Greetings once more! Just another little update about our thrills and spills - the excitement of this weekend was the Mighty Ox breaking down on Saturday morning! Disaster! Just as we were gearing up to have a busy weekend of museums and art galleries, we came down a flyover into town, engine stopped and wouldn’t start again. After much beeping from people behind us at the traffic lights (cheers guys, my hazards ARE on), we managed to get a push around the corner and then had to be towed all the way to New Brighton, where the garage was. Of course, in NZ there are no mechanics available at the weekend, so we have spent the entire weekend (from Saturday at about 1pm to 8am this morning) camped out on the road in front of New Brighton Panelbeaters. Cracking fun. Right on a bus route and also on what is apparently a speedway practice road for everyone in the Canterbury area with an oversized and noisy exhaust. And to make matters worse, the public loos were pretty much the worst I had ever seen - complete with vomit in the doorway of the ladies’.
On the up side though, the problem was fixed within half an hour this morning (a new set of points - oh, of course…) and we are now in town again, $200 poorer, ready for registering with temping agencies and then a rapid departure for a campsite and showers! (Having spent Friday night in a car park too, it’s been three days. Oh dear.)
So that’s the latest news. Nick is on the phone as I write, hopefully registering with a specialist Architecture-based recruitment company. We think one or both of us will be working by the end of the week (probably rubbish jobs but at least it will pay something), so things are looking positive for this week. That’s all really! Ta-ta!