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Photo taken in the middle of Winter on a cold morning down one of the little side streets in town. There is apparently a good Asian restaurant down here on the right that we keep meaning to try and where the bicycles are is a bike shop. I'm actually surprised that there are still public phone boxes as most people have cellphones.

We have had the most wild weather I think I've seen in literally years. Much of the South Island of New Zealand has been wopped with a bad storm to the point where everyone's electricity went off for a few hours, trees were down, there were road slips and roads into different areas were closed. We are all good now but it's been a wild event. The town had no water supply for a day due to a bolt of lightning hitting one of the reservoir pumps but thankfully many people like myself have tank water (ours is 36,000 ltrs) and the council and some local businesses were offering temporary water supply from other sources. As usual the locals were going on and on over social media blaming the council for an uncontrollable weather event.

Linking up with Weekend Reflections and The Weekend Roundup.

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