Southern Man

Our friend Petey probably merits his own post. He's not actually a southern man, being from Hamilton on the north island, but he is a Speight's drinker (the brewery here in Dunedin where Amanda's going to school which puts out commercials featuring the so-called "Southern man"). The first thing most people notice about Petey is that he is 6'5" and 300 or so pounds. It is hard to overlook. He also has a mullet and mutton chops as you might have noted. And sometimes he wears a canary yellow track suit.
Like the van, a minor library of books, lots of vitamins and a set of dishes, Amanda and I inherited Petey from Amanda's friend, Molly, who studied at the University of Otago here in Dunedin over the past year, and introduced us. Petey's a rugby player - I think a prop? and he studies finance and, most importantly, he's really funny and he laughs at your jokes. Among the best phrases he's busted out - calling us all repeatedly "silly sausages" and saying something about fancying "a slap and tickle" which might actually beat the horizontal hokey pokey.