Monday, July 2, 2007
cars, dvds and breakfast from Manfords point of view
We are looking at BMWs and Volvos this week - they are less pricey here if you stay away from the new ones. In order to attempt to preserve my santity (we currently only have Chicken Run and Chronicles of Narnia on DVD and they have been watched, I believe, about 2 million times) we will visit a DVD rental store tonight.Hamilton is a town divided into East and West sections, and the West is generally more costly - e.g. $14.50 for a full breakfast with eggs, meat, toast and hashbrowns and a cup of coffe with steamed mils is $3.40. Pastries are 3-4 dollars. On our (East side) part of town we have found a small shop that sells wonderful lemon tarts (Carrie can tell you the name) for a dollar. Today was Carrie's first day at the University - her first class is July11 by which time we hope to have a second car for getting around town in and not being so hard to park as our minivan, since the new Harry Potter movie comes out that day and I need to take Joseph to the theatre to see it. Rain but not flooding. May all who read this have a peaceful day (or at least an hour). Manford
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Yours is the first blog I have ever looked at -- I can see the utility of the thing, as you all seem much less far away. It's still a little distressing to think of you down there having to walk upside down, drive on the opposite side of the road (at least they don't make you drive in reverse) amongst all those inscrutable foreign "panel beaters" and Hokey Pokey eaters
-- it sounds like a Odysseian project complete with a mini scylla (or is it charybdis)in your contrary turbo drain.
But if Kevin Kline was right in that movie about "what doesn't destroy you makes you stronger", then Emily will realize that she really is learning all sorts of things, Joseph's x-box will function just as well as if it were right side up, Carrie will decipher the
Great New Zealand Biscuit Conundrum and Manford, after driving past the same mysterious landmark three times trying to find the DVD rental, will notice that he has become fearless, confident, and, yes, prettier.
May the force be with you (you may have to switch the polarity down there, though).
Dave Beale
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