Spring is on the horizon , you can feel it in the air, see it in the bulbs poking their heads through the ground and buds breaking out on the trees. Even some early flowering…. The above flowers were picked at Long Beach on this amazing day! There have been spectacular sunrises , turning into …

The beginning of the holidays was very wet, the snowdrops which are prolific over our property, are starting to flower, they are loving the rain. The Science Festival is held all over Dunedin, different institutions take part, the museum being one. We took Luca and Olivia for the day. First we saw a documentary on …

Luca has been doing what we used to call “manual” when we were at school. It is teaching practical skills like home economics, wood working, metal work etc. He and his class travel every Wednesday into Dunedin to one of the bigger schools to learn these arts. Luca loves it. The sushi fish board above …

Winter is here and so far it has been kind, for the most part sunny and blue. We are even past the shortest day, daylight hours are on the up! 🙂 There has been the odd frost, does not stop the chooks enjoying what the orchard has to offer. We are still getting eggs, but …

It is a wet, windy morning here, still dark outside, the fire is roaring and the boys and Pica still sound asleep, our boys above are currently crowing in the new day. They have really mastered it now 🙂 We have been making the most of the levels dropping and exploring parts we have not …

Well we are at level 2!!! The kids are back in school, and a lot are back to work. I am back in my clinic too, and made the drive back into Dunedin for the first time since 25 March. I am the only plunket nurse in Otago/Southland to be back in a clinic, there …

The old shed has come up really beautifully. Actually it was used as a stable for the horses they used to run on this land before the people we brought it from, took over. We can still see how it was set up for that . The clearing to the right is the start of …

Tomorrow, the country moves from level 4 shutdown to level 3, for us it means not much change really, but for a limited number of businesses it means they can open under strict rules. We have not been into Dunedin since the 25th of March, Luca and I have not been into Port since then …

The boys finished the trail and it is awesome, check out the views! That is Port Chalmers village below, looking across to the harbor cone (the volcano we climbed this time last year). The trail keeps us all fit, and saves my sanity after long days of work. While they were working on it and …

NZ is in lock down because of COVID and has been since Wednesday at midnight…. This time last week we were at the beach and Luca was swimming. So happy we did, as we are not supposed to be in our cars now except for getting food and medicine, or need to get to a …