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 Wednesday 22nd November 2023

Another lovely day today.

Eddie went surf casting this morning, but had no luck. After lunch he took the drone down and caught 3 nice snapper. We had 1 for our tea tonight. Very nice too. It's been a while since we had fresh caught fish.

Tuesday 28th November 2023.

Eddie went and had his medical for his truck lisence this morning. The doctor said that she didn't see why he had to keep having a medical every year when has been well since his heart attack. She wrote a note on the medical to that effect. Perhaps he won't have to have one next year. They cost $70, so it would be could if he didn't have to do it.

Louise woke up this morning feeling unwell and tested herself. She has covid. She probably got it off the ship. So far everyone else is ok. Fingers crossed we don't get it. We don't think we got too close to her, so fingers crossed

We didn't leave Edgecumbe until 10 30, so we never got home until 6. We had a good trip down. We stopped at Turangi for a Burger King lunch and a wee wee stop. We had a brief stop at Woodville for a breather and another wee wee stop. We parked outside a nice park. It is called Foutaine Park. The land was gifted by a settler for the town. His name was Mr Foutaine. Not sure if I am spelling it correctly. It was complete with band rotounda and a playground. One of the trees was planted by the Prince of Wales in 1920. 

There was a lot of broom in bloom along the side of the road at Waiouru. As the picture below shows. Very pretty, but such a weed.

When we got home, Tony, Darren and Tony's friend Nick were having a bbq tea.  We got a great welcome from them all. Even from Gypsy, Darren's dog. Nick and his partner Leigh are staying here for a while. Darren has done a good job looking after the cleaning and the vege garden is doing ok too.