Sunday 10th August
We slept in this morning – it was fairly late when we got up. We had a lazy day and at about 3-30 pm, we went to Halswell Mall. I filled a rigger and we got some food from New World – Fish for tea and a few othr things.
When we had finished lunch, I went down to the garage to have a look at the car to see if I could find what the problem was with it.
The first thing I found, was that it would not start. There was no sign of life at all and it seemed that the battery was dead flat.
I pushed it out and parked it at the front where I could have a good look at it. As soon as I opened the bonnet – I saw right away where the oil was coming from. The oil filler cap was off and there was oil everywhere. It would seem that when I topped the oil up just before we left, I had not secured it properly.
I disconnected the battery and connected the charger to it. I cleaned away as much of the oil that I could by wiping it away with paper towels.
By the time I had reconnected it to go to Halswell, it had been on charge for about three hours.
I was relieved when it started immediately. I had about half a litre of oil left from the bottle that I had bought just before going to Australia so I put that into the engine before we left. That brought the level to approximately where it should be.
When we had finished our shopping, we took a drive to Tai Tapu. As usual, we had a look at the hotel. It was really busy. I have never seen so many cars there.
We came home and had a few drinks followed by dinner. This fish that I had bought – Hoki – was really tasty.
We settled down to watch the Olympic Games. They had started in Beiging, China, the day before I left Australia to come home.
I have found that I cannot get my Laptop to connect to the Internet. Neither the Wireless link, or the Ethernet link will connect.
I have tried everything but no matter what I do, it will not go on line.
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Regards
Laurie Leathem
http://www.leathmac.com
http://www.leathmac.blogspot.com
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