Moving House - Literally...the whole thing!

When someone says that they are "moving house", this is NOT usually what I would have in mind!

It is quite normal over here to move entire houses, that you have been living in, to new locations like this one. They just stick it on the back of a trailer, lift it up a bit and off they go - relocation at its finest. I have actually seen a house on the road! What next?!

What's wrong with this picture?

Just some randomness I came across while walking along Courtenay Place over the weekend...one of those double take moments. Yes, it is a real bird - I waited for it to move! Poor thing must have gotten stuck inside the shop and then gravitated towards the shop front window. It would actually look pretty cool for an ad campaign so no wonder I had to look twice - ... although maybe which book the bird was placed on (cook book) would probably have been better thought through for an ad.

INSINKERATOR!!

Okay, okay, here we go Stacey. Just for you, I snuck (so my flatmates wouldn't think I was nuts) into the kitchen one evening with my camera to take photographic evidence of the existence of the INSINKERATOR (of course only ever pronounced in an Arnie accent). I feel extremely uncomfortable putting food down the INSINKERATOR, but apparently it is Kiwi common practice to put all, ALL, food waste down there - whole chicken breast, whole pie, whole apple! It is a truly amazing invention.

It looks like a normalish, but rather large, drain hole - just got to be careful not to drop a fork in there! (it would not be fun trying to fish that out!!)





And then there is the wonderful, all devouring "waste" button. Just deposit whole food waste items into sink, run some water and flick the switch. Tra-daa! - all done. No mess, no fuss?

Flying Burrito Brothers

There are quite a few funny little things on the menu at the Flying Burrito Brothers...

We went there for Lindsay's birthday dinner. It was delicious! I had chicken Tacos, Andrew had a Burrito, Lindsay had the Fajitas and Glenda had an interesting looking thing that had lamb in it... I really like this place - next time we'll ALL get frozen strawberry margaritas!!

...And Doughnuts!!!

Novelty it may be, but don't you wants it!!!!!