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... 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... Until we get a couple of pigs I won’t feel like we are truly living the New Zealand dream. Whilst we’ve got the dream house, the chickens, the bassets it’s not until we have a couple of porkers fattening in the bush will I think we’ve really... 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... New Zealand was rattled last night by the strongest earthquake since the big one that destroyed Napier in the 1930s. It was a 7.8 magnitude shake and lasted several minutes. The quake hit in the south of the South Island but was felt right across the country. I... 