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 us to “change the battery pack” so we couldn’t capture it on film so you’ll have to make do with a shot from the internet. You can find out all about rainbow-rainbows at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rainbow

It was indeed a beautiful sight and we could see when the pot of gold was buried. I’d be lying if I said it was in our back garden but it was close enough! With or without a rainbow pot of gold you can’t beat our back view for sunsets. Tonight’s was a particularly vivid pink with fluffy clouds flying over the hills. It’s the sort of view that you simply have to put into your memory bank and think about on a bad day.

I’m not sure Fortnum and Mason appreciated the wonder of it all. They were trotting along trying to get back as soon as possible and get out of the wet.

I think it’s fair to say winter has arrived. The tell tale signs are the extra duvet on the bed, the fire on every evening, winter coat out of the cupboard and a general new ruddiness to people’s faces as a they brave the biting chill of the Wellington wind.

But, it’s better than this time last year when we were beset with rain, winds and general all round unhappiness with the weather. Also, snow storms that caused havoc. The snow has arrived in the chilly southland on the South Island and the ski fields are opening for the winter season. Personally I can’t wait until we’re off to the tropics at the end of July.

No doubt that the colder weather brings new topics of conversations. We have the daily competition as to where in Wellington it’s coldest. I feel I won hands down this week as on Monday we were showing 1 degree in Khandallah.

Even if its cold, we need the rain to hold off. Can’t build houses when everthing is wet.

I was recently blogging about the indian summer we were enjoying in NZ. Sorry to tell you that this has now broken into a monsoon season.

Since the beginning of May we’ve had 79.4 mm of rain in Wellington. To those not used to metric that’s just over 3 inches.

It’s been torrential rain battering down through the night and keeping me awake. It seems that there are no half measures in New Zealand when it comes to weather – no April showers here, it’s gales and flood proportion precipitation.

I’ve been fretting about our house floor which was laid so beautifully but now will have been pounded by the rain. Let’s hope that the roof goes on soon and starts to give it some protection. Am also worried that my piles of topsoil have experienced slips and ended up at the bottom of the garden. Will have to wait to the weekend to see, fingers crossed it doesn’t rain again tonight.