We came south to pick up Mr B’s recently imported motorbike only to be stymied by public holiday this Friday (6 Feb - Waitangi Day - commemorates the signing of a treaty between Maori peoples of Aotearoa and Queen Victoria's appointed representatives). Our trip has not been wasted - Mr B and Bro converted an old golf-bag cart into a kayak trolley, we 'found' a tyre to replace one that blew out on the trip down, we have found paperwork for a 'lost' pension of Mr B’s and both visited financial advisors and pension company here in little ol' Ashburton.
Fortune might favor Mr B and Customs might decide to clear their workload before the public holiday and clear the bike for collection tomorrow.....fingers are crossed. Customs officials around the world do not enjoy a generally favorable reputation and ours work under some very detailed restrictions on imported vehicles so I'm not expecting miracles.
Just think in 12 months time this’ll all be a distant memory.
ReplyDeleteI’d love to see the look on Scully’s face the first time Mr B revs up the bike. He might not visit for a while after
Scully lives in a family of petrol heads - big V8 Aussie Falcons amd lots of scrambler motorbikes. (and speed boats) We are no competition for that.
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ReplyDeleteOh yes, the bike... must be extra special if worth the rigmarole/cost of import. Look out NW of the lower isle, the roads might get noisy! Good to get administrative stuff sorted. Oh, and that's a mighty fine-looking chook!!! YAM xx
Brown Shavers - very popular poultry breed over here.
Deleteour lives have become all paperwork, no matter what we do, or try to do. I just got our insurance bill and oh my. auto insurance is killer here... I find it harder and harder to deal with any and all of it. I love the word chook, much better than chick or chicken..
ReplyDeleteInsirance market in nz is sooo small that insurance costs here are off any scale I have been used to in the past.
Deletewell the van has passed inspection...hooe the motorbike does too
ReplyDeletePublic holidays do get in the way of life, sometimes. I hope Mr B is soon reunited with his bike.
ReplyDeleteI hope so too - tracking its journey has been a fixation for the lasy 4 months.
DeleteThose brown shavers, I have 4 of them, are very nosey and curious, they want to get into everything.
ReplyDeleteThey a friendly and clever. They seem to remember me afrom when I lived here and fed them rolled oats at the caravan door - or dug holes in the compost heap for them. They used to chase me when I test rode bikes down to their end of the farm track.
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