Mid-Autumn

Well here we are just past the peak of Autumn ,two falls of snow on the mountains ,half a dozen frosts ,beautiful days and hosts of amazing WWOOFers .I literally couldn't survive without my WWOOFers ,I have fabulous friends [besides the facebook variety],
but with WWOOFers you have lots of social interaction and STILL get your work done ! the last man Antoine from the Basque country tried also to give me a few pointers on my camera ,so see if you can spot an improvement .
I hope that you all have a good Easter break ............cheers ........

Only in NZ

Now here is a funny story for you that could only happen in NZ.
I was taking Zhouhui down to Raes Junction ,Sth of Roxburgh ,so we decided to have a famous"Jimmys" pie as we passed through .She decided that she needed some shopping so we wandered up the main st to the supermarket ,whilst she was shopping I was looking in the window of the shop next door ,woolcrafts and souvineers ,it appeared to be closed,then I just stood there with my back to the window and waited .In the distance I could hear a phone going ,then a little old lady ,whom I'd never seen before came out of the supposedly closed shop and said " are you Bob ?" I said yes,because I was ! and she said "you are wanted on the phone " !!!!!!!! STONE THE CROWS !!
It turned out that she was the mother-in-law of the woman that we were going to visit ,and I had jokingly said that if we had time to spare I'd look up her mother-in-law ,she took me seriously ,and needing a parcel bought & rang her up .Talk about freaky !

The big tree

The big tree is gone !! long live the little tree that I planted to compensate .I must say that I was impressed with the arborists skill, strength and professionalism,even if I didn't want them to do it !!

Warm weekend weather

Fabulous w/e in Cambrian this w/e, Katrina McFie got married in the middle of a field !!
Anna Smythe had an art opening ,Keith and Jan came for pancakes and we[xiaohui and I] went to huge Bar-b-que @ Mcfies and drank too much wine in the midday sun ,and had to sleep it off afterwards ,all in all a very social w/e.
Here's a photo of Xiaohui in her "glad-rags"

Autumn colours

Big frost this morning ,but a beautiful day ,the trees are starting to turn quite quickly now so if you are coming to Cambrian for coffee ,you'd better make it fast ! Big wedding in the town tomorrow ,photos in the Cambrian Common Forest ,should be interesting .It's still early autumn but a few trees have nice colour ,,see you .