Day 43, 44, 45 & 46 – All alone still

Spoke to Tania earlier and it looks like I am going to be home alone for a few more days.  There is a pretty crappy forecast over the weekend with a sub-tropical storm predicted over the north of the country making driving conditions look pretty bad.  You wouldn’t think it looking outside just now.  I have the door wide open and the sun is shining.

So what can I tell you about the last few days?  Very little really.  Got a reply from one of my applications.  Looks like the selection process for that post could carry on into August sometime.

Amazing what a few days peace and quiet can do around here.  The little birdies are back in the garden again.  They might attempt to eat from the new bird-feeder once again.  Stewart and Aidan have apparently built a bird-table so we shall see if that attracts them.

Money.  There’s a strange thing.  Apart from having a lack of it, did you know that New Zealand doesn’t bother with anything less than 10 cents?  The coins that are distributed are $2, $1, 50c, 20c and 10c.  Anything below that gets rounded up or down. e.g. $9.97 would be rounded up to $10 and $9.94 would be rounded down to $9.90.

(Picture: 10c, 20c, 50c, $1)

Yesterday I took a run out and about in the car, picked up Aidan and Tania’s medical history from the doctors and took a couple of photos.  I headed over to Fergusson Park for a look.  Loads of people there enjoying the weather.  I still haven’t got used to seeing people running around in shorts and t-shirts and queuing at an ice-cream van when it is the middle of Winter!

(Picture: Looking North-ish from Fergusson Park)

I was thinking it was about time I did a new Hollywood Poster for this Shetlink thread.  For those of you that don’t know what this is about here is a little explanation.  Somebody came up with the idea of what would Hollywood Posters look like if the films were made in Shetland.  I have contributed quite a few now, and have uploaded them to my CRCShetland site.  Just click on the ‘Next’ link to scroll through them.  I will hopefully have descriptions up soon.  My most recent poster was this one:-

(Picture: Back to the Foo Tour) 

This features Elma Johnson, a prominent tour guide in Shetland, and refers to her appearance in a spoof documentary by John Shuttleworth called, ‘It’s nice up North’.  In it she is shown to enjoy a tipple.  The original title is of course Back to the Future.

So now you get the idea, any suggestions?  It is either that or revive another, similar, thread - Shetland Magazines.  The idea is the same but it is magazines rather than movies that have been produced in Shetland.  My most recent creation for this was:-

(Picture: Penthoose)

This of course relates to the ‘Mens Mag’, Penthouse but looked at from a Shetland angle.  So any ideas?

In other news, I have uploaded the 2005 monthly pics to twabble.blogspot.com

Tata fer noo.