I walked to the railway station this morning and caught a bus to Island Bay to wander about and to check out whether buying a property there is a good idea. I only walked for about 5kms because my broken toe was sore but I feel that I 'got the miles in'. 'Getting the miles in' is important when wearing an Apple Watch because if you don't the watch beeps and reminds you of the fact. I tell you, it's about as annoying as Richard moaning about posting frequency or correcting grammar in the posts. Sheesh!
On my walk, the water bottle in my backpack leaked and saturated my wallet, my phone, some mail and my book. Bummer. I emptied out the pack and turned it inside out to dry in the sun by laying it and the other items on the Island Bay beach wall that I was sitting on, looking at the view of Taputeranga (Rat Island) and Cook Strait.
Rat Island is reportedly known as that due to an infestation of rats that came from ships in the late 1700s but I prefer to think that it was so named due to its shape...
... where a hunched rat's body can be seen with a long tail.
While sitting for about a quarter of an hour the bag, wallet and phone dried out and, by carefully positioning the book, the warm breeze ruffled the pages in the sunshine and fairy quickly dried that out too.
Job done. I caught a bus back into town and did some shopping.
2 comments:
"While sitting for about a quarter of an hour the bag, wallet and phone dried out and, by carefully positioning the book, the warm breeze ruffled the pages in the sunshine and fairy quickly dried that out too."
Good on the fairy who helped. A good omen for Island Bay.
Like the Apple Watch manufacturer you could patent that annoying behaviour and sell it to subscribing masochists aka ex Marist school students.
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