Once a store; now it's a bar

Had the grandboys to stay overnight. Instead of reading the agenda after they went to bed I indulged with watching New Zealand beat Australia at rugby. They are SOOOOO fast. Both sides, and unlike South Africa a week ago, Australia didn't wilt at the end.

Of course the lads were early risers. However, as I was being backed up by S in terms of child minding, I went out for a morning run. Took a 10 minute shot; happened to be of a Greer Twiss sculpture I have blipped before. Then shots on way to and from the top of Maungawhau. Variations on a theme.

On the way home, I reached this lovely old building on the corner of Nikau Street and Mount Eden Road. It appealed because of the sun striking the advertisement for sunlight soap, a standard laundry item in my youth. The wording in the grey is "L1,000 Guarantee of Purity". Pounds, not dollars. An original sign, refurbished.

I had a pretty good idea that this was about 10 minutes away from home (different way to how I went on outward journey). So I checked. Okay; I did reduce to a walk a bit further away than I might have if it were not for the challenge. But pleasingly (for an obsessional type) it was precisely 10mins by my watch to the front of the apartment building.