How many storms over the period of a couple of months is Wellington going to be forced to endure? I've given up counting. The guy came the other day to fix my leaking skylight, whoopeee!, and now all I had to do was call the plasterer and painter to re-do my ceiling, and all would be set.
"Better wait till it rains, just to be sure," the window fixing guy said, sort of as a throw-away line as he was departing.
So, I waited for a week. It poured last Friday and my ceiling leaked as hard, as fast, as furiously as the Victoria Falls. Okay, okay, I exaggerate.... But I did get a half-a-bucket full of rainwater.
This morning, I had to drive to Kilbirnie. In another storm. Through the Miramar Cutting - surely the windiest place in Wellington. I went through ever so slow, but still I felt the car try to swerve across lanes with the wind. We're not called Windy Wellington for nothing! You know, I can never understand why tourists want to come to NZ in winter or spring. December (possibly November) up till March (possibly April) is the best.
Below is a pic I got (from the net) of The Cutting.
Oh, sometime between last Friday and Sunday (it's Monday 2 20 pm, NZ-time, as I type this), the hole in the deck on Hataitai Beach has been (temporarily, I think) repaired. Did that electioneering would-be councillor, Sarah Free, who I complained to last week come through for me by stirring up the council? I see she was elected in the weekend. Mmmmmm, I'm going to keep an eye on this young lady ....
......or maybe it was all those phonc calls and the email that I sent the WCC that finally got their AintoG?
No comments:
Post a Comment