We knew it was on its way. Rain and wind that is. But sometimes a weather forecast can’t do justice to what happens in reality. As a Brit, I just can’t help myself talking about the weather but more than than when you live in the country it matters more. Also if you’ve got piles [...]
Whilst the Americas have been enjoying enduring the hurrican season we have been basking in early Spring sunshine. It was of course too good to last and back on schedule with the Spring equinox, the gales of Spring have arrived here in New Zealand. In case you didn’t know The Equinox occurs when the sun [...]
Yay, normal service has been returned to the Kaitoke Forest. It was music to my ears to learn from our neighbours that the path through the forest has been cleared after the storm. Regular readers might recall that one of our favourite walking routes had been blocked by fallen trees. We hot footed it up [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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