All around the local countryside there are pink ribbons hanging on trees. This is not a symbolic gesture of support to fight breast cancer but a more practical and visible indicator of local pest control. In the main it’s to show where the local environment protection officers have been laying bait and traps to keep [...]
Fourteen Years ago today – 29 July – MT and I were married. Oh how much and how little we’ve changed in that time. It’s traditional on your anniversary to exchange gifts and do something special to celebrate the achievement of marriage for another year. We did of course but unlike almost every other one [...]
Whilst I adore my bassets they are a constant worry and never more so when they are poorly. The bassets and I have been getting up close and personal in recent days. A closeness of bodily functions I’d rather not have experienced. They’ve picked up some sort of bacteria from their sniffing ways which has [...]
Jack Frost paid an unexpected visit overnight so we woke up to early sunshine and frosts. It was mighty chilly I can tell you, so chilly that George the pesky rooster wasn’t rushing out from the chicken house this morning to bully all the other hens. The hens were braver and got the benefit of [...]
Kiwi rail are still busy trying to rescue the train that was derailed on Thursday. We thought we go and do some rubber necking and see what we could see. MT was the intrepid photographer on assignment this morning. We didn’t get close up but were able to see the heavy machinery at work. Lots [...]
Heavy rain and gale force winds brought much of Wellington to a standstill today. One of the main casualties was the Wairarapa Train which was derailed after hitting a landslip just south of Maymourn where MT gets the train from. Fortunantely no one was injured in the accident but it’s brought the train line to [...]
My bassets are a constant worry to me but never more so when we’re at the river. These dogs are not water-wise. Despite my best endeavours to teach Fortnum and Mason to swim they have flatly refused to engage in such aquatic high jinx. Although Fortnum will happily paddle about in shallow water Mason is [...]
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