Saturday 22nd November- Guest's are coming tonight

We did our early morning walk, I say early as it was more like 0930, and then headed back to the house for a big English style breakfast. We noticed that some shell diggers were out and no doubt looking for all sorts of live encrustations for later enjoyment.

In the interim we had learnt that the Police who do the alcohol testing have a great life travelling all over the North Island and staying in nice hotels and then spending a few hours doing some testing. They then head back to the hotel for a few beers.

Anyway, after breakfast we started working on preparation for some friends of Brian & Sheila’s we had previously met Robin and Lorraine. Robin is a Brit and used to work at Thames TV in London whilst Lorraine is a trained nurse and they met in London some years ago but have returned to NZ.

Anyway we enjoyed the evening very much and Jennifer made a Lancashire Hot pot with real new Zealand mutton and that went down very well indeed as did the wine.

We have been thinking about driving up to Cape Reina, the northernmost part of New Zealand, but we have been advised that and organised coach trip on the sand it by far the best way to appreciate the journey as the main road is being repaired NZ style. So we will plan this for when the weather is better.