Day 39, 40, 41, 42 – Eek, another 4 day post

I think I am going to have to stop posting the day numbers as it is just confusing me and really has little bearing on what has been going on since we got here.  We’ll see.

So, I suppose that there is loads of stuff to tell you since I last posted?  Nope, not really.

As Aidan and I were leaving the garage the other day he let it slip that, ‘Mom had scraped the side of the garage door reversing out the other day.’  As I paused, had a rethink, did I hear correctly, ‘What?’  Upon stopping the car, getting out and then noticing the black mark on the bumper and a similar mark on the wall, I realised that I had indeed heard correctly.  She kept that one bloody quiet!!  No real damage done though, more a scuff than anything else.

Speaking of the car, we have done over 1000km since we got it and it is still running.  That can’t be a bad sign.  The mileage will have gone up quite a bit now as Tania and Aidan have driven off to Russell with it.  Turns out that a tornado hit a little West of them earlier in the day when they were driving up.

This leaves me home alone for the week!  Peace, quiet, silence, doors & windows opened without fear of spiders creeping in, telly to use as monitor and music to be played without headphones being a requirement!

I have been left a few tasks to complete while they are away which I think I am managing all by myself.  Get rid of the rather large spider in the bathroom:-

Hoover – done, washing – done, tidy-up – done.  Tania had informed me that, “Their should be enough for a white-wash”.  What’s that then?  I was of the understanding that a white-wash was something you did to a house that needed painting.  Seemed a waste of time to separate out all these clothes when the machine has a thing called mixed load.  A mixed load was exactly what I had, in it went.

On Sunday I decided to go for a little drive to scope out possible photo-taking opportunities when the weather improved.  I ended up out at Te Puna, in between the showers the weather wasn’t too bad.  The showers were heavy enough to put a car off the road I had been driving along.  It paid off though, I found a spot that should be good for getting a better pic in the future.

(Picture: Mount Maunganui from Te Puna)

Nothing to report on the job front apart from some more people saying they have nothing going at the moment.  My P45 along with my payslip turned up on Monday.  You have to love the guys at my previous employment for their strange yet endearing sense of humour:-

(Picture: Sir Craig Robertson OBC BAR – Address deliberately obfuscated)

I am sure you are all concerned that I am eating correctly and looking after myself properly while the rest of the family are on a jaunt up north.  To allay your fears I thought I would take a photograph of the culinary delight that I had for my tea last night.  This is proper man food, none of your namby-pamby pasta or such-like nonsense.  This is the culinary delight otherwise known as, “Wattie’s Big N’ Hearty Beef & Beer Soup with a side plate of Waikato Draught”.

(Picture: A meal fit for a King)

In other news, I have managed to get the monthly pics for 2004 uploaded over at www.twabble.blogspot.com

That’s all for now folks!