A Fiat 132!
A rare, even when new, survivor
Robin Capper
A Kiwi, but not a flightless bird or brown fuzzy skin green centred fruit. Humanist, Skeptic, Cyclist, Car Enthusiast, Westie Auckland Tāmaki Makaurau, Aotearoa New Zealand | he/him
Memories of Antarctica
How you never escape
Frankie in the engine bay #DumbCatSmartTag
Bizarre Frankie, the inherited #cat, story. Have collar with name tag & #smarttag as still roams to visit old home about 1km away. He arrived home without collar/tag, is designed to release, not strangle. I tracked to a neighbour's SUV, on their drive, it 'beeped'
March 2023 - 19th Anniversary!
March 31st means it is blog’iversary time. Nineteen years since that first tentative post! I really appreciate the connections blogging, and more recently on Mastodon (since I abandoned Twitter) & Facebook, have enabled. @robincapper on Twitter Won't delete this account but I've made it private
Missing Greg at the Hokitika Wildfoods Festival 2023
I'm not there
Time Out Drive/Cycling Exploring New Zealand 2021 - 2022
Ten months exploring New Zealand
My last Car?*
I just cancelled my print subscription to Car (magazine U.K.). I have been buying it monthly, one way or another, since February 1979. It was probably the Fiat 131 Racing on the cover which first got 13-year-old Robin’s attention, but the contents had me hooked. ** It's
Web/Tech
I offended Microsoft Bing's Chat 'artificial intelligence'
I asked the new Bing AI chat about me. "What is the new Bing? The new Bing is like having a research assistant, personal planner, and creative partner at your side whenever you search the web. With this set of AI-powered features, you can: Ask your actual question. When
My photo in "The Conversation"
I like 'The Conversation' website and get the NZ edition weekly email newsletter. Read it today and thought a photo, on an article about arts funding, looked a bit like one I took in Auckland Art Gallery. Clicked on the link to find they had picked up my
A wonderful Antarctic Sketchbook and Blog
Clicked on a LinkedIn comment, on a post by a CAD world connection, and thought I recognised an Antarctic location in the profile header photo. A web search soon had me at Margaret Plumley's lovely sketchbook from a trip similar to my 2019 Dr Karl Expedition. Her blogs
Cycling to look at the new electric and hybrid Italians
The Fiat 500e, but not yet the Abarth 500e, is just being launched in NZ. I got an email invite from Andrew Sims who had the 500e press preview car for test drives today (Sat Feb 11) & tomorrow prior to the Autumn public release. Decided not to waste their
Congratulations Adventure South, 30th Anniversary!
So true, I didn't write the script for this video, but could have because experienced it... Congratulations on thirty years Adventure South NZ, who I've travelled with since 2003.