Month: January 2026

Midsummer brings with it happy, content, tubby animals and fruit, lots of fruit! Ahh Pica has really mastered the napping technique well. She has 3 beds like the above that she goes between during the day following the sun and desired outlook. After returning from our travels the weather was great for a while as …

Over this last week all the photos have come in from Luca’s travels. They are incredible, there are literally hundreds of them, I have tried to contain myself and not put them all on, here are some of my favourites… We asked Luca if he missed anything while on the boat, his response was he …

The bees are the busiest I have seen them. They won me some gardening vouchers recently, (a local competition), I will be rewarding them by buying more fruit trees, because who doesn’t need more fruit trees 🙂 Our buzzy friends continue to enable the vege garden to thrive, I am so appreciative, we are eating …

It would be fair to say Rich and I were holding our breath when we got to Nelson dock, hoping/wanting the trip to have gone well for Luca. Dropping him off he looked very unsure, and we worried we had put him into a situation that he would absolutely hate. We, along with a group …

Where to begin?!!!! The new year brought the sun, and it has continued since. Our little cabin in the hills, even more beautiful when the☀️ shines… The views as the sun rose and set were incredible!!!! We had taken Bananagrams, between that and our books, downtime was taken care of nicely. I have completed 2 …