Spring

"Evening"....things are starting to dry out slowly,I might be able to order my truckload of coal by next week ,it would be just too much to have to shovel it from the front to the back !!!!
Saw my first fritilaria today ,I'll photograph it tomorrow .Here are some more of Anthony Vickerstaff's photos .
On a completely different line .......heaven help the country if Mary Wilson takes over from Sean Plunket ,it's bad enough listening to her carping on at dinner time without having to wake up to it !!
Is there a TV channelout there that would like her ??????

Different viewpoint

Evening all ...the last time that I "posted" it was snowing ,now it is AGAIN,this has got to stop ,the snowdrops are finished and the daffodils have started ,so the bleeding snow should have stopped also ! mind you we cut a trailer load of willow wood this morning and stacked it so I'm not feeling too bad . Here are some photos taken by my WWOOFer ,he has a good camera and an interesting eye ,I hope that you enjoy them .
cheers ....Bob

A Sting in the Tail

Evening all ,Yesterday was a perfect spring day ,warm ,drying out, lots of flowers and then it b*****y snowed !!,I had all these jobs sorted out for my keen young Kiwi WWOOFer ,and then it snowed ,fortunately it was beautiful ,and it was gone by lunchtime [like the ACT party!!]. I have 60 little oak trees arriving tomorrow ,so I am planting them along a fenceline just above Rainers gate ,might do the other side next year ......Cheers.....

Olgas 97th

Nothing about Cambrian today ....just my mothers 97th birthday and some photos of ALL the simblings together ,the last time was 7 yrs ago .Mum is in a nice home in Waihi ,just sth of Auckland ,so Margaret found us a crib at Whiratoa beach and we all gathered for the w/e bringing mom out each day .She is as well as can be expected for someone of her age who never ate her vegetables !!!she is quite fragile but still enjoyed a joke or two as long as it was delivered slowly .Present also was Mary Christianson who was the flower girl at her wedding and just lives close by,the wedding was in Waihi ! so you could say that life is just one great big revolving wheel.Grahams daughter Carla was across from Aussie with her boyfriend ,so she came as well .We all had a most enjoyable time ,lots to eat and lots to drink and even more to think about ,nothing like a good dose of nostalgia every so often !!! remember what you do today will be the quality of your memories in the future .