Surely this good weather cannot last. On Thursday evening when we finished up the blog it was still very warm at nine pm and whilst typing I was wearing only shorts.
The usual walk started the day and it was so nice and warm we really did not want to do much but just enjoy the weather. We noticed that the anti-booze police gang are encamped over in the Taipa Resort, two police cars and a paddy wagon, or whatever they call it here.
This coming Saturday is the Taipa Auto Spectacular which should be interesting with lots of old cars and all sorts of things are promised.
We did a quick dash in to Kaitaia to visit an electrical company and apart from that not much really hence the long blog from yesterday.
The builder who promised to come on Wednesday has still not arrived so I will give up on him and let Brian sort it out when he gets home in early February.
Whilst researching for yesterdays blog and looking for statistics I noticed that the land mass of New Zealand is about ten per cent larger than the United Kingdom. The United Kingdom has about 63 million or so people whilst New Zealand, at the last count, about 4.2 million people and that is why density of living is not a problem here. Of course in the South Island there is a huge wilderness area where nobody lives and it’s pretty much the same in the United Kingdom in Brixton.
Only about 3.8 million cars are registered in New Zealand which is about the same number of cars on the M25 on a Friday night, or so it seems. However the number of cars registered compared to the populations does seem out of proportion and I cannot find out why unless it’s because so many cars are left lying around (see yesterdays blog) that have not been taken off the register list.
Another amazing sunset tonight, see photos.
