OK….so just for a little bit I weakened. I decided to grab a Macdonalds from the drive-thru in Petone. For the experience factor of course….so ALL in the name of science right?? First thing I noticed, is this particular drive-thru happens to be a 24hr one on Fridays and Saturdays which would be handy if the food they sold was at all edible.

Disgusted is the nicest word I can use for the results of my experience, they had this meal called a Kiwi Combo, and well; maybe they assumed I was a tourist or something??? Because when I got home with it, the burger which is basically a lamb burger stank of stale cigarettes - and I mean really reaked….suffice to say it ended up in the bin where it probably originated from back at the drive through and my lesson has been learned. I would have gone back to complain but they have actually done me a HUGE favour, as I will definatley think twice before having any fast food.

In other news? Let me see….The Wellington Brass Band schedule for Christmas kicks of tomorrow, and Kirckdales (think Harrods in London except this is New Zealands take on it) we will be playing here for about an hour every Friday leading up to Christmas. I also have to sneak out of work before 17.30hrs in order to achieve this feat; therefore I intend to buy our team some morning breakfast as a bit of bribery (plus I am overdue to shout morning tea =P) anyways - more later. My bed is calling my name and I need to get up early in the morning.

Also in even more news, I don’t know whether to be elated or shocked, but apparently using the word ‘bomb’ in my last post attracted a LOT of attention to the blog, and I hit an all time high of 80 concurrent browsers (or bots to be fair so not necessarily people)….not too surprising although to be fair it could just be that a lot of people out there actually like MacGuyver like me - I truly hope it’s the latter!