Tongariro River Motel’s new Security Management Team above – Tyler & Boof. Boof has been the most prominent part of the management team for the last seven years but is now slowing down. During the last few years guests took Boof walkies – or rather Boof guided them – around the river circuit up to three times a day during the busy season. Now Boof is feeling his age and reduced his trips to once a day so it was time to bring in a new recruit. He is Tyler – donated to the cause by Anthea & Sharn Merwood of Upper Hutt. They stayed at TRM this weekend to make sure Tyler would settle in easily. It took him all of a minute. Boof follows him everywhere in case he misses out on something. Now we will just have to teach Tyler how to poach trout.
Tongariro River Motel Daily Report – January 3rd, 2012
(Above: Jason Arnold and Etham [Batman] Beth & Flynn with Boof)
Boof has been the real star during the holidays and all the wet weather at Tongariro River Motel.
Take yesterday for example. Boof’s first booking was about 7.30 am when he guided Lance & Sonra Sunde from Oratia for a vigorous workout around the river tracks.
Lance tells us that Boof only stopped once to sniff at a log when a rabbit streaked away from underneath. Boof streaked off even faster after it. It was soon caught and humanely “attended to” by Boof (a quick flick of the neck and it was all over) and taken off for a decent burial.
The Sundes were astounded although for Boof this was just another normal morning routine. They suggested Boof deserves a commendation from DoC for removing noxious pests.
They returned about 9am to the waiting Arnold team. Etham (Batman), Beth & Flynn had been anxiously waiting to take Boof walkies down to the park. He was a bit more subdued by then. They took him much further so he was dragging the leash on their return and more than a little weary.
Boof was most impressed by Etham’s Batman uniform. Etham got it from Santa and has worn it ever since…
This was cunning tactics by Dad, Jason Arnold, to wear the kids out before the 4 hour drive to Wellington.
When they returned about 10 am there was the Drake team of five super enthusiastic kids from Woodville waiting to play chase with Boof….
And on it went all day. For the afternoon Boof was hiding trying to find a cool place to recover with his afternoon snooze.
Images of Boof taking Jafa buddies, Dudley and Normandy (Cadogan) around his patch. Wow – were they envious? They are already planning their next trip for Boof to teach them how to stalk trout. Image above was their introductory course.
Tongariro River Motel announce another unique free service –
TRM’s own Special Personal Trainer:
As we all get a bit more mature (aka older, ageing, slower, weary, drooping, tired, forgetful, you know…) ones personal condition factor starts to slide.
OK – we all know that. Whether we admit it or not it is happening. So what can we do about it?
Well finally SWMBO (She Who Must Be Obeyed is TRM’s Manager and everything else) has recognised that She too needed outside professional help. She reckons She has the solution too.
Self discipline was all very well but She needed something more to get Her enthused to start every day with full on PMA (Positive Mental Attitude) and someone with more motivation to get Her out on the Tongariro River Trail (TRT) and then push the pace. (You are going to hear a lot more about the TRT in the next year.)
We won’t talk about drooping waist lines or love handles and saggy things – TRM inmates don’t do all that negative elderly stuff. Now, after several years fighting the bulge and steadily losing the battle, She acknowledges all that She needed was the services of Her own Personal Trainer!
Her specification was daunting. He had to be much younger, good looking, fit, indefatigable, always cheerful and completely positive, never complaining or critical, and – perhaps the biggest ask of all – an extremely cheap Personal Trainer.
Now we have great pleasure in introducing him… Incidentally, this is another FOC (Free of Charge) service for inmates and it costs nothing either. SWMBO promises this is more than just a promotional marketing ruse to fill empty beds at TRM.
This is a unique offer to change the nature and culture of TRM for fishos wives/girlfriends/nieces and make you all young again.
Just imagine, TRM could become a new-age wellness and fitness facility for ladies as much as it is a spiritual retreat for grizzly old fishos. Far too many regular inmates leave their better halves at home so SWMBO hopes this will encourage them to stay longer as well. Once they appreciate the extensive programmes TRM have to offer they can all come fishing more often with a clear conscience. What a marvelous scheme.
Tomorrow we look forward to introducing you to TRM’s special Personal Trainer and his fitness programme for the 2011-2012 summer.
Don’t miss it…
(Continued… Daily Report 30 September…)
Need a Personal Trainer?
Tongariro River Motel Manager SWMBO (She Who Must Be Obeyed) was trying to discover a chink in a niche market to offer an extra sweetener incentive that no other motel would dare provide as TRM’s point of difference. She has been advised this is apparently a very important tool in marketing terms.
So yesterday we announced SWMBO’s bold initiative and exciting new plan to provide a Personal Trainer for guests benefit. A Personal Trainer is supposed to be a coach, friend, taskmaster, torturer, (fly fishing really is a gentle form of enjoyable torture too) and sometimes psychologist. So SWMBO has someone very special in mind.
Usually a Personal Trainer might be described as a fitness professional involved in exercise prescription and instruction. They motivate their clients by setting goals. They may also educate their clients in many other aspects of wellness besides exercise, including general health.
According to SWMBO, Personal Training in women has been shown to exercise behavior patterns, improve perceptual benefit-to-concern ratio for exercise (decisional balance), and increase confidence to choose exercise in the face of other time demands. The involvement of a Personal Trainer is usually to achieve higher strength, higher workout intensities, and higher perceived exertion during exercise.
Their aim for you is to get ahead. But ahead of what?
So you will be relieved to discover that TRM’s specially designed Personal Trainer programme is not concerned with any of that rubbish. His sole aim and entire point of existence is summed up in two words – pure enjoyment.
At TRM that is a far more noble professional Personal Trainer aim for his exclusive club clients than all that JAFA gym inspired fashionable goal setting nonsense.
TRM’s Personal Trainer duties are somewhat different and go well beyond normal levels. More Turangian. No goals. No prescriptions. No warm ups. No warm down exercises. No pilates. No yoga. No stretches. No painful boring exercise routine (apart from moving). His totally flexible programme is to fit in with your holiday life style health and leisure wellness plan. He needs to be available at any time in daylight hours. Additional duties will also include being your absolute best ever confidant and security guard with unconditional loyalty and devotion. You can even cuddle him. You can’t ask for more than that.
So if you haven’t guessed it by now, TRM’s Personal Trainer is Boof…
(Image on right is a Boof wannabe)