I met Tom Selleck’s stand in today. Gavin normally pours concrete, but his boss has given him a month off to hang out on a film set. The actor who played Magnum PI, is currently filming Ike: Thunder in June in Auckland, and is missing his famous moustache. The extra agencies are working overtime right now especially looking for cute Kiwi kids. The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe is being filmed around the Waitakeres, and the Power Rangers are also in town. Gavin was recently hired as an extra, and was saved by kids in catsuits after being chased by a man in a rubber suit.
While I was at Bobbie’s I also caught up with two of the Whanau, Greg whose DJ name is IDK - short for I Don’t Know, and Mad Mark who has just got back from deer hunting in the bush for 5 days. New Zealand must be one of the few places on the world where you can buy copies of pig hunting magazines, which usually have a hairy man on the cover wearing a check shirt and a dead boar. Hunting is a popular pastime especially in the South Island and when we moved to Maramarua, the neighbours said not to worry if we heard gunshots at night. It would probably just be locals out shooting possums. They are such a threat to the delicate ecosystem here that their fur comes with a WWF seal of approval.
 | Apparently the most popular pig hunting title is NZ Pig Hunter. In the NZ Magazine shop the most popular hobby titles are:
1. NZ Pig Hunter, 2. NZ Creative Stitch & Craft , 3. NZ Woodturner NZ, 4. NZ Model Railway Journal, 5. Rod & Rifle,6. NZ Guns & Hunting, 7. Sandra. |
What sort of hobby 'Sandra' is - I have no idea.
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