Although snuggling up at home is fun there comes a point where you need a change of scene. We ventured out today and managed to get the dogs a walk for about 20 minutes before the heavens opened again. This picture shows the extent of the storm damage to our neighbours land. They’ve been working [...]
We knew it was coming our way, the storm from the Tasman that’s been brewing for days. There was nothing that really prepared us for it though. It’s wet and wild. And I mean wild. This picture shows the trees down close to the Upper Hutt Council offices. Upper Hutt is our nearest town. More [...]
I got married 13 years ago today. In 1995 it was one of the hottest days of the year. Today was one of the hottest days this week so we decided to head to the beach. Suitably dressed in a number of layers we arrived at Paekakariki beach on the west coast north of Wellington [...]
Our hen’s first egg sat pride of place in the last box of eggs I expect to buy from the supermarket. Just in case you can’t recognise it I’m pointing it out for you! It was a tough decision whether to poach, scramble, boil or fry our first egg. I got the privilege of cooking [...]
There are some things you need when you’re feeling unwell. One of the is food that will comfort you. Imagine my delight when I found out that my dear husband had snuck one of our favourite comfort foods into the shopping trundler as we stocked up on our holiday provisions. Although we’re now having staycation [...]
New Zealand is currently being bashed about by a massive sub-tropical cyclone. This is bringing floods, destruction to power lines on top of the usual chilling misery of winter. Fortunately for us the worst of the weather is further north but nevertheless it feels pretty bad here. According to the weather predictors the air pressure [...]
Just over an hour ago I posted a blog entry that has change the world I live in. I don’t mean in an earthshattering way – Oh OK, I do. You simply must believe what happened – I’m an honest girl, honest! To find out the power of blogging you must read my earlier post [...]
Look an egg in our chickens’ nesting box. Ha, had you fooled eh?! I’m not fooling the chickens either. This is one of the “pretend” eggs that we’ve put in to try and persuade them to produce something similar. We wouldn’t want anything identical because these are made of plastic and won’t bake a cake [...]
UPDATE – UPDATE – UPDATE Around half an hour after I posted part one of this blog you’ve never heard such a commotion in the chicken run. It made the dogs go crazy, even the dogs in the neighbours barking too. On investigation I found George strutting around the chicken run and the hens taking [...]
The New Zealand Met Service are advising people to wear at least 4 layers of clothing tonight to protect themselves from the storms facing Wellington with windchill factors that make an 8 degrees temperature feel more like 2 degrees. I know but I can’t help it, I’m British. My obsession about the weather has not [...]
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