About Neil
Name: Graeme Neil Holloway
Date of birth: 21 December 1942
Place of birth: Ewen St, Takapuna
Wife: 1. Marion Sydney Dotter
Children: Ian, Barry and Derek
Daughters-in-law: Emma, Katie (nearly but not quite), Claudia
Grandchildren: Lizzie, Edward, Caspar, Isaac, Diego, Leila,
Wife 2: Jacqueline Joan Garner
Children: Nick and George
Daughters-in-law: Vicky and Jess
Grandchildren: Theo and Emi aka Woolfie
Houses I have owned:
Eynsford Close, Petts Wood
Downing St, Glenfield, Auckland
Chatham Avenue, Hayes
Hayes Lane, Hayes
Kings Hall Road, Beckenham,
Highview, Layham's Road, Keston
Molvic Court, Beckenham Road, Beckenham
I grew up in Maungakiekie Ave, Auckland
I lived in flats in Lowestoft and Wickham Road, Beckenham
We rented in the Olympic Park
We lived in two of our Buy-to-let flats in Forest Hill
At one stage we owned 31 properties.
Fings what I done without Jac
Amazon: canoe trip, jungle trek, floating down river on an inner tube, night-time trek
Jordan - road a bike from Amman to Aqaba via Petra
Egypt cruise with Jac's Dad
3 peaks challenge - Ben Nevis, Scaffel Pike and Snowdon (didn't finish)
Marathons - Guildford, Death Valley, walking in London, walking around Beckenham
Triathlons, Duathlons and Aquathlon
Camino De Santiago with Derek
Archeological dig with Barry
Midnight sun run with Ian in Tromso, Norway
With George to a 3 day event in Miami with Tony Robbins including fire walking,
Week's course at Arcosanti with Nick
Surrey cricket with Jac’s dad who introduced himself to Joel Garner as Jac's nephew
Olympic Games opening ceremony participant and volunteer at Volley Ball
Volunteering in Olympic village driving the elderly to see the sights
Rode the Velodrome and BMX circuits
Abseiled down the statue in Olympic Park
Drove through Zeeland
Big island in Hawaiian chain. Observatory, walked across lava field to watch lava flowing into the ocean
Seven noses of Soho
Sinai desert trek, sleeping out in tents. Saw moon shadows.
Snow shoeing in Poland
London Loop
Capital ring
Casablanca
PADI licence NZ - dives in Hawaii, NZ, Mediterranean, Australia, Israel
Solo flight
Rally driving lesson
Brands Hatch driving experience and skid pan
Climb Wellington Arch, Hyde Park Corner
Take the lift up Westminster Cathedral Tower
Jeremy Bentham Auto-Icon
Walk all the streets of Forest Hill and Beckenham
More than 300 Parkruns
More than 100 different Parkruns
Death Valley Marathon
Capital Ring
Ace Cafe
Sri Swaminarayan Mandir – Hindu Temple
Climb Big Ben
Welding course
Electrics course
Nigeria
Brazil
Saudi Arabia
Bahrain
Crewed in a Dragon Boat at World Corporate Games
Flew in a news helicopter over Khayelisha
Walked Capre Reinga to Auckland
Walked Banks Peninsular with Janne
Istanbul
Great Ocean Road
Tour of White House
Jesse James Cave
7 noses of Soho
Coronation Stone Kingston
Airship Seaford
Pope’s private apartments and office
Versailles, Eiffel Tower, Notre Dame, Arc de Triomphe, Louvre, Eiffel Tower with Edward
Acapulco cliff divers
Panama Canal
Tahiti
Cook Islands
Brazil
Curaçao
John Rigway Adventure School, Scotland
Zip wire Rotorua and over Alligators Florida
Tongariro Crossing
Microlight flight
Glider flight
Walked across NZ in Auckland
Robot Wars
Nile cruise
Jordan bike ride
Skywire zipline Nelson
Relay race around city walls, Spain
Scuba Goat Island NZ
Big Game Fishing
Open University Degree
Ecuador and Galapagos
Gannet colony Piha
Skiing at Ruapehu
Phillipines
Just memories
Dirty part - smoking Dad’s cigars
Ginger bowls
Falling off bike
Toe caught in wheel
Smashed teeth at rugby
Clearing stones from rugby field
Watching a boy get caned
Milk monitor
Dangerous riding down hill on way to school
Hot black sand
Jumping off jetty at hot baths at night
Fluorescence in sea
Handfuls of jellyfish
Seeing Don Clarke play at Cornwall Park
Toasted sandwiches at Newmarket baths
Injury at baths, swam 6 lengths, Brian fell off
Diving from lower board
Swimming badge at Tepid Baths
Stealing money from Dad’s trousers - got caught
Walnuts for golf balls
Raining on one side of road
Getting caned for fighting with a girl
Prefect
Factory job packing radiograms
Laying concrete
Pharmacy School Petone
Eating competition
Scooter
Tossed in surf
Weta
Disconnecting Speedo in mum’s car
Scratching Dad’s car and drive shaft
Parking up in Cornwall Park and Mt Eden
Sea Scouts
Softball
First XV and bloody nose
Killing chickens
Our dog George
Swimming to Otaramarae
Māori canoe
Sinking bottles in lake
Skin rash from lake weed
Father Xmas sleigh across lake
Honeymoon bay
Trout fishing around the island
La Mascotte
Catching koura
Golf, golf, golf
Te Puke championship
Climbing macrocarpa trees
Sheep dipping
Disturbing pheasants
Sliding down One Tree Hill
Shells on Onnie - Māori?
Quicksand in Bethels stream
Cutting ti-tree
Bee stings
Car crash in Holden
Māori kids diving for pennies
Geyser in Whaka
Ice cream for breakfast
Whitebait fritters
Stew on toast for breakfast - steak on exam day
Climbing up outside of house to get to my bedroom
Sliding car on metal roads
Burger van in Newmarket and Greenlane
Stock car racing
Showgrounds
Machine shop job
Delivering newspapers
Cleaning school
Hike in Titirangi
Panic in mud at Gisborne Jamboree
Peritonitis and abscess
Trolleys in a chain
Fingers in electric socket
Chopping at wood foundation
Cigarette burn on polished table
Trying to heat bath by boiling water on the stove
Bee catching
Walking to Dad’s office
Collecting cicada skins
Eden Park rugby
Waiwera hot pools
My Manganui
Rotorua float parade
Huka falls
Buried village
Blue and Green Lakes
The Queen near Rotorua
Queen mother trout fishing
Allied Industries
Lake Rotorua and Mokoia Island
Fairy and Rainbow Springs
Kelly Tarlton’s Sea Life Aquarium
Helicopter lolly scramble
Digging for tuataras in surf at Pauanui and cockles at Cockle Bay
Climbing Mt Pauanui
Mum teaching me bowls at Pauanui
Seeing Russian satellite
Moon landing
Sex show with a donkey in Panama
Ben and Lucy
Painting roof
Flag day at Cornwall Park School
Seeing General Freyberg
Deliberately burning my arm with a cigarette
Making dams in the flooding kerbs with bare feet
First sex in a caravan
Rolling jaffas down floor in Greenland cinema
Dad winning school raffles and second prize in Australian prize draw
Uncle Doug dying in top dressing plane accident
Spending a month on Waiheke Island with the Hooks family after hospital
Mum smuggling a plant into NZ by wearing it as a flower on her coat
Dad buying the 8 o’clock on Saturdays
Playing tennis in the road
Cracking walnuts
Bruce Gamble
Mavis’s shop at Surfdale
Catching flies with my hands
Drove a tram
PADI licence
Eating competition
Acupuncture
Shotover gorge
Favourite Books
Albania Ismail Kadare Broken April
Australia Murray Ball Eucalyptus
Belarus Svetlana Alexievich Voices from Chernobyl
Iraq Sinan Antron The Corpse Washer
Japan Akira Yoshimura Shipwrecks
Mexico Sofia Segovia The Murmur of Bees
South Korea Min Jin Lee Pachinkoy
USA Cormac McCarthy The Road
USA Barbara Kingsolver Poisonwood Bible
UK Maggie O’Farrell Hamnet
USA George RR Martin Game of Thrones
USA Frank Herbert Dune
Israel Yuval Noah Harari Sapiens
USA Pearl Buck The Good Earth
France Victor Hugo Les Miserables
UK Sebastian Faulks Birdsong
Japan Murakami What I talk About When I Am Running
USA Fannie Flagg Fried Green Tomatoes
UK Richard Llewellen How Green Was My Valley
UK Rachel Joyce The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry
UK Erin Morganstern The Night Circus
UK Christopher Hitchens God is Not Great
