Thursday, August 27, 2009

playing the waiting game

Took the car into the holden dealers in thames,had a little orange annoying light on the dash,"piece of cake" says the service manager, well if it was a piece of cake who put it there?
Turns out it was a slit pipe that picked up fuel flow so wasn't working too well,never mind it's only money!
While i was killing time we went into town,it didn't take me long to get sick of going into shops so amused myself with looking to see how many cars had expired registrations.
In one section of road i counted 9 cars,6 of them had no reg! Absouletly gaurantee that if one of them was mine a bllody parking warden would have come along and smacked a ticket on the screen!
No bloody justice in this world!

Monday, August 24, 2009

getting lots done

Had a fairly productive morning so far,been for a ride a then managed to do a few repairs around the place,mainly lubricating doors,hinges,padlocks etc. the salty atmosphere gets into anything metallic and rusts real fast.
I've been selling a bit of junk on trademe lately,it's amazing what some people will pay for something that i would normally have thrown out!

Sunday, August 23, 2009

where has the year gone?


August 09!
yikes! where has the year gone! just looked in here and see it was december since my last entry.
Had a great xmas,nice and busy!
We went to Fiji again in march and had a bloody awesome time. the weather was superb and the staff brilliant,we sure love fiji.
Check out my www.webshots.com site for pics. search divaferg.
The highlight for me this year and indeed for my life was my trip to france to watch the Tour De France.Words cannot describe the thrill it was for me.you can see pictures of that here .http://www.flickr.com/photos/whangapouastore/
In June we went up to spend a week with Michele and Graeme at their farm,while we were there we went to have a look at their section that will one day soon house the beach bach,great spot.
At Michele's we did a lot of trail riding,Diane had a ball and managed to get thru the week without major damage!
Winter has been very quiet this year,blame that on the newspapers and talk of recession.
We are counting down the days untill our trip to Vanuatu.Kevin and leslie are travelling with us and we are all soooo looking forward to it.