we had morning tea on the other side of the river at an unpronounceable place called Paremoremo where the people who used to live in our rental house now live. it’s an absolutely gorgeous place, only marred by its proximity to a broadmoor-like maximum security prison (although it appears not to be that secure – this chap was in prison for crimes against facial hair)
as always we had a really lovely time scoffing cakes and admiring their new view from their deck
at some point we mentioned geocaching which was something they’d hear about but not done, so we walked down to their local wharf to show them how it was done. i suspect they might now also be addicted.
after that we headed over to the beach with just our family so the girls could play with their boogie boards and we could all play frisby. it’s felt a lot colder today because of the Southerly winds (straight off Antarctica) which made frisby more sporting
the other big news of the day is that i managed to finish constructing our barbeque. i did the cooker although jane actually made the burgers with esther i think.
we then road tested it with homemade burgers which tasted ok actually.
now, here’s a question for you guys. i got this bird feeder for xmas but so far it’s been snubbed by the local bird population
how do you ‘prime’ a new bird feeding device to get them interested in our high quality (and free at the point of delivery) bird food ? I came up with the idea of stuffing bread on to the landing places, as we all know birds love bread.
any other ideas would be greatly received !
meanwhile we’re going to have to watch out for spiders attempting to sabotage our bbq
tomorrow we’re hoping to head down to the local rain forest and look at the proper surfers down piha-way which is promising >2metre waves according to the swell maps.
And then in the evening we’ve been invited round to friends for new year. although we’ve all agreed that our unofficial new year will be 10pm so we can all get home to bed before midnight ! I like how they do things over here.
toodle pipkins
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You sound surprised that the burgers were nice
only because i cooked them. i knew the raw inputs to the process were of the highest quality !
It takes birds a while to get used to bird feeders. Are they too far from where the birds usually are? Bread is not good for most birds. It tends to swell up inside them. Pooch
well, whatever you did pooch it worked as the feeder has been over subscribed today. we spotted a bird there first thing this morning, and a few of its friends then joined. by the time we got back from the beach at the end of the day, ALL the seed had gone ! so we’re in business.