The 'old' Honda motorcycle is considered to be vintage and Jo was invited to show the bike at a vintage bike event in Palmerston North last weekend. There was an amazing assortment of bikes from all eras and all makes - particularly British and Japanese. However, some folks take these sorts of events painfully seriously, whilst others tend to park their tongues firmly in their cheeks and 'show' a bike like the one pictured here which was standing amongst some quite dramatically impressive bikes of the motorised variety! The card on the front was obviously written by the owner of the bike and reads "Blaze's bike No 500"
I did notice that some show-goers were not amused - which just made me enjoy the situation even more!
(Note that the bike beside this one is parked over a mirror - very serious competitive showing wouldn't you say? A dab or blob of oil on that mirror could put the owner in line for a serious bout of depression or a brush with OCD at the very least!)
Those of you who know me well will know that this having come up unplanned, 'unplanted' and unannounced in an 'empty' bed in the garden was a brilliant surprise and made my day!
Our plum tree has burst into amazing blossoms and I took a couple of photographs with the view to setting up a still life picture for an acrylic painting sometime in the near enough future.
There are two butcheries within striking distance of Wanganui which sell decent enough boerewors - this one is in Stratford and as you can detect by the sign out front, is owned by ex South Africans. Whenever Jo is out and about on the roads in the vicinity of this little town, he calls in for boerewors and a big bag of sliced biltong, which may or may not arrive home intact - depending on how ravenous the purchaser was at the time!
We bought a Cadac portable braaier which folds up and packs away neatly into a bag just big (or is that small) enough to fit into one of the cases on the bike. This means that we can waft off anywhere we fancy and set up the barbeque beside a road somewhere, as we did in this photograph. The blue bag pictured here as well, is a little 'chilly bin' so meat and salads stay cool and fresh. Called in at a local supermarket en-route and bought a couple of fresh, crispy breadrolls and voila - dinner done!
PS - Cadac has only very recently been introduced in Wanganui - the locals are most impressed with the product range.
Dis al!
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