Oh! what a day....

Oh! what a day yesterday was  ...  hope to never have to repeat it ..... will be one of those days that will live on in the memory for ever.

As I said in the previous post I went to the funeral ... in torrential rain from start to finish this was  including graveside service ..... I came home to change and had to hang everything up to dry including shoes as I stepped out of the car the water was above my ankles at the  funeral parlour by the side of the drive .... I just did not see it.

So dry and dressed now for a celebration I left the house for the  drive to the wedding ... may be three quarters of an hours drive  on a normal day ...  but it was still torrential rain falling..
I drove for  30minutes to reach  the Mangorewa/Kaharoa Gorge on SH36 (Tauranga Direct and Pyes Pa roads) between Rotorua and Tauranga ... which would have normally taken  15 mins max.  the water had been getting deeper as I drove,  but of course as soon as I hit the hills leading up to the gorge at Kaharoa the water was coming towards me at a rate of knots ... cars were beginning to aquaplane and it was difficult to control the car in a straight line ...  by this time I was now approaching  the gorge and I finally decided this was not on  and I would have to abandon the drive to the wedding and find somewhere to turn around and head home .... I had to continue through the gorge as there was no place or likely hood of turning around ... finally found a gravel entrance and did a 30 point turn in the narrow space ( same as other drivers were doing) and headed back home.

I was devastated that I did not get to the wedding ... but I was really glad to be home and safe .... so after something to eat I finally  packed myself of to bed with the electric blanket on to watch The Australian series  " The Man from Snowy River "  I have the complete boxed set of the programme, I loved it when I first saw it  first time  around   ???    that many years ago, and when I saw it in the Warehouse I just had to treat myself to it.

I really will be glad when 2012 arrives I have a feeling that 2011 has been nothing but small disasters for me one way and another. Luckily none of  them have been to serious, just enough to make a nuisance of themselves.