Around The World In 80 Waves

When buying some supplies I bought a bottle of sunflower oil to assist with my cooking. I thought I had secorely stowed it away where it couldn’t be broken.

However I am horrified when I stop for lunch on the road from Opunake to Wellington, where I will catch a ferry to the South island later in the day, because I climb into the back of the van to see cooking oil pouring out of the cupboard. 

The bottle has toppled over as a result of a bump in the road and a faulty cap has fallen off resulting in the whole bottle pouring out while I have been obliviously driving. The oil is on everything and it takes me ages to clear everything up.

It isn’t quite the damage of the Exxon Valdez in Alaska or BP’s Deepwater Horizon in the Gulf of Mexico but it takes me an eternity to clean up, and even then leaving a fine film of oil on just about everything in a three metre radius.

Not happy!