this will start off as a text only post written on my mobile phone from upstairs whilst jane is skyping downstairs. i’ll try a put some photos (and get rid of the superfluous spaces and spelling mistakes) tomorrow when i regain control of the poota ! So here goes:
This morning, sometime over breakfast, we had a power cut. Fairly normal for auckland i understand. However our ‘holiday house’ seems totally reliant on power so we had no running water (hot nor cold), no internet (noooo!) and no ability to automatically open the garage which contained our car. We found the manual release so jane could take the girls to school through the anarchic streets where it was every (wo)man for themselves as traffic lights were out. Meanwhile i stayed at home as we couldn’t work out how to manually lock the garage – and since the internal door is just an unlockable slidey thing it was like leaving the front door open. Thankfully north auckland was renergised at around 9.15 and we got it closed.
Jane then went for a run and i collected my car (at last). It’ll have to go back at some point to have some repainting, but it’s mine for now ! I then went to the park and ride to buy my weekly season ticket for the bus to work. About 25 quid for the week so not bad when you take in to account free parking.
after that jane and i went to a lovely restaurant on the sand a long bay before a walk up and down its golden beaches. a great last lunch with my wife before work starts up again.
Then we picked the girls up – and they went for a very chilly swim in the on site pool.
this evening i went to our potential new church’s men’s group which consisted mostly of pool tables, darts, ps3 games, poker and some kiwi tucker. And then an amazing talk by a maori gang leader who is now a christian. Quite amazing stuff. Here’s his website and here’s a photo of him
I got home just as jane was tuning in to a skype conversation so i’ve no idea what she’s been up to.
Crazy kiwi connection of the day: met a chap at the church thing whose wife is best friends with a person in my old department at Sky who i did lots of work with !
Tomorrow we’re meeting some strangers at one tree hill (u2 wrote a song about the place if that means anything) and them some general mooching. Weather forecast looks good.
See ya
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2 responses to “last lunch and a manly supper”
I was thinking you must start work soon:
Holiday over: Now to find out what NZ is really like.
Hope all goes really well, and folks are good to you as you shake in.
Prayes will follow you.
Gilbert and Sullivan’s “The Sorcerer” contains the line “…I often roll down One Tree Hill!”
It has no NZ connection, so where is there one in London where it is set
Love toyou all
R
Hi Dave, Good luck with your new employment on Monday. Lyndsey and I are really enjoying your daily updates by the way. Regards Steve
ps On a previous post you mentioned that NZ was trapped in a time warp. If that is the case perhaps they can remember when Reading FC last won a match !!!!!