Mid June and the temperatures drop, the rain did ease for a five day stretch and threw us Aucklanders into a eurphoric moment!
Almost bringing the pansy’s back to life! Sunny days meant temperature drops at night – almost down to zero when I left for work at 5am earlier this week…but just in time for the weekend, we are back to crying skies and wet feet!
Six weeks ago I was lamenting about the rain, not much has changed…except we have hit a few milestones…
Jaxon (my second offspring) turned 30 and we had a bus trip to Orewa (all of 10 minutes), a pub crawl (three) and back to wake up the cottage for a long overdue bash inside its tiny walls!
Mud play for the grand baby at kindy – mudpits replacing sandpits these days, was due to see this little man this weekend but the dreaded “C” has hit their family again and they are staying put!
Dan, George and I and the other mate or two of Dans when needed, have been giving one of my flats a makeover after 17 years of the same Tennant….weekends only, cleaning, painting, repairs, carpet, tiles- everything actually! So yay 7 day weeks for me I’m up and at it again this morning!
The work (of various kinds) was broken up with a three day roady to Whanganui – giving Huntley (the public toilets) a brief visit…
Some trains still run in Rural NZ, and along with charity shops, food and convenience stops and….the roady was stretched to a nine hour journey on the Friday of the first ever (in my lifetime) Kings Birthday holiday weekend!
Saturday saw a catch up with my old work colleague, market day, and family day and (delivered in the mail 2 weeks later) a $65 parking ticket for overstaying a 180minute car park by half an hour! I guess revenue collecting is nation wide with local councils as they get restructured for the hundredth time!!! Tongue in cheek!
Sunday found us on another Roady….
South East from Whanganui to Fairleigh – markets and antique shops! Say no more! Determined not to sit for another 9 hours in the car on the return journey, we were on the road home by 7.30am – one comfort and breakky stop at Taumarunui and a very wet stormy drive on the homeward (Waikato) strait!
6.5 hours and home in time for afternoon tea – only to find, on dropping some things to my cottage that the lowlife have been in action, since Jaxon’s Birthday bash and this time (two weeks later) someone has decided to remove, from behind my cottage and my shed…a kayak, a full tank of petrol for the boat (very kindly left the empty one) fishing rods, life jackets and my two (pop and Noel) garden gnomes!!! I know the price of everything has gone up but really what are they going to get if they sell my old stuff!!!!
Then Work, eat, sleep , renovate….it begins again
A small treat as my eldest took me out for lunch yesterday – an Orewa Colada! As we crank into a weekend of renovations!!!
All who wander are not Lost girls 