Wednesday 21 January- Kerikeri shopping

It was quite a pleasant day as we left for Kerikeri. No walk this morning as we decided to watch the Obama Inauguration on TV and particularly the parade which the Americans are usually very good at.

So we waited and waited and just as the parade was about to get under way, after the Obama’s had done their little walkabout, we had to leave home to meet Robin and head for Kerikeri.

After Robin had dropped his watch in to the repairers Jennifer briefly visited a dentist as she thinks she may have damaged a tooth but they could not see her today. As it is not hurting in anyway she may just leave it for a while.

The Posh Nosh café was pretty much packed but the food is worth waiting for albeit there was a delay to Robins when they admitted they (the chef) had dropped it on the floor and it need a wash to clean off the dirt and then re-heat. No not quite but they had to create a new plate for him.

We decided to visit the very good looking butcher called Churchill’s, we bought a selection of steak, ribs, sausages and chicken breasts. It all looked very good indeed and they have a huge choice of products. No wonder the place was busy.

After shopping at New World, (we needed to buy some stuff to replace what we have used at the house), we headed off to the Makana Chocolate factory.

This is quite a small operation where all the chocolates are made by hand by a small handful of people. You are able to watch them behind a plate glass window. They have only two shops with one in Kerikeri and the other one down south at Blenheim in the Marlborough wine district. For women this shop is ‘sex in heaven’ and they have a great selection and as we arrived they were giving away sample Chocolate Ginger bonbons which immediately felled Jennifer and so that was one pack. We also bought Macadamia Orange Biscotti which Noel likes and also some for our hosts to replace those that they had left in the house.

We arrived back in time to watch the last bit of the Obama’s attending the ten balls and dancing the light fantastic, actually a very, very slow shuffle.

The steak we cooked was excellent and our friend Gerry from along Wey Road would have been impressed I am sure.

We watched the end of a Yugoslavian film on TV, very sad, and were just about to turn it off but Noel always wants to know what film is on next that he will miss as he goes to bed.

So the opening credits came along showing Ealing Films, we thought that this must be an old comedy film, but it turned out to be a film called ‘I want Candy’.

It stars Carmen Electra and a host of other unknowns. It’s about two students who end up making a porn movie for a school film competition and as a result get thrown out of school but win an award. It’s very funny indeed and was actually filmed at Brooklands College Weybridge. All details are on the IMDB data base.

So it turned out to be a late night but worth staying up for and perhaps the funniest film we have seen for quite some time.