Not a lot going on today, Noel caught up with some paperwork and Blogs and also fiddled with some photographs otherwise it was a pretty much unconstructive day.
On the news was an interview with the darling of American Politics Mr George W Bushy who uttered the immortal phrase to the waiting reporters that during his reign he had often been ‘missunderestimated’. What sort of word is this?
He was also saying that in his last few years that one of the biggest disappointments was not finding weapons of mass destruction in Iraq. What sort of comment is this, he was disappointed, surely he should have said pleased.
Anyway, the weather was a bit changeable today, one minute it was bright and sunny and the next it threatened rain but we had considered having fish and chips from the local shop.
Noel had looked on the internet about ‘the best fish and chips in New Zealand’ to see if there was one near us, but not so. Actually the best fish and chip shop in New Zealand, according to a recent poll/competition is one in Lyttelton on the outskirts of Christchurch and guess what, it’s owned by a Chinese couple.
We had a choice of two fish and chips shops, one the self-called ‘The world famous Mangonui Fish shop’ or the ‘Fish Shop’ at Coopers beach which we finally elected to go to.
So we purchased our Blue Nose (fish of the day) and one portion of chips and headed off, after a ten minute wait whilst they cooked it, to a little park with seats overlooking the bay to eat them. We were equipped with utensils and Tartar Sauce, napkins and a hunger.
As soon as we opened the packet seagulls from around the bay started arriving and sitting quietly watched us for a good fifteen minutes to see if we would feed them as well, no luck here.
Then it started to spit with rain and then a little harder and so we sat in the back of the Previa and finished them off. I must say they were really excellent and so we will return
Rather than rush home we took a trip through Mangonui and the ‘Famous’ fish and chip shop was packed to the gunnels with a huge queue so we were glad with our decision to go to Coopers Beach.
