There is no doubt that we are heading into autumn. The mornings and evenings are getting darker, the wind that bit chillier and the blackberries are out in the lane.
I pottered out to see if I could find some to make a crumble but looks like Bob and Sheila had snaffled them all [...]
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That autumn feeling
Posted in Bob's photoblogging, Country life, Photoblogging on March 10, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Water, water
Posted in Country life on February 16, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Down in Golden Bay there is no shortage of water. In fact we saw some of the purest water to be found. Pity that other parts of New Zealand are missing this, there has been drought declared in the Waikato region. As one of the largest farming regions in New Zealand this [...]
Rainbow, rainbow
Posted in Basset blogging, Country life, Kiw weather on January 27, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
It’s not been a basset friendly day. We woke up to drizzle and our evening constitutional to spy on Mike and Andrea’s house was in the wet too. But wow was it worth it to be able to see rainbow-rainbow. Yes a double rainbow.
Oh course this was just the time for the camera to tell [...]
Tell them about the honey!
Posted in Country life, Food from our land on January 12, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
There was a parcel left on our veranda today from Al our beekeeper friend. Our first Treanor Honey!
It was amazing to see the first produce from our very own land. Admittedly we’re relied entirely on Al to do the hard work – oh and the bees of course!
After a moment of joy, sheer [...]
It’s a scorcher
Posted in Country life, Domestic Executive Musings on January 3, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
As part of my efforts to put a little spice into this blog I thought I talk about the heat we are having at the moment. Compared to last year it’s a heat wave. Come to think of it, I think it’s a heat wave per se.
Yes in the last 9 weeks we’ve had hardly [...]
Neighbours – who’d have them?!
Posted in Country life on December 31, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Hurray, new neighbours. After the steers were moved from the the paddock it’s been lonely with no friends to talk to.
Fear not, we’ve got new neighbours this week. The dinkiest, sweetest family of goats – billy, bessy and their little kids.
Dramatic scenes today though as I turned into the lonely goat herder. They obviously didn’t [...]
Country living
Posted in Country life on November 28, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Phew back where a country mouse can feel more comfortable after two days hacking into town. Boy is life as a domestic executive much more appealing.
After doing my stint this week I’m all ready to down shift into a slower pace. I fear that this is unlikely to be possible given that we’ve [...]
Commuting rural style
Posted in Country life on November 19, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
MT cuts a lonely figure at the commuting rush hour. Yes Maymourn station has the grand total of 4 commuting passengers. He takes great delight on an evening to be the only person getting off the train. It’s quite something to be dictating that a loco with 5 carriages should grind to [...]
Domestic routines
Posted in Country life on November 16, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
We’ve been all of a dither this week. Our domestic routine has gone to the dogs.
Getting to grips with MT commuting was simple – lift to dinky station and back again. Nothing hard about that. Getting two people to town, well that takes a bit more consideration. After two attempts we think we’ve worked it [...]
