Icelandic horses in New Zealand

Here is some handy information if you are interested in seeing some Icelandic horses here in New Zealand:

A letter from Jennie Boerema of Icelandic Horses New Zealand:

Good Afternoon,

 

A couple of weeks ago we gave a demo with two of our Icelandic Horses on the Scandinavian festival in Auckland, together with Kenneth Husted and his horses.

 

Over there we met some members of the New Zealand Icelandic Society and received a card from your Society with your contact details. Some of the members were really happily surprised to meet the horses from their home country Down Under!

 

We are owning and breeding Icelandic Horses in New Zealand since 2003. That year we emigrated from the Netherlands to New Zealand and since we are pasionate about the Icelandic Horse, there was no doubt about bringing with us two of our younger horses. We are owning and breeding Icelandics already since 1984.

Two years ago we imported our Iceland born and bred mare through Denmark and last year our first foal to our young stallion was born; Áki frá Skógarrönd.

 

Every other month I send around a Newsletter to people interested/owning an Icelandic Horse in New Zealand and Australia (see underneath), with information on Icelandic Horses around the world.

Next year we try to organise a tour to Iceland with a riding course at Hólar University.

 

If you are interested in receiving our Newsletters, please let us know.

If you organise an activity where the horses would fit in, we are happy to discuss the posibilities with you for giving a demo.

 

Kind Regards,

 

Jennie Boerema

Skógarrönd LTD.

Icelandic Horses New Zealand

E-mail: skogarrond@slingshot.co.nz

 

BREEDERS / OWNERS:

 

North Island:

 

Nedri Bakki Icelandic Horses

Kenneth Husted & Snejina Michailova:

k.husted@auckland.ac.nz

www.icehorse.co.nz

 

Lukka Icelandic Horses

Petra Packheiser:

ran@xnet.co.nz

www.icelandichorsesnz.com

 

Skógarrönd Ltd

Jennie Boerema

skogarrond@slingshot.co.nz

see also www.rarebreeds.co.nz

 

 

South Island:

 

Richard and Christel Vinbrux:

vinbrux@xtra.co.nz

www.icelandichorses.co.nz

 

***Scandinavian Festival***

Have you registered for the Scandinavian festival yet?

There is still time! We are hoping to see as many of our regulars as possible, and would love to meet up with with any newcomers too.

Our AGM will be held on Friday night, March27th, somewhere at the Parklane hotel. At this stage we hope to tie the meeting in with pre-dinner drinks and a dinner or takeaways.
I plan to put up a notice in the hotel foyer, and at our stand at the racecourse as well.

If you are not going to be present, but have items you wish to have discussed at the AGM, feel free to forward them to me or Viv.

See you in Auckland!

See the link for the Scandinavian festival to the right, or Click here to go to the site..

Stórasta landið í heimi..

Mig langaði bara að deila með ykkur smávegis..
Ég efast ekki um að þið séuð öll að fylgjast með ástandinu á Íslandi eins og við hér. Ég fékk þessa söngtexta senda í síðustu viku (takk María) :) En það er mikilvægt að hella sér sér ekki í eintómar áhyggjur og því er ég að setja þetta hér inn :) Svo eru líka tvö myndbönd hér sem ég mæli með að þið skoðið.

Nýr texti við lagið söknuð með Villa Vil

Mér finnst ég varla heill né hálfur maður
Og heldur blankur, því er verr
Ef væri aur hjá mér, væri ég glaður
Betur settur en ég er

Eitt sinn verða allir menn að borga
Eftir bjartan daginn kemur nótt.
Ég harma það, en samt verð ég að segja,
að lánið fellur allt of fljótt.

Við gátum spreðað, gengið um,
gleymt okkur í búðunum.
Engin svör eru við stjórnarráð
Gengið saman hönd í hönd,
Saman flogið niður á strönd.
Fundið stað, sameinað beggja lán.

Horfið er nú hlutabréf og lánsfé
Í veski mínu hefur eymdin völd
Í dag ræður bara sultarólin
Nú einn ég sit um skuldavönd

Eitt sinn verða allir menn að borga
Eftir bjartan daginn kemur nótt.
Ég harma það, en samt verð ég að segja,
að lánið fellur allt of fljótt.

Ég horfi yfir bankann minn
Hugsi hvort hann hleypi mér inn
Ég alltaf gat treyst á þig
Í að fjármagna mig
Ég reyndar skulda allstaðar
Þá napurt er, það næðir hér
og nístir mig.





Nýji texti við ísland er land þítt

Ísland var land mitt, ég aldrei því gleymi,
Ísland í gjaldþroti sekkur í sæ,
íslensku krónun í banka ei geymi
við íslenska hagkerfið segi ég bæ,
Ísland í erfiðum tímum nú stendur
Íslenska stjórnin hún failar margfallt
Íslenski seðillinn er löngu brenndur
Ísland er landið sem tók af mér allt



Takk æðislega fyrir flatköku uppskriftirnar Sif :) við prufum fljótlega og látum vita hvernig gengur.. *Það er hægt að sjá þær fyrir neðan síðasta sem var skrifað í ''Comments'' :)

Spring in New Zealand.. and Recipes..

Happy Spring! This is just a quick post to remind us all that this website is here ;) And to let you know we'd love to hear from you.. Do send us your pictures and/or stories.

We have just returned to New Zealand after ten weeks in Iceland, where we experienced the hottest summer ever recorded! hoping for a hot one here in New Zealand as well...

I also wanted to let you know that if there is anything in particular that you are missing.. we have found many substitutes for the Icelandic foods here and are happy to share them with you.. for example a recipe for Remolaði/Remoulade and the closest we've found to 'Pylsu sinnep' is 'fine wholegrain mustard' also recipes for making Graflax and Graflaxssósa.. And as of quite recently, we can now get strong salty hard candy /sterkur brjóstsykur from pack'n'save! -And if you visit any asian food warehouse, they will have fried onion/steiktur laukur which is pretty much exactly the same as in Iceland (and to think, for so many years we had packets sent over in the post..)

Do send requests if there's anything you're looking for.. We recently had great success making Asíur/pickled cucumber and Rauðkál/pickled red cabbage..

But now I have a request for you.. does anyone know how to bake flatkökur/flatbread ?
We have tried a few times but never got it quite right, it becomes a sort of sticky-smoky-mess with the oats and water.. any help would be greatly appreciated :)

That's it for now.. Keep in touch and comment here.. We have found a new Icelandic family as well, that has been living here for a long time and didn't know about the Icelandic society, so let's spread the word when we can :)

And.. Congratulations on the Silver at the olympics!! did you all watch the games?
There was a big gathering here in Christchurch.. we are so proud :)

*in case you didn't know.. there's also the wonderful website www.nammi.is

PS: þetta var að koma frá Ingó.. Mjög sniðugt:

Datt í hug að fólk hefði kannski áhuga á að skrá sig hér. Rakst á þetta fyrir tilviljun um daginn.

http://www.iceland.org/cn/islenska/islendingar-i-kina/islendingaskra/

Kv. Ingó

Til hamingju með 17 Júní!

Kæru Íslendingar til hamingju með afmæli lýðveldisins. Þótt höf og álfur skilji að okkur íslendingana sem búum á Nýja Sjálandi þá er sálin svo sannarlega alltaf heima á Fróni á þessum merkis degi.

Oft höfum við Íslendingarnir hérna á suðureyju fagnað þessum degi saman, ekkert formlega heldur bara hist og borðað kjarngóðan íslenskan mat, en þetta árið eru svo margir frá Suðureyju í Víking að ekkert hefur orðið af neinni samkomu. Þá spilar líka inn í að þennan dag ber upp á þriðjudegi. En við fjölskildan erum í hátíðarstemningu og ætlum að borða lambalæri með brúnuðum kartöflum og rauðkáli í kvöld Við höfum líka fengið þetta ekta 17 júní veður í dag, smá riggningarsudda og það skemmir nú ekki.

Ég hef fengið fyrirspurnir varðandi þorrablótin okkar hér fyrir sunnan en þau hafa bara orðið til þegar einhver framtakssamur skipuleggur þau og svo skiptir fólk með sér verkum varðandi að útvega og vinna matföng , en næst þegar að það gerist er upplagt að vera í sambandi á þessari síðu, því kanski vilja fleiri taka þátt. En kæru landar, endilega reynum að vera í góðu sambandi.
Áfram Ísland! Bestu kveðjur Emma

Concert in Christchurch - Tónleikar

Hello everyone! Just to let you know there is a concert coming up here in Christchurch - see the poster here below (click for a larger version) or click here for the facebook event..

Let us know if you have any event coming up or if you have news to put here on the site..
Do keep in touch :) xox

Sigrún Edda skrifar

Hi everyone.

I think Hera has done very well setting up this blogspot for us, many thanks for all the work!
Anyway, my name is Sigun Edda Crowe, and I’m the president of the Icelandic Society here in the North Island. It has been going for 21 years now, I believe we had our first proper meeting in Taupo in 1987.

The Icelanders here in the North Island live all over the place, and we make a point of getting together once a year, usually the first weekend in March.
We take turns at organising the reunions, and they have been held in many places, and mostly in motor camps. These reunions are mostly for family fun, and apart from all the catching up and talking, we make a point of having a soccer game on the Saturday, and then a combined barbecue on the Saturday night.
Everyone is welcome, just watch this blogspot, or, if you are on the address list you will be contacted directly by who ever is doing the organising. If you are not on the contact list, feel free to get in touch with me and I will add your name to it.

Our next reunion will be held in Auckland, the last weekend in March 2009. We are going to join in with the biannual Scandinavian meeting, for the very first time.
These Scandinavian meetings have been going for a long time, as the Danes, Norwegians, Finns and the Swedes have a lot longer immigration history here than us.
There are mixed feelings among our members regarding this. We have been invited to join in the past, but have resisted on the grounds that we are so few, and we feared we would simply get lost in the crowd.
However, we have now elected to give this a go as a one-off, and see if it suits us. Thorbergur, Siggi and Ingi in Auckland have been representing the Icelandic Society on the planning committee, and I’m sure they will keep us informed. Thorbergur is also looking at suitable accommodation so that we can all stay together, and probably have our very own party/reunion on the Friday night.

There are considerable costs involved in being a part of this Scandinavian meeting, which is a bit of a bummer ! We have never had any membership fees, and therefore no money in the kitty. This is the reason we elected to instigate our $50 annual membership fee, to kick-start a fund.

I can understand that the Icelanders in the South Island feel this Auckland meeting has no benefits for them, but bear in mind that if we decide to continue to be a part of the Scandinavian Club, future meetings will also be held in the South Island.

The other project in hand is a donation of a ribbon from the NZ Icelandic Society to the Mooring Stone in Parliament. The approx cost of this ribbon is $200.

I’m asking those who are not willing to share in the cost of the involvement with the Scandinavian meeting in 2009, to at least contribute $20 towards the ribbon.
Our bank account details are
Westpac
Account name NZ Icelandic Society
Account number 03 1545 0063831 00