WOF and the Boks!

Yes! I know that you have already had this picture on the blog! The point is that you need to take note of the little white 'sticker' on the bottom right of the windscreen in the photograph! This little scrap of paper is the thing that any law enforcement officer or similar will be looking for when dealing with your car. Known here as the WOF, you are illegal if you don't have a valid WOF and the WOF expires every six months. You read correctly - every six months! A real pain in the proverbial, but admittedly it does mean that you can feel fairly confident about your vehicle being roadworthy. WOF stands for the Warrant Of Fitness and every car that is older than six months, needs to have a WOF test twice a year. Since we have had our 'van' for six months, it's WOF needed renewing this past week and so we duly went off to a testing station. In our case, the AA does these tests a little cheaper if you are a member, so we appeared there and handed our little car over. They do a pretty thorough check and it is admittedly a whole lot easier than a visit to the dentist. The bill was also a lot less! We needed to have the rear brakes adjusted - apparently these required a couple of new parts which were not available in Wanganui that day, so this meant that the car had to go back the following day to have the parts fitted and the WOF finally signed off for another six months. Glad that's done since we will be on the roads over the weekend - a trip back to Hamilton is planned for the Bokkies rugby test against the All Blacks and we will be in the stands, waving both our 'old' and 'new' South African flags for all we are worth! Who knows, maybe you'll catch a glimpse of us on the box - there are so many South Africans living and working in Hamilton that the SA support should be stupendous!! It's going to be really great to catch up with our friends in Hamilton and we have decided to make a weekend of it - after all, the trip is about three and a half hours of winding roads, so we might as well stay over and 'kuier' a bit while we are there! We are just hoping that the Bokkies put on a decent show after the disaster of last week (which incidentally was quite expected since without a Bok loss, the whole Tri Nations would have instantly become a fait accompli) and hopefully we will be able to sing our National Anthem 'uit volle bors' without becoming too misty eyed! Go the Bokke! Dis al!