Interesting times!

Yesterday was interesting. “May you live in interesting times” Is that a good thing or a bad one?

First, there was a potential hurricane. It was in the Tasman sea and showed up really well on the weather report last night. It had been raining all day with very strong winds, a bit of a contrast to the last few weeks. The really high winds avoided us on their way to the south island but last night the winds got stronger, enough to scare one of the kids. Reuben as usual was comatose!

The kids and I went to get a towbar fitted to the Rav 4 so Ant can tow his new jetski. We had to get all the way to Glenfield, on the
North Shore, without the sat nav coz Ant had forgotten to leave it for us. Luckily my map is a good one. It took less than an hour, although we walked over to the mall two miles away to while away the time. As we were driving away, and then waiting at traffic lights, the car suddenly stopped. I managed to get it started again but then discovered I had no indicators, air conditioning, speedometer!!!! We had a very hairy time getting back to the garage, crossing three lanes of traffic with no indicators. Hand signals are good! The garage found a loose connection to the battery, not their fault, and a short circuit which was. One replaced fuse later, and a spanner to the battery and we were good to go. It was very very scary, though! Even worse than the time we went to Piha and discovered we had no petrol. Coasting back to the petrol station, up a 7km hill, was fun! So we have survived two car adventures!