Brakelite:
Ok mate I actually lived in the wop wops for a spell near a hydro-electric plant at Mangaore. Don’t knock it. On the way to school I used to get banana passion fruit off the vines. I used to do a lot of tramping in the sticks and bush by myself or with my Dad. Never got lost though like some folks. Worked for a few cockies when I was a lad. Up at dawn with my gummies on.
Had my shark and taties every Friday night for my Dad’s sake.
Took my wife down-under to Levin years ago. She said they spoke like me and then she called me a Kiwi hillbilly. The nerve, right? She said I used to teach her English, the proper way….I said it was better than the Queen’s English.
Yep, I usually take the Tiki tour, it’s my style to enjoy the ride. And I still don’t get ‘lost.’
Man, this is like going down memory lane again…I feel again the NZ style of genuine love for one another and I have not forgotten the simplicity of friendship, and warm greetings in Aotearoa.
It’s all cool here with you and me, and here’s cheers mate, to being in Christ.
APAK
