I have to get a medical clearance and then get my Irish Passenger Transport licence swapped onto my NZ licence, then I go onto the list of drivers for Golden Bay Tours, taking tourists out to Farewell Spit Lighthouse and other places. Although they are slowing down now the main tourist season is nearly over. It’ll be a good part time job anyway, and fun.
Still waiting for the polytunnels to arrive, they were meant to be here Thursday, so I waited at Collingwood till 5.30 pm Thursday, then came back home. The carriers rang Friday morning and said how about Tuesday about 4.30, so I’ll be back at the garage again then. Waiting wasn’t too bad, the garage loaned me a couple of books to read while I was waiting, in between taking a few more photos around Collingwood.
I went to the monthly meeting of SeniorNet in Takaka on Monday, just to see what they do, and ended up getting put onto the committee. They run computer/internet classes for 55+ people, and despite the small population here in Golden Bay, all the courses they run get filled quickly. I’m down to run a course on internet scams, and identity theft on the net, so the years I’ve been involved with www.scamwarners.com is of some benefit. Especially now with a lot of the newer scams, and the Japanese Earthquake scams everywhere at the moment.
I picked up my trailer on Tuesday over in Motueka, it tows well, and is well set up for a lawnmowing round, with a lock box on the front, and detachable ramps at the back. And deep sides, better than the usual 300mm high ones. All I need now is the lawns and gardens to do and get payed for. It will take a month or so for any work to come in, I have an ad going in this week in the Golden Bay paper, but as I’ve been told by Shukita at the store, everyone will wait till the ad has been running for a month at least before responding, everyone here has seen the blowins arrive then vanish without achieving anything.
I’ve had another look and measured up everything again for getting stuff upstairs, and I think there is just room enough to get a queen bed base up there, it is tight and I’ll need someone else to help, but I think with a bit of awkward manoeuvering and some muttered words, it should work. So I’m upstairs this weekend plastering and masking off the edges. A coat of plaster today, then sand off tomorrow if it dries in time, then painting during the week. Getting right up into the ceiling at the ridge is going to be interesting, I have a 12’ ladder, and it is still a bit short, and given I don’t like working at heights anymore, I get vertigo something chronic now, I may have to borrow another ladder and some planks just to give me the sense of security.
Even getting up to plaster is fun, trowel full of plaster, climb up the ladder, watch half the plaster fall off onto the floor, mutter a few words, climb down the ladder, scoop it up, climb etc. still, it is getting done, and then I’ll paint the stairway while the plaster is drying, it is a dark dingy looking stairwell, with the fake wood panels, and spider webs like some Hammer Horror movie hanging from the ceiling.
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