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Welcome to the Broom Bashers website. These pages have been designed to serve as a hub for all helpers and interested parties connected with the Harakeke Game Preserve. At left you will find clickable links to other pages, all self explanetory.  Take a minute or two to explore, and please let me know if you would like to see anything else on here.

It is early days for Harakeke Game Preserve, but we seem to have got off to a great start.  Feedback from our guests has been unamiously good, and it is down to a capable team of beaters and pickers that this is the case!  I am thrilled that the team has bonded so well and taken such an interest in how we develop.  I started writing the
Harakeke Flyer out of neccessity when recruiting helpers, but now the web pages seem like a natural progression to keep  you guys up to date, and to attract further support.

You may be wondering about the lengthy address.  Quite simply, I already pay to host a website of my own, so I am using the same one for these
Harakeke pages.  The website is something I am rather proud of, covering two years of travel as I tried to get to New Zealand without flying.  During that time I carried a laptop and knocked out thirty odd journals from across the globe; including country profiles, links to relavent topics and images.  From working on a tiny island with no cars, where I met my partner Rosie, to crossing Siberia by train, holdidaying with the locals in China, biking into the mountains of northern Vietnam and sleeping in rainforest caves, you are sure to find something of interest!  It was the greatest adventure of my life, and I called it The Wander Years.  You can always find the homepage by clicking here or along the bottom of any of these pages.  Enjoy!
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February 2009
Rosie and I are very upset to report that we are no longer running the Harakeke Game Preserve.  Having worked very hard to provide a successful season, to build a great team of helpers and put in place a plan to develop the shoot - we were finished without notice.  To the many of you who know the people behind the preserve, it will come as no surprise.  Their reputation remains intact.

What do these people stand for?  Certainly not sport, or respect for game, sportsmanship or the people who work so hard to organise the hunting.  In these so called tough economic times, they 'let us go' to save on a couple of months salary.  Thats on the back of having just worked ten months straight without a day off.

Are these guys real Kiwi's?  Certainly not the sort of people I like to be involved with.

Stay in touch.  Rosie and I intend to remain on the game shooting scene, and we hope to keep up with all your news too.  Timo's mobile number is the same old one.....
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The new regular blog - Gamekeeper's Diary
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Tuesday 7th October - images from beater's day 2008

Three new recipes - Click to view!

shoot day on Harakeke, Click to view!

Images of an English Estate, Click to view!
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What's new? Well, Rosie & I are sadly no longer running Harakeke preserve.  With an uncertain economic future in commercial game shooting in this country, and an employer who finds it difficult to lay straight in bed at night - we took our chances and made a run for it!

We are now working hard in the Bay of Plenty, trying to settle into a new life but still remaining very much in touch with the shooting scene.  Timo can still be contacted on his usual mobile number.