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8<br />
Tuesday <strong>August</strong> 9 <strong>2016</strong><br />
Our People<br />
SELWYN TIMES<br />
Jeremy Brown<br />
Sea-loving Brownie is riding the<br />
<strong>Selwyn</strong> is in the midst of a building boom and<br />
Lincoln builder Jeremy Brown is a big part of<br />
it. He spoke to reporter Tom Doudney about<br />
what led him to start his companies, why he<br />
names his boats after Billy Idol albums and<br />
being a keen fisherman who doesn’t eat fish<br />
Your company is called<br />
Marlborough Homes, how did<br />
it get its name?<br />
I started my first building<br />
company JP Builders in 1993,<br />
when I was 21, and then later on<br />
I went up to do some contract<br />
work in Blenheim for Fowler<br />
Homes. I thought ‘he is getting<br />
the credit for the show home<br />
I built and what am I doing? I<br />
am making him all this money<br />
and I’m the silly builder on<br />
contract!’ So I went out and<br />
formed Marlborough Homes<br />
because no one in Blenheim<br />
had that as their name, which I<br />
couldn’t believe. I formed that in<br />
2004 and it went mad from there<br />
really, and I’ve never looked<br />
back.<br />
When did you bring the<br />
business down to Canterbury?<br />
I will have been here five<br />
years in February. There was<br />
just so much work down here.<br />
Marlborough had sort of dried<br />
up a bit really and I didn’t want<br />
to drop my pants and work for<br />
nothing up there so I came here.<br />
Now I’m absolutely flat out. I’ve<br />
just picked up the Leeston Hotel<br />
as well. We started a month ago<br />
and we’re well under way.<br />
The question the locals will<br />
want to know is when will it be<br />
finished?<br />
I always joke and say 2025.<br />
No, to be honest it’s a 12-month<br />
build.<br />
Do you get a lot of questions<br />
from people who know you’re<br />
building it?<br />
Yeah, heaps, and then I get the<br />
local old boys who seem to turn<br />
up once a week and stand outside<br />
the gate so I go out and have<br />
a chat with them. They can’t<br />
wait. I have met so many locals<br />
out that way who are just itching<br />
to get a pub.<br />
You’re a bit of a fisherman in<br />
your spare time, I hear.<br />
I’m hugely into my fishing and<br />
diving. I’m a member of both the<br />
Canterbury dive club and the<br />
Marlborough dive club, I’ve got<br />
an 8m boat and I go out as much<br />
as I can.<br />
I was told that you don’t<br />
actually eat fish though, is that<br />
right?<br />
That’s right. I will go and catch<br />
it, fillet it and cook it for you and<br />
I will have a little wee piece but<br />
I’m a meat person. When I had<br />
my 12m launch up in Nelson,<br />
I would go out with people for<br />
three or four days and bring<br />
meat on it. I would cook the fish<br />
for them and I’d have steak. The<br />
only thing in the ocean I absolutely<br />
adore is paua and that’s<br />
the one thing most people don’t<br />
like. Weird, eh?<br />
Why do you like fishing then?<br />
MAN AT<br />
WORK:<br />
Builder<br />
Jeremy Brown<br />
is “flat out”<br />
since moving<br />
back to<br />
Lincoln from<br />
Marlborough.<br />
PHOTO:<br />
GEOFF<br />
SLOAN<br />
Fishing is my time out. That’s<br />
where I can switch off – there is<br />
nothing around you, you have<br />
got Mother Nature and you can’t<br />
beat it. I love my diving because<br />
there is a whole world down<br />
there. The world down under<br />
that water just blows my mind,<br />
words can’t describe what I see.<br />
I just think it’s amazing and if a<br />
shark comes along and tries to<br />
bite me, well so be it.<br />
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