(Z)OODLES OF SOCIAL HISTORY

This morning I left with The Old Girl but in Cuba Street when she turned right to walk to work I turned left and walked through Te Aro, Mount Cook, Vogeltown, Berhampore, Newtown and home. It was a fairly substantial walk with a few steep hills thrown in so I was tired when I arrived home.

On the way I spied a few things that are social history and that could become part of a The Curmudgeon's Tours itinerary in the future.

Do you recognise this house in Mount Cook? It was the scene of quite a few social gatherings in the 1970s.

In Finnimore Terrrace, Vogeltown I discovered where one of Richard's blogging identities lives.

Liardet Street Vogeltown was where I grew up.

In Berhampore I rediscovered the house that Shelley's elderly relatives almost bought back in the 1960s.

All up it was a walk of about 12kms - a bit more than I intended and I managed to hurt my broken toe again when I took a tumble down a bank at Berhampore golf course. On the positive side though I found two golf balls! I've left these on the kitchen bench as an offering to The Old Girl but I suspect that this will be as wanted as a dead mouse that a cat brings into the house for its owner.

in Tory Street I called in to Moore Wilson's to pick up some supplies for dinner - I'm making prawn zoodles and spaghetti with chilli and lemon. Yummy. You might be wondering what a zoodle is though and, before I read the recipe I'd never heard of them either. Zoodles are long, thin strips of zucchini that resemble pasta or noodles.

Unfortunately Moore Wilson's didn't have any despite that fact that its website advertises packs of them so I bought a couple of zucchini instead which I will peel in to narrow strips. I bought some nice prawns though. The dish will go well with a glass of Villa Maria Hawkes Bay reserve chardonnay.