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All hands and paws for tree planting!

20 June 2008 2 Comments

Although a little earlier than I was expecting our second delivery of trees came on Friday. It’s been all hands and paws on deck for tree planting as these trees came bare root so there was no time to waste before getting them into the ground. Given there was 40 to plant I brought in [...]

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All for this!

19 June 2008 1 Comment

Today was quite a big day – our residency approval in principle came through. All we need now is a new stamp in our passports and pay our migrant levy and we are home and dry. We’re celebrating with fush n chups and champagne. Hmm.. what a combination! I took this picture from one of [...]

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Clear and crisp and freezing

18 June 2008 1 Comment

A freezing blast has hit Kaitoke. It was -1 degrees on the car temperature this morning. The irony is that whilst we’re freezing here the ski fields of New Zealand are closed because the weather is not cold enough. Apparently that’s set to change this weekend with snow in the high mountains so that the [...]

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17 June 2008 Leave a Comment

It’s been an Executive Day today and theme today has been “stress”. I’m relieved to tell you this has been other people’s not mine – although it was a bit of a stretch getting back in time to get the bassets from their pet angel! I’ve got a “hotspot” about stress. This is coaching jargon [...]

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Memories of a sunny day

16 June 2008 Leave a Comment

Seems that MT brought the rotten weather with him back from Auckland yesterday and spoilt my day. It’s been raining and blowing a southerly gale. Definitely fire lighting weather again. Still I won’t be put off by a bit of cold wind I’ve got my memories of a sunny day from yesterday when the bassets [...]

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A beautiful day for a walk

15 June 2008 1 Comment

Today was a beautiful day. Bright sunshine, almost clear blue skies and a light breeze. Just the day for taking Fortnum and Mason for a walk. As I strolled along there was plenty of time to admire the views. You’ve got to understand the bassets need to take time with their sniffing you know. I [...]

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Ouch – that hurts!

14 June 2008 1 Comment

By the time I settled to watch the rugby last night my aches and pains from the gorse harvesting were already setting in. My pain was only made worse watching England battle against the all blacks. Despite the score 37-20 to the ABs, England put up a pretty good fight and had some moments of [...]

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Mammoth gorse harvest

13 June 2008 3 Comments

The bassets and I have had a very productive afternoon. Exhausting but very satisfying and we had glorious weather to brighten our day. After a couple of wet weekends it was important to restart the gorse harvest. We’ve got trees to put in but can’t do so until some of the gorse is cleared. So [...]

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Scaffolding down at last

12 June 2008 Leave a Comment

The scaffolding has finally come down on the neigbours new house. There’s been plenty of activity recently so it looks like the final push towards completion. My heart goes out to Mike and Andrea whose budget ran dry so they are having to do the painting themselves. I’ve seen them most days this week and [...]

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Bassets brave the river – not!

11 June 2008 4 Comments

Our bassets are not the bravest of creatures. Mason has a particularly endearing quality that when he sees something he doesn’t like or not sure of he’ll jump back on all four paws and hide, either behind us or behind Fortnum. It was an adventure to see how they coped with one of the walks [...]

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