We had planned to spend the day at Tawharanui today, but the weather wasn’t looking too great. And I spotted there was an A&P Show on at Warkworth which is on the way to Tawharanui.
So we headed there first
and ‘a&p’ show is an agriculture and produce show. A bit like a country fayre in england
complete with craft competition with vegetable animals, livestock showing, kids egg and spoon races etc All great fun.
here’s a rabbit that was happy to lie on its back (even when the lady removed her hands from its ears)
the compere was our favourite celebrity Te Radar who we seem to be stalking at the moment (jane and i went to his history show on thursday night and we saw him in ‘The Twits’ as a family in December). the girls were delighted to meet him and he was very nice so that’s all good!
one highlight was the sheep racing
and some cute alpacas
it was still a bit windy and a little chilly in the shade, but we thought we’d risk going over to tawharanui so we did
the girls got their wet suits on and spent an hour body boarding. there weren’t huge amounts of waves, but they managed to catch a few good ones
it was pretty busy (for new zealand), but then it is a public holiday weekend
although there was plenty of spare space on the next bay if we were that worried
oh, and remember that ship jane posted yesterday? it’s front page of the weekend paper today (not my picture, but the same boat). you saw it here first!
and finally, here’s some woodchoppers (neither won the competition, and the chap behind had to change axe half way through)