With our caravan still up at Ohaupo and Robin’s recent knee operation meaning he was unable to drive, there was no way we would be attending the weekend rally at Rangiotu School. So we did the next best thing and visited the rally for morning tea. I was the nominated driver and we had a whoopsie on the trip up. The only damage was to a pukeko who tried to cross the road in front of my little grey car – these birds have no road sense at all.
It was a grey drizzly morning and we arrived at the school to be warmly welcomed by the rally family Russell and Maureen. Morning tea was held in the kitchen/dining room and everyone soon arrived with their cuppas. We had brought along some cream sponges to celebrate Robin’s recent birthday – no wonder everyone was pleased to see us.
Yes, he will be sharing that sponge cake
As we hadn't been to a rally for a while, as you can imagine, there was plenty of catching up to do. We are so lucky at this school to have this room available to meet in, I imagine there wouldn't be much chance of sitting outside with the weather forecast promising a wet weekend.
The sponge cakes all got eaten
Originally we had planned to stay on for lunch, and I had packed a picnic lunch accordingly, but Robin’s knee was getting rather painful so we decided to head for home. Many thanks to Geoff and Eileen who invited us in to their van for an extra chat before we departed, and to Russell and Maureen for suppling some Lemonade lemons to us all, I took a couple of these home to try.
Happy Campers
The drive home was uneventful, although the rain was setting in, and luckily no unwary pukekos ventured into the road in front of me. These birds have been called “god dammed purple chickens” by USA visitors, we understand.
Robin needed a little nap after our “at home picnic lunch” - guess the morning had taken it out of him a bit. After an easy evening meal we settled down to watch Jurassic Park, the very first film in the series. It had been ages since this was released, and although I remembered bits and pieces as the film evolved, it was still very exciting and well worth watching.
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I remember catching a pukeko during my survival training. Plucked it and placed it in a pot of boiling water with three small stones. Boiled it until the stones were soft and then threw out the pukeko before eating the stones. :-)
Is it true that the All Blacks have heard about Robin's recent knee op and he has now been contacted about being a replacement hooker during the RWC?
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