Hadley Dryden says there have been low flying kereru swooping a few metres above the road along the Thames -Tapu coast.
"This has happened enough to prompt one local to erect this sign as a warning," he says.
Teens' paradise
Lucky Merv has booked a 10-day holiday in
Vanuatu in September and when he downloaded some info from their tourism site, some amusing things emerged:
"Duty Free - All inbound tourists aged 15 and over, can bring in 200 cigarettes or 250g of tobacco or 50 cigars or 100 cigarillos, 1.5 litres of alcohol and 2 litres of wine. The legal age for drinking is 18 but this is rarely policed. Drink driving is also illegal but is rarely policed."
Supermarket wrath over grapes
Grape thievery a necessity? Michael writes: "The quality of grapes in supermarkets can vary - from the luscious, sweet and flavoursome to the tasteless, sour and tough. The honest shopper has to make a guess as to which the current shipment is. Colour and smell are not reliable indicators, so it is largely a matter of buyer beware. If samples were freely available there could be piles of fruit, rightly rejected by informed buyers. Hands up all those who have ever surreptitiously taken a 'sample' from a bunch of grapes? Quite a few of you judging by a new sign at Rotorua's Pak 'n Save. Strategically placed above the grape bin it reads: "Avoid Embarrassment. Please don't eat our produce before you pay for it. Minimum charge at checkout if caught is $5." The honest and fastidious shopper must now buy one grape, cost about 5c, and return to get a bunch if it is up to standard."
Travel weary
Simon travels in to the CBD from the far flung reaches of the North Shore and has also encountered some "how-long-will-it take" road signs. "Us Shore-ites don't have your fancy signs, but we do have 'travel time' with Snitch GPS (as broadcast on Newstalk ZB). Daily, the lovely lady on ZB tells us road-weary commuters that it'll be, '30 minutes from Tristram to Onewa', yet it always takes an hour, sometimes longer. That said, every morning she does give us all a fleeting sense of hope that it will ONLY take 30 minutes, which is nice! Obviously no one who works at Snitch GPS (or Newstalk ZB!) lives on the North Shore!"
Selective postcodes
Letters without postcodes being returned: Lorna writes ... "I sent a card to a friend on the other side of town and had it returned because I didn't know her postcode. I hand-delivered it a few days later, but the funny thing was that my return address didn't have the postcode either but the card came back OK - and it turned out that our codes were the same!"
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