I am so over blanket cloud this summer but there was an invasion of mega clouds yesterday evening. They billowed up from behind the hills like a puff of pure white mass of fluff. There were similar clouds on the hills behind the house cascading down the... Some days the action comes to your part of the world. Cyclists tell us that the Kaitoke hill is the killer hill not the Rimutaka Hill Road where these were heading for stage one of the Tour of New Zealand race today. My family just don’t seem to appreciate that photography takes time. Enough time for a rest at least! Through the undergrowth home beckons. At this point I wish we had a nifty gate through our back fence. Instead it’s around 15 minutes basset waddling around the lane and down the front drive. One day in the not too distant future the house will be hidden... There was a screeching of brakes when I first met this little lady. Heaven knows where she came from but she almost met her maker under my car. When I got out of the car to check she was still alive she scuttled up to me as tame as anything. To avoid any further... 