Tuesday, June 02, 2015

Queen's Birthday Weekend

We spent the weekend on Waiheke as usual.it got off to an inauspicious start with the ferry breaking down and having to return to Auckland after we had almost arrived at our destination.

Good friend Fr came with us for company and another friend K joined us on Monday for the day. We had a nice lunch at the bach and then went to the local museum on the island between Ostend and Onetangi. It is a collection of 3 or 4 baches  and their contents plus one bigger building and outside bits and pieces, and I always find something new to look at or notice.  I bequeathed our old copper from the washhouse a few years ago and probably have more stuff from the olden days to donate.

The day before we went to a photographic exhibition of blokes at the Red Shed in Palm Beach. The little gallery was packed on a Sunday afternoon as some or all of them were local identities,only one of whom I remember having ever seen, a busker with a funny straw hat and a lei, outside the Four Square.

It was Dieter's birthday yesterday  but as we had been away I didn't get round to baking a cake. Will do though, one of these days. Made a nice meal of beef roulades, a long time German favourite of ours.

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