Hello Operator. My Cucumber's Faulty...

I met Ainzlee in the supermarket yesterday.
She was going through all the telegraph cucumbers and none of them would connect.
She was having trouble even getting through to the operator.
I suggested she take the shrink wrap off.
When I saw her later,
she was happily chatting away.
To her shrink perhaps...

Vicky Brings Betsy The Bedford Home...

For those of you waiting for news about Betsy,
Vicky flew way down to Oamaru in New Zealand's South Island to bring Betsy home.
Vicky told me before she left home, that she'd grown her fingernails especially for the trip which she anticipated would be a nail biting experience.
A few days home and her knuckles are still white and her arm muscles still ache as she recounts the 1100 kilometre journey home to Whangaparoa, north of Auckland.
"It wasn't tooooo bad' she says "except I couldn't ever seem to find second gear and sometimes third went missing and then a few hundred k's before home with the hardest bit of driving about to happen because of the traffic build up, the driver's side mirror fell off.
With fatigue I guess and probably fear.
I would have done the same thing.
But it was even more scary then".
Now Betsy's home and her children spent the next day sweeping out all the spiders and planning their new home on wheels.
Now it's on with the building of Betsy...

Tiny Houseboat On Wheels...

ME AND ER is a very gorgeous little 'Retreat' houseboat drawn in 1947 by the famous American marine architect, William Atkin.
He also drew the lines for my 'Thistle' yacht Sofia in 1934 but that's another story.
Paul and Jenny built the eighteen foot, seven inch draft Meander for cruising their favourite sheltered waters wherever that may be.
Yesterday it was Parua Bay, not far from where they live on their homestay property, Tahikaka, surrounded by native bush and Olive trees.
But that's another story too...

Another Beautiful Sunrise...

Some days are better than others.
Some sunrises are too.
Today's at Whangarei's Parua Bay
was worth getting up early for...

A Caravan Shaped To Suit Your Style...

Glen Croule's an artist.
His medium is aluminium.
He's made all the wonderful aluminium pieces
on The Flying Tortoise.
The guy's a genius with the genre.
He's also a Hot-Rod enthusiast and has just made this retro caravan called the Slikstream, shaped in the style of his '56 Chevy.
He'll be making bespoke caravans, custom built and unique for anyone who wants
something different and special.
Shaped to suit your style,
whatever style that might be.
You can email me for more information...

A Caravan Shaped To Suit Your Style...

Haha, I Was Joking...

Haha, I was joking, you're not really adopted...
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