Heading south to Woodville
so I could visit a shop called
Frocking ... something...
a dress shop anyway.
I heard about this Suzie Johnson and
her revamp of an entire town.
The town is Shannon so anything would have helped.
And now she is working on Woodville.
Suzie started a shop called Oosh Lala
selling clothes that suit Kiwi lasses
Big boobs, big hips, shapely lasses are we.
The Woodville shop had some nice clothes
with nice prices but by the time I had got to Woodville
a loo was more on my mind than a changing room.
Ah the powers of a women's bladder.
I held on all the way over the Saddle Road to Feilding
and threw myself on Massickses mercy before we went to lunch.
Finally after two days of cold food
I got a decent meal at Focal Point in Feilding.
A delicious beef salad,
light but filling,
tasty and wholesome.
Massicks did too.
He has a bad case of hero worship of me.
It's ok though he can usually keep a lid on it.
I must admit I did kind of choose the beef salad
because I was have a need to eat the appropriate food
when I'm with people who grow that particular thing.
Since I was lunching with a beef farmer and
a Beef+LambNZ Extension Manager
my compulsion was great.
They, however had seafood chowder.
After an hour of chatting about the Rural Business Network,
luckily this was the reason for the meeting
otherwise that would have been a very long social chat,
I jumped in the giant car
and took a new-to-me back road coming out at Vinegar Hill
and State Highway One.
Took a right and headed north to...
Taihape!
I have no problem admitting that I had to txt Shauny for directions to his house
even though he had already given them to me.
He had been having a contractor's nightmare afternoon.
Not long after lunch the newish drill started jamming while he was seeding lucerne at Ohakune.
I was just did a search for a seed drill image
but I will assume you are as unappreciative of farm machinery
as I am so I haven't embarrassed myself by adding an image here
because it will be the wrong one,
for sure.
But here is a paddock Shauny seeded previously,
not at Ohakune though.
Anyway Shauny was a little, tiny bit tense
and told me where to go..
to his house in the hills
and that he would be home at some point.
All I can say is thank goodness he had family photos up
in the lounge and Young Farmer shirts on the line,
otherwise I could have been in anyone's unlocked house.
By the time I had been to the supermarket,
chatted to Dae for 45 minutes,
driven up winding roads
it was beautifully dusky.
So I took advantage of that and snapped a photo or two
of the view from Shauny's house.
I love gum trees,
almost as much as cabbage trees.
I can't say I exactly waited for Shauny.
It was more like relaxed and watched TV.
I miss watching TV.
It's been so long since I've just blobbed out in front of the box.
I was so relaxed I couldn't be bothered cooking dinner.
It was dark by the time Shauny got home
and he had to go back to seed the paddock the next morning
and contractors are do it til its done kind of people.
Saturday morning I woke to an empty house and
the clouds rolling down the hills
So I escaped back to Taihape
happily spending three hours wandering the shops.
Ok I mean an hour in the shops and one hour each in cafes.
Highly recommend Soul Food cafe
(on the right side when you are heading south through Taihape).
Looks ordinary but I was working on the ethnic food theory
that if the locals were eating there it would be good food.
And it was.
I love corn fritters and
Soul Food cafe does gluten free ones.
Love that!
Other highlights of Saturday
were that I had the awkward situation of being in a shop
and breaking something.
While buying a silicon baking mat
I knocked over a little glass oil and vinegar bottle set.
The lovely shop lady,
who turned out to be Shauny's stepmum,
was nice enough to not make me pay for it.
Other highlight was the amazingly accurate drips from shop eaves
that dropped directly down my cleavage.
Not so highlighty.
Oh I remember the highlight,
baking and Shauny coming home for a good long chat
that had us laughing.
He is a good mate,
just to clarify.
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