danger stock on road

Another “Fun-tastic” day in the great south

The day has been sunshine and lollipops but freaking cold

I took a blast on the Motto Beasty up to Lawrence for a bowl of the sea food chowder at thhe “Coffee Mine” cafe’ that I love so much I’ll ride 200km to get it [100km there and 100km back]

The temperature through the Manuka gorge was down to +2 so by the time the wind chill factor is put into the equation it’s brass monkey weather [cold enough to freeze the iron cannon balls off of the “brass monkey” frame that held them in place ready for loading] and my balls were just as cold I reckon

I took it easy although there was no actual ice on the road there was a bit off fine grit from where they had gritted the ice earlier in the day and the road was wet in the shaded corners

The woman that owns the Cafe’ [“The Coffee Mine”] is nice, very chatty and the amount of people who just like myself  travel km’s just for the chowder is quite surprising

while I was there today she had some [looked to be] Japanese people who live in Dunedin and take friends and family through to Queenstown quite regularly always stop in and give their guests the experience of the chowder

Now in my mind that speaks volumes of the quality of the food because in my experience the Asian people and in particular the japanese are very fussy about the freshness of the ingredients and taste of thier food especialy the sea food, they are literaly experts as they eat so much of it in their natural diet

So freezing cold but a great ride all the same

I was going to take my best mate with me but she has a new boyfriend so I didnt want to invade their space

She’s known him for quite awhile but they’ve just started dateing so they will be wanting to spend time together and as she went to the “Pink Floyd Experience” with me Wednesday nite it would be rude of me too steal her away for a bike ride on the weekend the only time they have all day together

He seems like a nice guy and it has definately put her in a very bubbly mood for the last few weeks.

I hope it works out for her as her last “boy friend” almost broke her heart the “wanker’, this guy is a bit older so I’m sure that he appreciates that he has a great girl

I’m hoping for another good day tomorrow but the forecast is looking a little shitty so it may be just a bath day and back in the garage for the Beasty

subject change;

I collect old New Zealand paper money [pounds and early decimal notes]as a hobbie/ investment and have a very modest collection

there’s a couple of notes out there that are like the “holy grail”,  in the pounds stirling they are notes signed by the chief cashier “Le Feaux’ in 1934-36

Theres a 50 pound “Le Feaux” listed on Trade Me for $20,000.oo

I’m hanging out to just go into the bank on Monday and strap up a 20k loan thats how much I would like to have this particular note in my collection, its one of only 80 known to be in “circulation” and they are nearly all in the hands of proffesional money collectors

Things must be tight as this particular proffesional money collector is trying to unload this note

It has a few blemishes and folds with a small scrawl written in indelible pencil in the lower bottom left margin on the reverse side but is still possibly worth 20-25k a almost mint note of this series is valued at around $40,000.oo

The dearest note in my personal collection is only $2,500.oo but I have a dream to have a top of the line “Le Feaux” and as I already have reasonable example of the “le feaux” 10 shilling 1 pound and five pound notes the only one I’ve not managed to obtain is the 50 pound as for obvious reasons they don’t come up for auction often

What a bugger, Im not sure that I want to go into that much debt though with the economy being so volitile and having just had the wee scare at work with the contract being under review

But this is the only one I’ve seen for auction [ever], so far there has been no bids on it so i’ll sit and watch I may get to make a offer should it not reach its reserve

“Cheeky Kity” has jumped onto my knee to mooch some attention and is now standing infront of the monitor saying “look at mee-ow”

She’s such a smoochy cat

Thats it for tonight the cat wins shes now chasing my fingers on the key board and stealing my pens to get attention so Ill blog off

Danger STOCK on road  [weather permitting]