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We opened yesterday’s show with a trip, down under to Australia and staying in that neck of the world, we started today’s programme by looking at an issue suffered by one family who decided to uproot from their home in New Zealand and re-locate in Australia.

Unfortunately things went slightly awry all due to a misplaced wheelchair.

The family had been booked on a flight from Christchurch on the 13th January but after waiting patiently for 3 hours after landing at Melbourne, panic set in as there was no sign of their cat, Mittens, who was supposed to be accompanying them, albeit in the luggage hold.

Enquiries revealed that the plane, along with Mittens still aboard, had returned to Christchurch, a flight lasting about 7 and a half hours.

Fortunately, as soon as the pilot had been alerted to the unexpected stowaway aboard, he turned on the heating in the hold to try to make Mittens more comfortable.

So where did the wheelchair come in?

Well it seems it had been stowed in the hold in such a way as to block the baggage handlers view of Mitten’s cage.

Upon landing back in New Zealand, Mittens was met by the company employed to look after the cat’s transfer and ensure she was safely returned to Melbourne on another plane.

Air New Zealand apologised for the error and refunded all the additional costs that had been incurred.

It seems that Mittens had lost weight but otherwise no worse for wear for her extended time in the air.

Hope she didn’t suffer any jet lag!

In the second hour we stayed firmly with our feet on the ground here in Brentwood as our resident historian looked back at a gentleman living at the start of the 19th century in Weald Park.

His name was SQUIRE CHRISTOPHER TOWER, who’d had plans to make Brentwood a centre for spinning goat wool. Although these plans didn’t quite work out as he’d hoped, undaunted by his initial failure, he did have some success in breeding goats, as Margaret explained.

If you missed what Margaret told me, you can catch it all again here: –

I very much hope to have the pleasure of your company again next week,
Scott

 
 
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We opened yesterday’s show with a trip, down under to Australia and staying in that neck of the world, we started today’s programme by looking at an issue suffered by one family who decided to uproot from their home in New Zealand and re-locate in Australia.

Unfortunately things went slightly awry all due to a misplaced wheelchair.

The family had been booked on a flight from Christchurch on the 13th January but after waiting patiently for 3 hours after landing at Melbourne, panic set in as there was no sign of their cat, Mittens, who was supposed to be accompanying them, albeit in the luggage hold.

Enquiries revealed that the plane, along with Mittens still aboard, had returned to Christchurch, a flight lasting about 7 and a half hours.

Fortunately, as soon as the pilot had been alerted to the unexpected stowaway aboard, he turned on the heating in the hold to try to make Mittens more comfortable.

So where did the wheelchair come in?

Well it seems it had been stowed in the hold in such a way as to block the baggage handlers view of Mitten’s cage.

Upon landing back in New Zealand, Mittens was met by the company employed to look after the cat’s transfer and ensure she was safely returned to Melbourne on another plane.

Air New Zealand apologised for the error and refunded all the additional costs that had been incurred.

It seems that Mittens had lost weight but otherwise no worse for wear for her extended time in the air.

Hope she didn’t suffer any jet lag!

In the second hour we stayed firmly with our feet on the ground here in Brentwood as our resident historian looked back at a gentleman living at the start of the 19th century in Weald Park.

His name was SQUIRE CHRISTOPHER TOWER, who’d had plans to make Brentwood a centre for spinning goat wool. Although these plans didn’t quite work out as he’d hoped, undaunted by his initial failure, he did have some success in breeding goats, as Margaret explained.

If you missed what Margaret told me, you can catch it all again here: –

I very much hope to have the pleasure of your company again next week,
Scott

 
 
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We opened yesterday’s show with a trip, down under to Australia and staying in that neck of the world, we started today’s programme by looking at an issue suffered by one family who decided to uproot from their home in New Zealand and re-locate in Australia.

Unfortunately things went slightly awry all due to a misplaced wheelchair.

The family had been booked on a flight from Christchurch on the 13th January but after waiting patiently for 3 hours after landing at Melbourne, panic set in as there was no sign of their cat, Mittens, who was supposed to be accompanying them, albeit in the luggage hold.

Enquiries revealed that the plane, along with Mittens still aboard, had returned to Christchurch, a flight lasting about 7 and a half hours.

Fortunately, as soon as the pilot had been alerted to the unexpected stowaway aboard, he turned on the heating in the hold to try to make Mittens more comfortable.

So where did the wheelchair come in?

Well it seems it had been stowed in the hold in such a way as to block the baggage handlers view of Mitten’s cage.

Upon landing back in New Zealand, Mittens was met by the company employed to look after the cat’s transfer and ensure she was safely returned to Melbourne on another plane.

Air New Zealand apologised for the error and refunded all the additional costs that had been incurred.

It seems that Mittens had lost weight but otherwise no worse for wear for her extended time in the air.

Hope she didn’t suffer any jet lag!

In the second hour we stayed firmly with our feet on the ground here in Brentwood as our resident historian looked back at a gentleman living at the start of the 19th century in Weald Park.

His name was SQUIRE CHRISTOPHER TOWER, who’d had plans to make Brentwood a centre for spinning goat wool. Although these plans didn’t quite work out as he’d hoped, undaunted by his initial failure, he did have some success in breeding goats, as Margaret explained.

If you missed what Margaret told me, you can catch it all again here: –

I very much hope to have the pleasure of your company again next week,
Scott

 
 
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We opened yesterday’s show with a trip, down under to Australia and staying in that neck of the world, we started today’s programme by looking at an issue suffered by one family who decided to uproot from their home in New Zealand and re-locate in Australia.

Unfortunately things went slightly awry all due to a misplaced wheelchair.

The family had been booked on a flight from Christchurch on the 13th January but after waiting patiently for 3 hours after landing at Melbourne, panic set in as there was no sign of their cat, Mittens, who was supposed to be accompanying them, albeit in the luggage hold.

Enquiries revealed that the plane, along with Mittens still aboard, had returned to Christchurch, a flight lasting about 7 and a half hours.

Fortunately, as soon as the pilot had been alerted to the unexpected stowaway aboard, he turned on the heating in the hold to try to make Mittens more comfortable.

So where did the wheelchair come in?

Well it seems it had been stowed in the hold in such a way as to block the baggage handlers view of Mitten’s cage.

Upon landing back in New Zealand, Mittens was met by the company employed to look after the cat’s transfer and ensure she was safely returned to Melbourne on another plane.

Air New Zealand apologised for the error and refunded all the additional costs that had been incurred.

It seems that Mittens had lost weight but otherwise no worse for wear for her extended time in the air.

Hope she didn’t suffer any jet lag!

In the second hour we stayed firmly with our feet on the ground here in Brentwood as our resident historian looked back at a gentleman living at the start of the 19th century in Weald Park.

His name was SQUIRE CHRISTOPHER TOWER, who’d had plans to make Brentwood a centre for spinning goat wool. Although these plans didn’t quite work out as he’d hoped, undaunted by his initial failure, he did have some success in breeding goats, as Margaret explained.

If you missed what Margaret told me, you can catch it all again here: –

I very much hope to have the pleasure of your company again next week,
Scott

 
 
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