Always bad news when yoga starts and there’re less than 6 in the class. There were 4 of us tonight, all known to the teacher, so he dispensed with the usual schedule of poses with varying levels of difficulty and pitched the class and what he believed we all could do. I’ve been hanging upside down from a rope, had my leg practically forced back behind my head, had to bend sideways leaning against the wall forcing my bad to be as straight as a board, and sat weighed down by sandbags in at least 5 hip-wrenching positions (if we’re unlucky we might normally get slapped with 2, and without the sandbag). Not sure I’ll be able to walk straight tomorrow.
Entries Tagged 'Out and about' ↓
Small yoga class
August 28th, 2008 — Out and about
Dear Beaurepaires
August 27th, 2008 — Out and about
Dear Vince,
I feel this letter may not end as well as I imagined it would, because you put stickers on my car.
I can’t believe the terrific service I had and high esteem in which I held your Kent Terrace establishment until 4.55pm today. I had the misfortune of discovering a totally flat tyre on my Audi yesterday morning, on the day it was due for it’s annual service, which unfortunately due to the age (gulp) of the car now has caused me much financial anxiety today. However, the shining light in all this was the service I received from your Kent Terrace store. In anticipation of the Audi dealer sourcing tyres for me (I knew they were all getting pretty bald, let alone the punctured one) I rang your shop a couple of times, first for a price on one tyre, then on all 4. Just in case. They guy was quite patient with me. When Audi rang me once they’d got the car in pieces to tell me I needed not one but 2 tyres, and what their price was, and the great list of other oils and belts and plugs and fluids, I decided that I would have to source the tyres myself, despite their recommendation that their tyres would be a lot better for the car. So, I’m in the city, my car’s in bits on the almost-suburbs, and as with Wellington the last 6 weeks, it was raining. So I rang my Beaurepaires man again and managed to get him to agree to go down the road to the Audi dealership when the car was put back together, take it back to your shop and put on the new tyres, and then drop it back so Audi could complete the warrant. Fantastic. What a great guy! What great service! I was so grateful – they guy didn’t know me from a bar of soap! He just told me to come in a pay later when I’d gone to pick the car up. It all worked like clockwork and I didn’t seem to piss the Audi guy off too much (the one that likes the car … which is obviously important!) so what started out to be a pretty bad car day (on top of all this other stuff it had no petrol and was filthy from the trip to Raetihi) was not so bad in the end.
Until I arrived at Audi and from the damn road could see a bumper sticker. What were you thinking? Was is all the other stickers on the car, you know ‘Vote for Obama’, ‘I like rainbows’, ‘Baby on board’, ‘Wake up with a Breeze’, ‘If you can read this you’re too f*&%#$@ close’, ‘My husband drives our big car’ etc that led you to believe I liked stickers? Or the haphazard stickering of others before you putting registration, warrant, tyre and oil stickers any goddamn place they liked on the windshield which meant that you stuck your SECOND sticker out to the SIDE? Did you not see the almost rulered line that the others followed? The ones that were there even? I suppose it’s my bad – I have trained Audi to put all non-legally required stickers on the inside of the driver’s door and not all over the windshield, and I never thought to tell you. Even though the stickers are orange (not that you have any choice really) I don’t feel at all enamoured with them. Lucky for you whether due to the rain, the newly washed and polished exterior or the talons I have for fingernails, the second highlight of my day was being able to get the sticker off the back hatch without leaving any residue.
Anyway, thanks again. I really do appreciate the guy going out of his way to organise my tyres for me.
There IS such a thing as a free lunch
August 23rd, 2008 — Out and about
Absolutely bowled over to be given lunch on the house at Superfino today! Not sure what we’ve done other than be loyal customers and members of the Superfino Society but it was an amazing gesture on their part. We already love the food, atmosphere and people there – and you know us – suckers for feeling special and recognised. Yaaay for the free lunch!
They’re opening a couple more nights a week from next week and we found out that while they don’t serve anything more than their counter food in the evenings they can order in Pizza Pomodoro – what a great idea! That’s one less night we have to figure out what to have for dinner this week!
Coupon savings
August 23rd, 2008 — Out and about
Went to the supermarket early this morning for a change. It’s far less pleasurable than wandering along to Moore Wilsons but we have to face it every 3-4 weeks. And we saved $15 this week through our choice of products with coupons! You don’t want to know how much we had to spend that the totalled savings got that high! And the petrol coupon we got on the till receipt was only 4c/litre off … I thought if you spent over $200 it was something like 10c off!
Anyway, had a little drive around enjoying the spring day. Perved at a guy in a very nice black S5 – young guy with very nice specs (as in eye glasses!) and clothes – and spent a bit of time discussing what we thought he did for a living that afforded him a car like that.
Oriental Parade was lovely – before it started raining again.
Superfino girl
August 22nd, 2008 — Out and about
Spent the last part of my afternoon playing have-laptop-will-travel and enjoyed my coffee and Belgium biscuit like Nana used to make at Superfino while churning out the last bit of some help I needed to finish today. The girl working was our ‘Saturday girl’ and she’s fantastic! She put my afternoon tea on a tab because she knew the Mister was coming by later; she brought me a carafe of water after clearing my dishes thereby signalling that it was OK that I was there hogging a table even though there were no other seats free and when the Mister ordered a second gin she noticed that he had ditched the straw that came with the first one and put down the straw she was about to put in the second one. Good on her for being so observant. Now that’s great service.
Icey tui
August 20th, 2008 — Out and about
Pretty damn cold this morning. Gorgeous blue day but only 2 degrees when we left for work. We’ve seen ice or frost or some white coldness on the roof of the building across the road before, but not on the poor tui’s back.
Not sure how easy it is to see in this pic …
Photo in the ‘paper’
August 18th, 2008 — Out and about
I wondered if this photo would ever turn up somewhere … the society pages perhaps. However, I guess on the DominionPost website is good enough! It’s from our evening of quaffing at the Taittinger Club launch.
(Not sure if the link to the actual photo will work as it’s monumentally long and I don’t know if it’s permanent.)
Hail
August 18th, 2008 — Out and about
It’s been fine all day and now individual hail stones have begun tapping on the roof and skylight, no rain, just hail. I think we’re in for a ‘sleety’ blast tomorrow – another day for Wellingtonians to swear that it’s snowing!
Is that mothballs I smell?
August 10th, 2008 — Out and about
Went to the aforementioned free organ recital at the Wellington Town Hall this afternoon. Most enjoyable.
I donned a ‘vintage’ cable-knit jacket made by my grandmother for my mother in the 60’s (I think) but still didn’t blend in – the elderly were out in force and other than a few youngun’s that were probably muso’s we were certainly among the youngest there.
The organist, Rober Costin (www.robertcostin.com) was quite a young guy and very talented. Not that I’ve a lot of experience or much appreciation for organs having mostly heard smaller ones blurbling away in the corner of a church during the certificate signing at a wedding. However this guy really got it cracking. Feeling it vibrating through the chairs and floor was just fantastic. A pianist myself I know it can be quite difficult to operate 2 hands on a single keyboard at breakneck speed and 2 pedals with 2 feet let alone 4 keyboards and 2 panels of knobs operated by 2 hands and a whole other ‘keyboard’ and 2 pedals on the floor operated in a heel-toe-heel-toe manner without really being able to see your feet and getting from one side of the keyboard to the other by sliding along the bench seat taking care not to knock over the guy turning the music pages! Very impressive.
Hopefully I’m not breaking any copyright laws but got 20 seconds on the camera of one of the mid-level noise bits (War March of the Priests, Felix Mendelsson). Wellington can be proud to have such a great instrument in its Town Hall and thank you to whoever paid for the concert to happen! We might even go to some of the concerts during organ week in September when organs in churches around Wellington get to have a bit of a bellow.
Feels like 0
August 9th, 2008 — Out and about
Hmmm, I think metservice.co.nz is right, the wind chill out there is bitter and absolutely feels like 0 right now. That graphic means sleet/snow!
Some time later … just spend 4.5 hours at back to back movies to escape the weather and while we were in there, the temp dropped and currently feels like -2!!!
