I went for a walk along Oriental Bay Parade to Evans Bay today (8kms). It's a nice walk on the flat and will be my 'go to' walk twice a week in the future (a bit further from Hobson Street). I'll get the bus back from Evans Bay or Kilbirnie.
As I said, it's a nice walk but not in a southerly wind. Brrr! I'll have to check the weather forecast before leaving - particularly the wind direction. To make things worse, halfway along the Evans Bay side it started to rain so I got soaked by Wellington's finest - ice cold rain blown in from Cook Strait.
Along Oriental Bay Parade I spied a house where a group of us from Victoria Universitygathered one afternoon to have some beers and to irreverently 'welcome' Queen Elizabeth II, the Duke of Edinburgh, Princess Anne and her husband Captain Mark Phillips, and Prince Charles, the Prince of Wales. Queenie attended the Commonwealth Games in Christchurch and the then New Zealand Day events at Waitangi. This was in February 1974. We gathered on the balcony of this house ...
... to watch the royal prats slowly go past along Oriental Parade. Fortunately none of us threw anything more solid than a few catcalls and raspberries so we were not - 'detained at Her Majesty's pleasure'.
I don't remember, and probably didn't know then whose house it was - probably a student flat.
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That was a bit of a party house. I remember seeing people gathered up there on other occasions.
"Victoria Universitygathered." That second word is the sort of big word that Bob likes to use.
Have you heard that cough yet?
Yes, but it seemed quite a distance away.
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