Wednesday, December 10, 2008

Monday and Tuesday 9/10 December 2008- A bit of everything

I am being a bit lazy by combining two days, but we did not do much on Monday except a normal walk and then watch more football on TV. There was quite a heavy rainstorm overnight on Sunday which left nice weather for Monday for our usual 4 km walk.

The car, Brian’s Toyota Previa MPV, has been booked in for its WOF, the UK equivalent of an MOT. So we departed for Kaitaia and left the car at the garage while Noel had his haircut, we also looked in the camping shop to check on some prices.

We had lunch in a little CafĂ© with Robin who had accompanied us, Noel had a toasted cheese and ham sandwich which he said was the best he’d had for some years and we shared a plate of what they call ‘wedges’. When Dominos deliver wedges it is usual to have a small amount and they leave you to decide the sauce you want but here, it was covered with sweet chilli sauce with sour cream. Sounds horrible but it tasted really great but rather fattening and there was more than enough for the two of us. Robin had the Nacho’s which we also tried and were very good.

The car failed the WOF due to a very small crack in the windscreen and so now we have to chase up the AA insurance to get this sorted so that we can re do the WOF prior to it expiring in a couple of weeks time.

The school term is coming to an end and next Tuesday all the schools break up for their annual summer holiday. As a result the last week at school is all about activities. We have seen the older kids out in canoes and also dinghy sailing which is quite amusing to watch from our balcony. Some of the kids are quite good whilst others are better at going backwards then the preferred route.

A latish night watching another episode of ‘Life on Mars’’ but we have to be up early on Wednesday as the builder is coming tomorrow morning at 0830 he says, lets see?, and the car glass people coming to check if the glass can be repaired or needs to be changed.

So it looks like another exhausting day tomorrow in the sun.