I have been fascinated by the angle of the railings on bridges since we arrived here - what mystifies me is not that the railings are angled, it's that some are, and some aint, and I can't figure out what determines which should be and which shouldn't.
We decided that although the weather remains decidedly wintery, cabin fever threatens so we thought we could do with a little sight seeing and headed out on Sunday afternoon for a wander. The world around us is definitely dealing with plenty of frost and wind, the leaves on the trees have long gone and everything is chilled and crisp.
The view from the 'lookout' beside the road. The railway line is a whole lot straighter than just about any road we have seen anywhere in New Zealand!
Late in the afternoon with the shadows lengthening, it was really cold up on the hill with the wind whipping around our legs, but the views were still quite spectacular.
We called in at a wonderful little roadside cafè for a hot 'tea' (being something substantial to eat and what we foreigners would actually call supper) and found 'chook sammys' on the menu. Just wondered if our dear blog followers would know that a chook sammy is a chicken sandwich. Just curious!
We had the best cheeseburgers and fresh hot chips - not the 'slap' variety - don't get none of thems here - and wondered if our blog followers knew that burgers in New Zealand have all sorts of things on them besides the cheese and mince patty - for example, most of them have loads of 'yukky green stuff' and most have beetroot slices on them as well. Some have grated carrot added and most have onion of some sort lurking as well. A complete meal - and generally very good value for money.
On the subject of 'wondered if you knew' - most of our dear blog followers in SA wouldn't know what size egg to buy - I mean, do you want eggs that are size 7? Or smaller? Or larger? How big is size 7 anyway?
And what's with the size of the dead chook - (the one you want to pop in the oven for Sunday dinner) - Size 18 chooks were on special the other day, but I've seen size 20's too.
Jo reckons that maybe eggs go up to whatever size and thereafter, meaning once the egg has hatched, we carry on with the numbers - a gigantic egg being say, size 10 and then size 11 being a fluffy little chick and size 15, say, a scrawny(for the Sunday lunch roast) fowl, but size 18 to say, size 20, a really yummy, plump, perfect for roasting chicken to be served with all the trimmings. Just wondering.
We've discovered 'babaganousch' hummus! Very yummy on crackers and less fattening than chips and dip!
The most common car in New Zealand is the Toyota Corolla (looks different here, same label) - and the most common colour for cars here is silver - I kid you not, they really do research about stuff like that and although we all know that manufacturers care about what colour of what people want and will buy - it's surprising that they tell us all on TV that there are presently 537,519 silver cars on the roads at the moment in NZ. (That's the number - not a thumb suck), but it was early this week so will no doubt have changed!
Good on ya Louis Oosthuizen on winning the Golf! Brilliant! The kiwi news readers can't say 'Oosthuizen' if their lives depended on it, but there you go. Only four South Africans have ever won the Open - Bobby Locke, Gary Player (of course ) and Ernie Els (just as of course).
Mr Tiger Woods failed to feature!
Fell about laughing the other day when someone here said " Tiger Woods het nou rêrig 'n groot gat in sy tjekboek gespyker" !!
Dis al!
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