not much to report from me today. was quite chilly walking up the hill to work, but that was fine as i had my warm coat on. my car thermometer said 7 degrees this morning and apparently it’ll get much colder, but probably not for long.
it’s a bank holiday weekend which means lots of busyness on the roads. the police are being really strict about speeding so have introduced a 4% rule rather than the usual 10% tolerance on speed limits and they’ll be out in force with their speed guns. exciting stuff.
And Auckland now has super powers as the various bi
And Auckland now has super powers as it got turned in to a Super City this week thanks to government merging the various parts of it in to one.
some people didn’t like that, especially those who live on the nice bits beyond the edge of the stinky bits so they decided to have a protest and do a big blockade if the main motorway to annoy people heading out of town for the long weekend.
this being new zealand they weren’t very good at being annoying and actually caused the traffic to flow better by slowing everyone down to a sensible speed ! little bit more here
the girls had a good day at school and their photos were shown in assembly along with everyone else’s. swimming was good and jane had a nice time with her ladies group and jolly friends. there was cake involved.