THE CURMUDGEON
Now, The Religious Curmudgeon has been a bit quiet recently - maybe Kierkegaard has had something to do with that but tonight he has surfaced with a a timely reminder of how silly religion, and especially the Catholic version of Christianity is,,.
See Here: SHARING IS CARING
Not this ...
... as I'm not a doughnut. 😉
I've been back in Wellington for a couple of weeks now and already find myself acting like a Wellingtonian. As I walk about everywhere, I find myself jaywalking, 'running' red lights (pedestrian ones) and dodging traffic - all the things that a couple of weeks ago I was complaining about. Maybe I'll get a bike again and annoy Richard when he's bimbling along in his Nissan Pene Minuscolo or whatever he drives now.
The walking will be good for me as it will help me to keep fit and lose some weight which I've recently put on. My broken and sore toe is limiting but I'm still managing at least 5 kms a day. Today I've done over 9 kms because I walked to Thorndon and back.
I revisited the Hobson Street townhouse that we looked at a couple of weeks ago and walked away from because it is a monolithic cladding house. At the time it was on a fixed price basis with the owners looking for offers above the rateable value. As they did not get this (due to it being a monocled house) they have reduced the asking price. Today, after revisiting, talking to the owners and the real estate agent and fortuitously the builder who earlier this year did the recladding on one side of the house and who had arrived to day to do some resealing and paintwork I, after also reading the building inspection report, made an offer below their new asking price. The estate agent will submit that to them and we will wait to see the outcome. They might tell us to bugger off but, if they don't and our lawyer finds nothing to object to we may have a place to live in Wellington - city fringe. It's a really good street with top class schools and some embassies so security is pretty good. If anything we'll be the worst people to live there (I'll have to hide my beaten up old Toyota Corolla).
