Steamin Along

Today I left a fantastic museum location, high up in the hills, where the night was dark & silent, & the lambs came to see me in the morning. I had a nice rest & got a lot of my costume made, & also spent an hour and a half going through the museum. And that was a quick look! That place is Huge. The Mt  Bruce Museum It’s set on a working farm, on the owners property, & has been their lifetime hobby. Just fantastic, & I saw things I’ve never seen before. Many of them. That’s always great when you’re mature in years. Sharpening stone Washing machine Milk can scales Cookbooks For my farmer brother Accordian for my cousin Phonograph #8 Gas mask Extreme cooking challenges Soldiers hot water urn 1896 high fashion Corsetry  Butter churn Fantastic rock collections Then it was on to Masterton for fuel & food shopping. An interesting place, with a very fresh feel. Quite modern & well looked after. Such a contrast from some of the settlements I’ve been through on t

 I had a casualty last night, in the culinary area. Gutted that I broke my favourite casserole dish & lost meals for a couple of nights too. I can’t risk eating the delicious venison sausages a friends have me as a thank you gift, for d some help I gave them along the way. Luckily I had portioned out last nights meal from the rest, before dropping the lid onto the rest of the meals in the dish, & breaking it, all over the gas Hobbs 🤦‍♀️  Such a waste 😢  What a fun cleanup that was 😂 Not! I scooped it all up hoping to save the food, but it will have ceramic shards in it, & I don’t think my digestive system is quite up to that 😂 And the rest of the pipis are going to the other guys here for fish bait I’ve decided. There must have been a reason why the gulls weren’t eating then. I just thought they were too slow 😂 Not worth risking my health over, that’s for sure. Not when driving is essential to what I do, & I’m out in the wild.  I had gathered them at high tide mark