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shoulder closed

walking down a new road

hoorah this little walkway has been shut for months as they've been tarting it up. now it looks lovely and open. so i walked down it. nicely.

the day we went to play on the motorway

here's a bit of a story for you. i've haven't really posted much life stuff on this blog as i've been doing that elsewhere.

however, i thought you might find this interesting.

yesterday in between (and during) rain showers we walked on a new bit of motorway in central auckland

it was open for 4 hours only as a celebration of all that is great about motorways and engineering and being a kiwi.

this giant blue crane was the magic behind constructing the new motorway bridge

and next weekend it'll be shut to traffic so they can do the final switcheroo

so for one day only you could walk along and enjoy the view and inginuity

in the rain

beside the view over the sides there were plenty of bollards to admire

and you could look down at all the spare bits of bridge they had left over (that always used to happen with airfix kids didn't it)

there's the motorway going up the hill in the distance just to prove it is all connected.

and here's some detailed instructions about the big blue crane thing

to be honest, it didn't look particularly solid from underneath. but i did an electronics degree, so what do i know.

there were hundreds of peoples taking their sunday afternoon stroll on the road

and it really felt like a lovely community thing. they even put some diggers out for kids to climb in and pretend to drive (there were no keys in them)

and i was delighted to see some gloves near this roller

there they are look. i don't think they were workmen's ones. unless workmen wear blue woollen gloves.

i loved it despite the rain. it's great to celebrate big feats of engineering and this was done in a lovely community way. we even got postcards to show we'd been there.

great stuff.

next street

the facts of life

there's something very cool ("sweet as") about the way white lines are drawn over here. rather than being a solid line of which paper they seem to be made up of lots of runny drops