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You can buy Ouma buttermilk rusks (on the Countdown supermarket's International shelf on a good day) but they are enormously expensive and in our humble opinion, not as good as the homemade variety!
Your's truly makes these fairly regularly and they always go down a treat with locals and naturally the other ex-South Africans who happen to visit around tea time - not to be confused with 'tea' which is supper here. As in -" I have to go home to get the tea on, we're having bangers and mash tonight" or "What's for tea?"
Once they are baked and chopped up into bits, they spend the night in the oven to dry out - this is a batch which generally doesn't last anything near what one would expect it to!
We did a 'bring and share' lunch at the holiday park last month - the weather was admittedly a bit gloomy, but look at that magnificent rainbow - had to rummage around for the camera but managed to just catch it for you to see before it vanished as quickly as it had arrived!
Most places in New Zealand have spots where interesting sculpture is on display - this 'knot' is perched beside the Information site in Nelson. Our little town of Wanganui has recently acquired a very interesting piece - set on a large concrete block beside the Whanganui river, it is basically a huge stainless steel sphere with an uneven 'crack' running right around the middle of the ball. We will try and remember to take a picture of it next time we are in the vicinity - and you can judge for yourselves. Also fairly new in Wanganui is the 'pencil' piece - larger than life 'pencils' beside the river - we will post these for you to see as soon as we have them on film.
If you page down through this blog, you will no doubt come across more than one other one of these old 'trap orreltjies' - they are really quite common - when we think about the early pioneers coming to New Zealand and setting up churches for the 'heathen savages' who were living here, they no doubt had neither the money nor the wherewithal to import large, impressive pipe organs for their parishes. These little guys are much easier to transport and do the job quite adequately.
This one caught my eye at the Church of the Good Shepherd (beside the beautiful lake on the South Island) because someone decided that perching a large bible on the music stand would suffice. Couldn't they find any sheet music anywhere? Perhaps I should offer to donate something from the same era as that of this little organ - I'm sure I have plenty stashed away and which I am not likely to really need to use.
A teeny tiny little town in New Zealand can be literally in the middle of nowhere and have little in the way of anything really - the sort of 'one main high street' kind of place with a couple of shops, a church or two and one petrol station, a hotel of sorts and maybe a children's' playground. This one, pictured here has a 'Mitre 10' - hardware store (some of which in NZ are the size of two rugby fields, not this one though!) and there, tucked away is this town's tourist attraction! A working windmill!
What fascinated me too about this little town of Foxton, was the plethora of mural artwork - a couple of which are in this picture - you can see them literally all around this town. And the artwork is not bad either. Did someone pay the artist to do these? Or did they pop up anonymously out of nowhere and cause confusion in the halls of the local council as to whether they were to be classed 'graffiti'! Perhaps we should do some research about all these paintings depicting early Pioneer life in New Zealand
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