Saturday, March 07, 2009

Friday 6th of March - Time to get organised

We need to sort out all our ‘stuff’ and also do some shopping whilst Noel needed a haircut as he could not see any more.

We drove into Kaitaia to do some shopping and Noel lost his hair. This was a proper barber he must have weighed twenty stones, did not stop talking about his life not being affected by customers and then took eight minutes to cut Noel’s hair for about £ 5.00. It looks ok really, Jennifer commented, providing I partly close my eyes and look away.

We visited the car hire company to make arrangements for dropping off the car next Monday as Brian has to visit Kerikeri on early Monday afternoon but we found out that the hire car company has a airport drop off. It’s a small world as when we were talking to Brian about Archibald Motors, from whom we hired the car, Brian said that Mr Archibald lives across the other side of the inlet from where we were staying. We mentioned that over the past few months that we were staying in Taipa occasionally we would talk to this guy with his dog and low and behold it turned out to be Mr Archibald himself.

Later in the day we received a call from neighbours who were interested in buying all our camping equipment. We made a quick trip over to their house and they were happy to buy the tent etc at a mutually acceptable price which was good.

The film festival continued and so we visited the Swamp Palace again to see a New Zealand made film about trying to win a car by keeping your hands on it all the time until you could not stand. It was sort of Ok but not the best film in the world but quite amusing really. It was supposed to be a true story??

And so to bed.