Unplanned days ~ surprise!
Smart open top mini sports. Fascia in old world styling, but modern and all eager to go. Lucky to find a parking spot, there is now an app for this.
Mainly well dressed people go about purposefully, but, Parnell has lost its fizz. So many empty spaces for lease, making it harder for the stayers.
Find car ferry, ferry to Half Moon Bay. Arguments with GPS, navigate against Friday traffic, find apartment. Sleep in.
Breakfast, maybe visit city gallery
A bird was there
Late afternoon tide. Cooler but still pleasant. Teenagers, one ball, play volley ball, soccer and play boxing. Boys pick up girls carry to water, squeals.
A lone seagull hops by, scanning for a bite to eat
Pain-au-Raisin on wooden table
Recipe:
Purchase precooked, frozen.
Bounce around in a car boot for a day.
Take for a jaunt on a car ferry.
Delay cooking while those around you, folk passing by, give advice.
Locate oven.
Do knowing bloke talk about Celsius and Farring-Height.
Think of a number, wop doughy globs nearest the element that’s working.
Shut oven door.
Discuss Plan B and locate a cafe that serves pain-au-raisin.
It is an ancient Mariner,
And he stoppeth one of three.
“A cheese and onion toastie Sir?”
Plus flat white, was served to me.
A cafe upstair . Bubbly holiday crowd.
Back car on, wobble wobble. Drive forward to get off.
So far they all speak English.
Auckland city. I have always walked past this corner shop and cafe to my preferred cafe. But there lunchtime was over, expired, gone. So I returned to the cafe on the corner.
The staff member delighted with my thank you for a fine salad. Familiar accent, Rome, a lively conversation and I departed for with a free meal tucked under my arm. “See you again,”I say –
No free salad next time!
Laughter.
When the cafe is breezy
Thank de Lord
But why does my cat want to snuggle up INSIDE the bed
?
Paint splatters, french doors almost complete. Cat a-zizz.
Coffee time.
This afternoon a river swim but, a warning, beware of slow moving warm water, slimes and stuff.
David in Pen and Pics