A walk in the park

Colours and textures at Wellington Botanical Gardens, and a sleepy duck's back.

Cat names

Borrowed the idea from "The Defective Yeti" blog. As we all know, cats have more than one name. Otto is our "almost 12" 7kg, soft and gentle tomcat, Cumin is his 2 year old female charge.

Name	Otto	Cumin
Secret Actual Name	Pud	Bagele
Name According To Otto	Blank	Redheads have more fun
Prior Name	Terence	Unknown
Generic Nickname	Boykie	Twinkle / Chippy/ Niblet
Nickname When Bad	He’s never bad	Jaeger Meisie
Nickname when stretched across sofa	Panda draught excluder	Sausage roll
Nickname When dozing	Buddha	Baby
Nickname fluffed up and territorial	Ottopuss Maximus	Bottle brush
Nickname when walking on us in bed at 4:00 AM	Elephant cat	Prancer
Nickname Reflecting How Cat Came To Be In Our Possession	Latte stealer	Con artist

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Recently I had a few slides put onto CDs from the days I lived in Central Europe. This was taken in Znojmo in the Czech Republic (a fantastic town with amazing restaurants and artisan craftsmen). I don't know who lived in this house, I can only guess it is someone who made armour. Any other suggestions?

Elements

New favourite restaurant, Elements in Lyall Bay. We celebrated a friend's 50th there last night and the food was superb.

Hollandaise sauce drama

The following report appeared today in New Zealand's online newspaper www.stuff.co.nz. Hollandaise sauce is a staple ingredient to the Sunday breakfast at the local cafe. Bet she's glad she didn't brake fast.

A Greytown woman is nursing aches and pains after spilled hollandaise sauce sent her car into a 360-degree spin on the Rimutaka Hill's cliffside road.

Sheryll Brasell is still shaking after her car, carrying her 6-year-old daughter, Courtney, and herself, suddenly spun out of control and ended up on the other side of the road on Thursday.

If there had been oncoming vehicles, things would have been different, Mrs Brasell said.

Although "all the jokes are really hilarious", the pair were lucky to be alive.

"We just spun out, did a 360 and ended up on the other side of the road.

"We were spinning on pure oil ... We could have killed ourselves," she said.

They were travelling on the cliff-side of the road when it happened.

Mrs Brasell had no idea what caused the spin and it was not until she continued to steer her oil-slicked wheels along the road that she noticed "yellow stuff" she thought was spilt road-marking paint.

When she reached the top of the hill she saw a truck dripping with yellow liquid and realised the source.

"I got out of the car and went `Oh my God, it's you'.

"No wonder I'm sliding all around the corners, it's mostly oil."

She notified nearby road workers.

Mrs Brasell was nursing a sore neck and back yesterday.

Her daughter had commented on how scary the incident was and even drew a picture of a car sliding on a yellow road, which she took to school.

Most of the oil had come off the car but the hubcaps were still coated, Mrs Brasell said.

Greytown farmer Stuart Smith took responsibility for the spill, saying he was taking a 100-litre drum of "reject" hollandaise sauce to feed animals at his farm.

He realised the sauce was spilling on the road when following motorists started tooting their horns at him

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Floriditas Cafe Wellington. That's me in the bottom right hand corner taking a photo of a mirror which reflects the window out into the street.

Saturday activities at no 13

 Guarding the beetle in the shoe

Dozing off guarding the beetle in the shoe




















Fish pie gigantus, dinner for two days.

Making Saturday Inspiration boxes for "Caravanserai" my new business. Check out janescaravanserai.blogspot.com