PETONE WANDERINGS

I met with Robert and Richard today - Robert at his home and Richard wandering around Petone.

Robert was laid as he ... sorry, it's best to rephrase that as Robert is a Catholic who believes that sex is a mortal sin ... Robert was laid up due to a fall off a ladder leading to him breaking a bone in his heel. Poor thing. He didn't elaborate what he was doing up the ladder but I suspect one of two things:

1. He was trying to reach Heaven like those Tower of Babel jokers and his god tossed him down

 or

2. He was trying to look up Mary the virgin's skirts and she tossed him down (my apologies for that expression 'tossed' as it can conjure up sexual connotations for sexually frustrated schoolboys).

He's off work and off his feet (which makes a change from off his head) for a month so I guess we can expect many well-structured, carefully researched and entreating posts from the discombobulated fellow. Let's hope that he gets well soon.

Richard was driving along Petone foreshore when he spotted me walking along. I'd left Robert's place in Moera and was walking along to get to Jackson Street and then to the railway station. Richard 'parked' his car about 6 feet from the gutter and offered me a lift. He said that he was off to Bunnings to get a life, or that's what I thought he said. "About time" I replied at which he looked at me strangely - a default setting for him I think. It turned out that he meant that he was going to buy a light - a stand-up lamp - because Shelley, like Lynn prefers to not have overhead lights on or indeed any sort of lights in the house. Quite sensible I guess when it comes to her and The Old Girl having to look at us I guess.

It was lucky that Richard spotted me walking along as he needed a bit of help driving his car given that Shelley wasn't with him so I had to alert him to: old ladies crossing the street; red lights; pedestrians on footpaths; and any sort of trucks on the road. We made it to Bunnings despite interference from some Japanese woman in his car who kept interrupting and jabbering away in what I assume was Japanese. I thought that Richard had a Japanese woman held hostage in the boot at first but he told me that she is in the car's system somewhere and he can't find her. Weird!

Richard managed to purchase a lamp and I bought a light bulb for The Old Girl before we went shopping at Bin Inn and the UK shop where I bought bread making mixes at the first and boxes of Irish tea at the second before Richard bought me a coffee and a muffin. He then drove me all the way home in Wellington which was kind of him. 

On the drive around Petone and to Wellington I was able to alert Richard to: cows on the hills; boats in the harbour; trains on the rails; and many other dangers to driving that he might otherwise have missed. I worry though about him getting home so will keep and eye on the news.