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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

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