We get very few visitors. It’s not that we don’t have friends on neighbours to call it’s just so darn far for most people to come and for our neighbours they are engrossed in their own piece of paradise to be bothered with us. Imagine the... Sorry about that short interruption. I’m back after a couple of days. What’s my excuse? Frozen fingers, toes and being very very cold. Oh and busy earning a crust to feed my chickens too. Yes, it’s winter twinkle in August here in the southern... Have you ever spent one of those days saying to your dog, cat, child, husband, whoever – no, stop it, don’t do that, Agggh! Well, it’s been a bit like that with the bassets so we thought it was time to refresh their training regime.So today it was... My husband will tell you I am directionally challenge but today I arrived in a real nice place. You know how it is with the Internet. You start following links and before you know where you are you’ve been through the virtual spaghetti junction and lost not just... 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... 