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Had a wonderfull Christmas Day. Started early so I could head to Invercargill to catchup quickly with Kasharnae and the kids… I guess I was the only one up and bouncing around at 8:30 in the morning. Anyway poor Sharnz looked like death warmed up and it was a quick high and see ya as it looked like she was going to fall asleep talking to me. Who’s next… Daeree and Dan, but got there just in time to snap the family Xmas photo before they head off to celebrate with other families. Well I haven’t seen my sister Cole for sometime so it wasRead More →

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It was time to get last minute tasks done so all lawns and other chores completed. With Christmas Day tomorrow it was now time to relax and do some pre Xmas day training while the sun shines. Tom feels that a stab at Shanky’s Whip is just the kick off needed for a good Xmas eve evening and I’m not arguing. It was also important to enjoy the sun as it was forecast for rain and cooler temps tomorrow. Enjoyed a great night with Tom, Kimberly and Jude.Read More →

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We have been trying to get out to sea with my grandson Pheno for a bit of fishing and paua, unfortunately those damn weather gods have not been playing fair. Jude and I had done quite a lot of maintenance and repairing on Aftershock and thought we might as well test all the systems in Lake Manapouri over two days. The weather at Manapouri was fantastic… better than we expected and so it was decided we will spend the night out on the lake as well at Stockyard Cove, a very secluded and protection location from just about all points of the compass. First dayRead More →

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“What a difference a day makes”… well in Southland it’s “What a difference a month makes” lol. Summer is here…. Sort of? Well if you go by the progress of the garden it is. freshly laid lawn starting to sprout after 8 days of nothing, all the new raised bed are looking good, the bee patch is shooting away, the tunnel house has gone ballistic and the potato patch is looking like it will be a good crop. A lot of hard grafting went into preparing the raised beds and tunnel house and of course the virtually indestructible garden shed built from pallets (the ideaRead More →

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It’s that time of the year when little outside jobs on equipment etc needs to be done. Working on the boat while waiting for an opening in the weather for a flat sea and suddenly there was what I thought to be a reasonable earthquake. Turns out Blake the 8 year old chocolate Labrador had spotted a bird nest down the drawbars box section and was determined to get it if he had to dismantle the boat and trailer to do so. A quick snarl at him from me to try and get him to stop and yep he’s turned of his hearing and keepsRead More →

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The entrance to the main road from the farm cottage is 1/2 a kilometre away but the sound of a truck with the brakes biting in to pull up a weighty load manage to wake me up with a “What the fuck!” Response. Looking out the bedroom window of our cosy motorhome only to see a behemoth of a truck with orange lights flashing and a trail of support vehicles stopped at the entry gate analysing the width and outlay of the drive before continuing. Curiosity got me out of my cosy bed to watch the unit travel down the driveway. Jude identified the itemRead More →