If I could put these pictures side by side you’d be able to see the light and dark of NZ’s microclimates in one place. Today it started wet, dark and miserable but by lunchtime the wind had started to blow the clouds away to leave a stunningly beautiful sunny day.

I don’t think it had anything to do with the clock’s changing, more of a southerly weather front travelling up the country. For those who want to make a call to us please remember we are 12 hours ahead of GMT after the clocks changed today. It will get complicated again when the UK clocks go forward for British Summer Time. Oh how confusing it all is but at least we only have one timezone to content with in this country unluck friends and family in US and Australia that have a continuous battled to synchronise the time.