Up A Hill

I am up a hill. New digs – house-sitting in the hillside suburb of Tirohanga. Have set up to work on the dining table, facing an amazing view of NZ bush (mixture of native and introduced foliage) and, beyond, the middle stretch of the Hutt Valley. It really is a nice view. I get woken in the morning by native birds singing. Lovely.
There is a cat to feed. Judging by this weekend past, I will see the cat precisely twice every day, for morning food and for evening food.
Downside of being on a hill is the total inaccessibility of public transport. Not my preference at all. So I have long-term borrowed the family’s second car, and am blatting around in that when I need to go places. In a sense, it’s been quite liberating – the lack of options means I get to enjoy the driving without my inner tree-hugging hippy scolding me for not taking the train. And I do like driving. Cars are awesomely cool things, and it is damn good fun to race around in your personal race-around device.
Later today I go to the dentist for a checkup. First time since 2001 or so. Yeek.
Gosh, what a content-free blog post. Oh well.

7 thoughts on “Up A Hill”

  1. I just found out you were housesitting today by talking to your Mum. Having your own car is good, but can be annoying if you spend much time with people who don’t have their own cars and almost expect you to chauffer them.
    Also, Boo! Dentists!! Except for my Dentist who is one of my bestfriends’ Dad. Although I have been avoiding him for the last couple of years… I just don’t want to pay or know!

  2. Good grief, you must be just round the corner from me. I’m on Matuhi Street, and the view where I am is awesome. Where are you?
    Just count yourself lucky you weren’t here in summer, when the native birds get drowned out by millions and millions of cicadas competing to see who can drive you deaf first. Ever heard a cicada stridulating while *inside* a cat’s echoey mouth? It’s really quite disconcerting…

  3. content free? what the? that had heaps of content. for example, who knew there was a hillside suburb called tirohanga. certainly not me.

  4. giffy – i have years of chauffeur experience. but now I am Hard Drinking Man, i have much driving karma to be paid off by others. This is the ace up my sleeve.
    ivan – yeah, we are very close. I’m on Pomare St. Something must be done! A visit is in order!
    hottie-p – content-free by my illustrious standards, you heathen

  5. Sweet, drop me a line (ivan.at.h.e.s.t.i.a.dot.c.c) and we’ll get together for a beer and a rant or something.

  6. Posts that mention cats are never content free.
    The interwub consists of pictures of cats, and porn.
    …I’d never heard of Tirohanga either; but I’m glad to see that NZ Post has. I was worried for a moment there.

  7. I was all set to post this morning, ‘cat has run away forevar’, because it didn’t come to eat evening food until after I went to sleep at 2.30am. But there it was in the a.m., miaowing away for its breakfast. Silly cat. 🙂

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