More muck and raking

We’re living on a building site again. In fact, as I write this blog there is an enormous truck delivering metal (that’s road gravel) moving past my window.After months of waiting the ground works people have returned to finish of the drive and spread the...

Gardening for style

Great excitement this weekend – we’ve planted our hedge that will in time grow to be a stylish surround for our herb and salad bed. Our hedge arrived by courier in two banana boxes – 120 Buxus sempervirens (English Box). The aim is to make an...

The land and house that never was

Loyal blogger readers will remember that our house building dreams haven’t entirely run a smooth course. For new readers, here’s the crux of our story.Anyway, we were out yesterday with the bassets walking the Rimutaka Incline Trail which is a recreational...

Drought to floods

New Zealand has weather warnings today that we’re about to be deluged with rain with a threat of tornadoes. Just as well we managed to get the rain collection from the barn roof connected to the main water tank today. This means we’ll now be able to...

Autumnal colour at last!

It was another mini milestone this week with the arrival of some autumnal colour at last. This was in the shape of our first delivery of trees – 42 in all – about 50% of the first tranch of planting to be done.It was quite a sight to see the HGV delivery...