Hungry cat.

I finished my ditch. This runs along the side of my house and (I hope) redirects the water away from flooding my downstairs room. Originally I planned to dig down 1.3m, but soon realized that is a epic amount of work and wouldn’t have led anywhere for the water to drain away. So instead I have a 0.5m ditch which slopes down to the front lawn. I recommend Avondale Central Landscape & Garden Supplies. They delivered my 1m³ of scoria and my drainage coil for a reasonable price hassle free. Wheel barrowing it in of course was a back aching job.

I’m moving this site to a new box, so it will be down for a bit.

We checked out of the YHA and we went back to Felix for another yummy breakfast. Took the cable car up to the botanical gardens for a wander around before it was time to pick up our bags again (receipt? I thought you had the receipt?) and catch our plane. Tim’s boarding pass disappeared on him, which I explained is the sort of thing which normally happens to me, but it was no big deal and they let him on anyway. Tim needs to stop telling me what to write in my blog and update his own one. After a short 1 hour flight we were back in rainy Auckland. And home.

I spend today drinking beer! Well first we caught up with Ralph for breakfast at Felix Cafe and then drove up to his place to see it and his FPGA radio. Then wandered down the hill to the Westpac Stadium to join the hundreds of other beer tasters. It was all extremely well organised with a festival catalogue, tokens, food, seminars, cleaners and of course beer. Between us we tried 12-20 different beers. Favourite beers were McCashin’s Brewery Stoke Bomber – Stout, Feral Brewing Boris, Invercargill Brewery Smokin Bishop, Mussell Inn Captain Cooker Manuka Beer, and Sprig and Fern Doppelbock. Tim said hello to Ian from Galbraiths. Dinner was Cambodian at Siem Reap.