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.
yesterday in between (and during) rain showers we walked on a new bit of motorway in central auckland
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it was open for 4 hours only as a celebration of all that is great about motorways and engineering and being a kiwi.
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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)
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to be honest, it didn’t look particularly solid from underneath. but i did an electronics degree, so what do i know.
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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)
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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.