚĂŝůĞƌƐ ĞdžƉĞĐƚ from a place rich in jewel tones and lush ƚĞdžƚƵƌĞƐ͘ Krishna Mehta targeted the upcoming ǁĞĚĚŝŶŐ ƐĞĂƐŽŶ ǁŝƚŚ Ă ŵŝdž ŽĨ ƚƌĂĚŝƟŽŶĂů ĂŶĚ ŵŽĚĞƌŶ ďƌŝĚĂů ǁĞĂƌ͘ tŚŝůĞ ƚŚĞƌĞ ǁĞƌĞ Ă ĨĞǁ ůĞŚĞŶŐĂƐ ĂŶĚ ƐĂƌŝƐ ŝŶ ŚĞƌ ĐŽůůĞĐƟŽŶ͕ she also had some modern pieces like a ƐĂƌŝ ŬŝŵŽŶŽ ǁŝƚŚ ĞůĂďŽƌĂƚĞ ƐƟƚĐŚŝŶŐ͕ ĂŶĚ ũĂĐŬĞƚƐ ĂŶĚ ďůŽƵƐĞƐ ǁŝƚŚ ůĂĐĞ ĐƵƚǁŽƌŬ͘ ^ŚLJĂŵĂů ĂŶĚ ŚƵŵŝŬĂ ^ŚŽĚŚĂŶ ĚƵďďĞĚ ƚŚĞŝƌ ĨĞƐƟǀĞ ĐŽůůĞĐƟŽŶ DĂŚĂƌĂũĂ͕ ƉĂLJŝŶŐ ŚŽŵĂŐĞ ƚŽ ƚŚĞ ŐƌĂŶĚĞƵƌ ĂŶĚ ŐůŽƌLJ ŽĨ ƌŽLJĂůƚLJ͘ dŚĞ ĐŽůůĞĐƟŽŶ ŚĂƌŬĞŶĞĚ ďĂĐŬ ƚŽ ƚŚĞ Mughal era, which was at its height during ƚŚĞ ϭϳƚŚ ĂŶĚ ϭϴƚŚ ĐĞŶƚƵƌŝĞƐ͘ dŚĞ ĐŽůŽƌ ƉĂůĞƩĞ ŽĨ ǁŝŶĞ͕ ũĂĚĞ͕ ƉƵƌƉůĞ͕ ŝǀŽƌLJ ĂŶĚ ŐŽůĚ ƉĂŝŶƚĞĚ Ă ůƵdžƵƌŝŽƵƐ ƐƚŽƌLJ͘ ^ŚŝǀĂŶ Θ EĂƌƌĞƐŚ ŽīĞƌĞĚ Ă ƐǁŝŵǁĞĂƌ ĂŶĚ ĐƌƵŝƐĞͲǁĞĂƌ ĐŽůůĞĐƟŽŶ ŝŶƐƉŝƌĞĚ ďLJ ŚŽƌƐĞƐ͕ ǁŝƚŚ ĨĂďƌŝĐ ŝŶƐƉŝƌĞĚ ďLJ ƚŚĞ ŐůŽƐƐ ŽĨ ĂŶ ĞƋƵŝŶĞ͛Ɛ ƐŬŝŶ͘ dŚĞ ŚĂŶĚŵĂĚĞ ůŽƵǀĞƌĞĚ ũĞƌƐĞLJ ǁĂƐ ŵŽůĚĞĚ ŝŶƚŽ ďŝŬŝŶŝ͕ ĚƌĞƐƐ͕ ŐŽǁŶ͕ ƐĂƌŝ ĂŶĚ ƐŚŝƌƚƐ ĂƐ ǁĞůů ĂƐ ƚŚĞ ĐŽůůĞĐƟŽŶ͛Ɛ signature sari bikini and the new Kafsuit — Ă ŬĂŌĂŶͲŝŶƐƉŝƌĞĚ ƐǁŝŵƐƵŝƚ͘ Ͷ W

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INTERIOR PAINTING – Last month Shane Woods looked at preparing your interior for painting. This week we get the paintbrush out ...

Ceilings When rolling paint on a ceiling, maintain a wet edge to avoid creating lines and ridges. If you are using fast-drying paint, you may have to work quickly, without stopping. Using an extension handle means you can paint from the floor instead of from a ladder that has to be moved around the room.

Walls Paint the entire wall before stopping so the painted areas won’t lose their wet edges.

Whether you paint in sections from top to bottom or from side to side across the room is up to you.

Tight spots You probably won’t have enough room to use the zigzag technique over and under windows and above doors and doorways. Instead, just roll the paint on horizontally. For areas that are narrower than the standard roller, use a smaller roller or a paintbrush.

Above – While you would normally use a roller to paint your ceiling, an ornate ceiling may be the job for a brush.

Right – Painting windows is quicker with a sash trim brush, making it easier to get into corners.

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– easy, affordable Doors with smooth, flat surfaces are easily rolled, but doors with inset panels can be tricky. No matter what type of door you are Shane dealing with, paint the entire door without stopping, otherwise the lap marks may show.

Ordinary Kiwi bloke Shane Before you start, remove the doorknobs, the ‘Woodsy’ Woods is handy around plates behind them, and the latch plate on the house with a hammer. Each the edge of the door. This makes for a tidy month we’ll check in on what his finish and faster painting. latest DIY project has been.

On ornate doors, start by painting the inset panels at the top of the door.

Paint all the panels and the moulding around them. Then work your way down A roller will give you the same surface finish from the top to the bottom, painting the top as the rest of the wall whereas brushes apply rail, middle rail, and bottom rail (the horizonpaint less evenly and tend to leave trails. tals) with back-and-forth strokes. Then paint the vertical sides with up-and-down strokes.

Doors, windows, trim Painting windows will be quicker with a sash trim brush, angled slightly across the bottom Now that we have covered the walls and ceilings, it’s time to move onto windows, doors, to make it easier to get into corners and tight spaces. skirting boards and trim.

Work inside to outside, top to bottom, cutEven when the walls and ceilings - the largest painting surfaces in a room - are coated, the job ting up to the glass first, trying to get 1-2mm on is far from over. Painting the trim, windows and the glass to create a good seal. Finish with the reveals or face of the window, then the sill. doors can take as much time, if not more.

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From Africa to call Ashburton home

by Sam Morton

K

urt Greenland is leading by example for his family.

Together with his wife Eva, he is demonstrating the importance of following your dreams, and since moving to New Zealand 10 years ago, Kurt is proud to call Mid Canterbury home.

The couple moved to Tinwald in 2010 with their five children Mailaka, 17, Anastasia, 15, Olivia-Rose, 7, Isabella, 4, Caleb, 3, and five months ago welcomed baby Josh to the family.

Kurt and Eva, of Zimbabwe and Botswana respectively, spent about eight years dairy farming

throughout Canterbury, before Kurt decided he had had enough, packed the job in and aimed for a career change.

The 33-year-old turned his hand to building and is now enjoying his first year as an apprentice with local firm Bradford Building, where he says the lifestyle is more balanced.

“It’s definitely colder in Ashburton, but we feel a real sense of belonging as a family,” Kurt said.

“We’re very comfortable and settled in Tinwald now and for us it was important to give our children the best upbringing, somewhere safe and somewhere we can all call home.”

Interestingly enough, Eva has her hands full at home too, not only looking after their newest

addition, but also voluntarily home-schooling her other children five days a week.

It’s a system that puts limits on their social life, but there are no complaints with elder siblings Mailaka and Anastasia who both find plenty of time to socialise through their sports and other clubs.

“I’m hoping to go to university and study anthropology, maybe something about people too,” Mailaka said.

“I have a real interest in the Middle East and I’m working hard to get what I need to get in.”

Meanwhile, the other children are kept occupied through study and a variety of youth groups such as the St John youth cadets, which they are all actively involved with.

In fact the family is so busy, Eva predicts they only find time to get together once a week.

“We’d sit down for a family dinner maybe at least once during the week, everyone is so busy,” Eva said.

“With dairy farming, we didn’t know if we were going to stay in one place for long and with the kids all being so homesick, we decided that we would keep them home and teach them.

“It was a real big deal for the kids leaving Botswana, but I’m happy to say everyone is enjoying their new life in New Zealand and they all love Ashburton,” she said.

The family marked a special occasion last week, pledging their allegiance to New Zealand and becoming true Kiwis.

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Proud family: The Greenland family Caleb, far left, Anastasia, dad Kurt, mum Eva holding baby Josh, Isabella, Olivia-Rose and eldest sibling Mailaka, are enjoying their new life in Mid Canterbury.

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Jared’s RX-7 heaven

by Jonathan Leask

D

ue to having a rotary engine the Mazda RX-7 has a distinctive sound.

Jared Tubb’s RX-7 is even more distinctive because he built it himself.

As a first-project car Jared picked up an RX-7 body and set about sculpting an end product essentially from scratch.

“We stripped it all apart and had it redone.

Nothing has been untouched,” Jared said.

For over five years he, with help from his brother, Tony, toiled away on the car in their spare time, until it was finished last year.

As well as being car enthusiasts the pair had the advantage of working in handy trades, with Jared an upholsterer and his brother a painter.

“It made it more fun being able to do things yourself.”

So impressed with the finished product, Jarred entered his RX-7 into the Fours and Rotaries Nationals last year and came away with two awards.

“It got awarded best paintwork and best bodywork in show.

“The most satisfying part about the car was that we were basically doing it all on the cheap. So doing as much of the work ourselves as we could so that the finished product was really ours.”

It looks good and, depending on your opinion, its sound is horrible or music to the ears.

But how does it drive?

“It’s pretty nasty to drive and I don’t really take it out all that much ... it’s an every-nowand-then car.”

It’s low to the ground and the distinctive sound of the engine also makes it a noisy ride.

The Mazda RX-7 is renowned for its rotary engine, an internal combustion engine that works in a completely different way to the

Proud of his own product – Jared Tubb’s Mazda RX-7.

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conventional piston engine.

In a piston engine, the same volume of space (the cylinder) alternately does four different jobs – intake, compression, combustion and exhaust. A rotary engine does these same four jobs, but each one happens in its own part of the housing with the rotation creating the iconic sound.

With Jared’s RX-7 project now completed, he has already picked up his next project, a Toyota Trueno.

Right: Inside the completely re-done RX7 interior is all Jared’s handiwork.

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