At last!

 A mostly nice warm day!!

I got my road bike today and rode over to the velodrome to watch and help with the training session...on the way back I'm sure that the hill.up.to the house wasn't so big last time...!  

But that was after I went out with my friends for their shopping and coffee for all in a huge DIY megastore...orange and white, same colours as the one in Britain!

Could be some inspiration here...

Whanganui wanderings

 And at last after a few weeks of Southerlies, we have summer! 29⁰ at 5 o'clock.this afternoon 

Monday morning

 After a good night's sleep 

Sunday 5 January

 You arrive just before lunchtime...first stop coffee! 

It was good to meet a friend who was a student lodger in my parents house in the 60s...whom I eventually met up with again in 2017 when Pirate and me rode the World Masters Games in NZ !! 

Only him, as his wife was at a bird sanctuary but it was a chance to catch up again, and have a walk to a Sculpture park nearby..They hadn't been out to it either as living in Titirangi you don't just pop into the area around the airport for fun!! But five minutes or so from the Domestic Terminal is a Sculpture Park...a small lake, trees, birds and grassy spaces. Just beautiful.

A picnic lunch by the lake then walk to the terminal..the international one has changed and expanded greatly..and the domestic one is due for work to bring it nearer..but it is not a bad walk, following the green painted line on the ground..a brilliant Idea!

Interesting carpet design...

Then an hour's flight on AirChatham's Saab340...inflight water, tea or coffee, a Tim Tam and a sweet..just right.