Daily Archives: 2012-07-20

SwimGym

By the time I’d done the feeding and walking etc and the Friday shopping it was 2:00pm. Well, then there was the hour and a bit that Aiden from Airnet (I do hate their new name, NOW) came and tried out an ADSL modem – same as we had in the Days Bay flat – but despite trying intercepting the phone line at various places the result was very slow and randomly no access, much worse than I have using the wireless to TeMata Peak. But apparently Sam Deller, one of the founding brothers, remembers me as one of their very first domestic customers and so he tries to find ways to make my service even better.

The shopping spree was not just for food – in fact that bit went quickly. First I went to a little shop between Bunnings Warehouse and the railway line run by a very obliging and expert designer of curtains and the like, Frith. She had several patterns and fabrics which were just what I was hoping for and although she’s very expensive ($700 each window) I think Karola and I will like the choice. Even the backing material, to stop the heat loss, is made of cotton, not synthetic plasticy material.

After the hour with the designer studying curtain fabrics I high tailed it over to Havelock North, back to the shop where Gill bought Karola’s birthday present of a small sharp yellow kitchen knife. I bought the other two colours, red and green so we can have: red for meat, green for vegetables and yellow for cheese and fruit. They have sharp, hard wearing steel blades covered with a non-stick coating – they’re only about six inches long including the handle.

After 2:00pm I spent the rest of the afternoon and early evening trying out various WiFi modems and seeing how far the signal would go – almost as far as the big shed in the orchard.

Henere and his son Scott popped round briefly late afternoon so I was able to tell him in person that Sunday would be better because Graham Harvey is coming round on Saturday lunchtime to help with the WiFi.

Today’s Preference For The Upstairs Windows

Oak Avenue Weather:1℃—14℃ no rain [80.4]