Brian had recommended his physiotherapist following his knee surgery and so I made an appointment to see her this morning. The practise is in a smallish house up on the hills at Cooper's Beach overlooking the sea and a great place to view the scenery from the massage table. When I arrived she asked me to fill in the details of my accident?? What accident I said, she said you must have had an accident to qualify for the low cost and so I indicated that I twisted my knee whilst going down Brian’s house drive. Great that saved me NZ 70.00.
A quick poke around in my knee and some exercise advice followed and I was up and off and to return next week for more of the same.
I went gingerly home and felt not bad and so we went for a walk along the beach and stopped at the Taipa Bay Resort, nice place this( www.taipabay.co.nz), for a cup of tea and cake. The weather was a bit grey but it did not rain and so we headed home looking at the small amount of shops in Taipa. We have also been recommended to go to the only cinema in the area which is out of Taipa by a few miles called the ‘Swamp Palace’ apparently its well known and with only 68 seats and a complete film introduction by the cinema owner, it could be an experience but unfortunately its not open again until 17 th December. It must be quite an important place as it is marked on the NZ map.
This evening Noel cooked up a couple of steaks which we had purchased from the local butcher and settled down with a glass of wine and watched the amazing sunset, see photos.
The premiership football was on tonight and so I watched the Man U game and also Chelsea beat Blackburn 2.0 It was pouring with rain and I understand that they almost
stopped the game as the ref could not see the linesman on the far side of the pitch..Tomorrow it should be warmer and 22 degrees centigrade is promised for our neck of the woods and so we are going in to Kaitaia for some shopping and then we will do some touring around.
A Noel Moan
On Saturday I set up a payment with Lloyds Bank for the final payment to the house builder. When checking on Sunday that all was Ok I received a message that I should receive a phone call within 72 hours to confirm that the details were correct. So when contacting my answer-phone on Monday I had received the call which I returned. After having given them my name, Account and Sort Code, mothers name, my security code, address, what credit cards I have with Lloyds Bank and the last transaction, the colour of my hair, the make of car and colour and registration plate and also my wife's name etc etc, they said it would be fine, all I had to do was to login after ten minutes and approve the payment which I did, only to find I was being advised that I had no access to my account and to call this number. Which I did only to find they were closed until 0800. So at o8.30 UK time I called them and gave them name, Account and Sort Code, mothers name, my security code, address, what credit cards I have with Lloyds and the last transaction, the colour of my hair, the make of car and colour and registration plate and also my wife's name etc etc they agreed to let me into my account. These phone calls cost lots of money and although I told them I was calling from New Zealand the Lloyds lady said she had been there and how nice it is in Kent!!!
