Skid and crunch - not a good sound...

Well it's been a while since my last blog. And a while since I cut my fingernails because they're getting in the way of my typing.

Summer seems to have finally come and gone for New Zealand yet again. We've had a lot of good weather lately, but only lately. Now we are expecting a cold snap tomorrow, with snow in some parts and it's only the start of Autumn.

I was interrupted from my thoughts just then because there was a(nother) car accident outside of our house. Looks like someone came around the corner too fast and skidded on the wet road, spinning across to the other side and ending up rear-ending someone's stone wall. We thought it was a hatchback, until the towie pryed it from the wall and it was in fact a sedan! Me thinks the car's going to the wreckers after tonight. That was our 30 minutes of reality tv.

Last week it was a car that didn't even make it around the corner. It drove straight through the bend, over the road island, knocking through someone's fence and then lodged itself into another house. There have been numerous bang ups on little Wellington Road, each one making your heart skip a beat when you hear that ominous screech and then a crunch. Perhaps it has something to do with the short 70kph speed zone just before it, that suddenly changes to a 50 zone as you get to the corner. It would make a whole lot more sense if the whole stretch (and it's only a small one) was a 50 zone. Anyway, these things may have contributed to the 7 properties having been sold along this road in the last year and a half. Our neighbour told us that even our property was crashed into years ago, causing a gas leak. Let's hope people take a little more caution on the roads. And easy on the rubber-necking too folks! Also, be careful rushing to the windows wearing socks on polished floors.