Mowing.....and the jobs begin!!
January 18, 2020 in New Zealand ⋅ ⛅ 13 °C
I knew K had a list of jobs for me today so I insisted we start the day at Vanessas cafe with a coffee, pie and paper!
After our delicious breakfast it was a walk around K’s paddocks listing moreRead more
7 loads of laundry and a flight
January 19, 2020 in New Zealand ⋅ ⛅ 13 °C
A cracking day of beautiful NZ summer weather here today from start to finish. Loving the fact it doesn’t get dark until 9.45pm.
We spent the day unpacking and sorting... and washing!! 7 loads ofRead more
Oamaru- town day
January 20, 2020 in New Zealand ⋅ ⛅ 13 °C
Big day today as no jobs because it was “ town day”!!
K, Mary and I drove into Oamaru armed with a list of jobs each.
These included a visit to the Stihl shop to get the blade changed on the weedRead more
One clean caravan and guests visiting!!
January 21, 2020 in New Zealand ⋅ ☁️ 14 °C
A v productive 3 hours was spent thoroughly cleaning the inside of the caravan including the fridge and oven which was v satisfying when finished- despite demolishing my rubber gloves and using aboutRead more
Moeraki
January 22, 2020 in New Zealand ⋅ ⛅ 16 °C
Moeraki put on beautiful colours for us today.
The new fish and chip “shop/container” has had a great new paint job although I’m not too sure the Moeraki Tavern just behind is happy with theRead more
Fleurs
January 22, 2020 in New Zealand ⋅ ⛅ 16 °C
Great way to start the day with a coffee at Fleurs after an eggs bene breakfast at home.
Fleurs never fails to disappoint or look fabulous or just fill the soul with happy feelings.
After coffee weRead more
Sea swim and yellow eyed penguins
January 22, 2020 in New Zealand ⋅ ⛅ 15 °C
So we started the day with a cooked breakfast at home, walk around Moeraki, followed by coffee at Fleurs as per previous posts.
Just to continue a top day Ryan and I spent a good 45 mins in the seaRead more
See ya Carol and Ryan/ Hello clean truck
January 23, 2020 in New Zealand ⋅ ☁️ 15 °C
We started the morning with a lovely 5kms walk from home, along the beach to Vanessa’s cafe in Hampden for breakfast.
Due to a pre-planned car drop off we drove home as the tide was too high to walkRead more
Work, work, work, work, work
January 24, 2020 in New Zealand ⋅ ⛅ 17 °C
A hot and sunny day and all we did was work, work, work, work, work, work- zizzing more weeds and thistles, cleared all grass from around the fish at the gate, swapped the broken wooden gate with aRead more
K’s first Park Run and a treat of Cats
January 25, 2020 in New Zealand ⋅ ☁️ 15 °C
Early start as up at 6am to drive to Dunedin for K’s first park run and the first run for both of us in about a year!!
We arrived at the Dunedin Botanical Gardens in plenty of time to join about 200Read more
Relaxing day and the rugby sevens
January 26, 2020 in New Zealand ⋅ ⛅ 15 °C
Any day that starts with a coffee at Fleurs is a good day. Sadly we didn’t get a picture of the seal asleep outside that required a warning sign for the diners at Fleurs.
Our coffee was followed byRead more
A new pet plant and a surprise WOF
January 27, 2020 in New Zealand ⋅ ☁️ 15 °C
Another busy and productive day in the sunshine.
Caravan registered and warranted-now nearly ready for sale if anyone wants a cracking caravan?? Val??!!!
New succulent bought and planted afterRead more
Vanessa’s was closed!!!
January 28, 2020 in New Zealand ⋅ ☁️ 15 °C
Woke up to a beautifully sunny day. The caravan took another 2 hours to clean the pop top- nearly, nearly ready to list it.
Mary kindly drove us up to Hampden so we could go to Vanessa’s for a wellRead more
Trip planning, a plumber and a tool rail
January 29, 2020 in New Zealand ⋅ 🌧 14 °C
After yesterday we decided to head straight to Vanessas for an early coffee and the newspaper before today’s work commenced ( yep it’s still not a holiday!), so at 8am we trudged through the doorRead more
Oamaru and the caravan is listed!
January 30, 2020 in New Zealand ⋅ 🌙 22 °C
We started the day with coffee and the newspaper in Steam cafe, Oamaru as we had to go to town to get some materials for the tool rack.
https://steamcaf.weebly.com/
After a productive couple of hoursRead more
Katiki beach & more trip planning
January 31, 2020 in New Zealand ⋅ ⛅ 15 °C
Several hours this am was spent in front of the screens down at Mary’s continuing with the trip planning- any top tips for Argentina much appreciated.
Lunch back at home was followed by a few shortRead more
Kate’s PB and a day in Dunedin
February 1, 2020 in New Zealand ⋅ ☁️ 14 °C
An early start to arrive in Dunedin for our second Park Run at 8am. We scoped out a new post run coffee shop before we even arrived.
Once in situ in the Botanical gardens we couldn’t help butRead more
Fleurs and dinner at the neighbours
February 2, 2020 in New Zealand ⋅ ☁️ 13 °C
We started off the day with coffee at Fleurs with Raymonda and Jenny, the start of Mary’s pre bday celebrations for a catch up.
Back home it was a bit of baking and lunch before having a coffee withRead more
Happy Birthday Meem
February 3, 2020 in New Zealand ⋅ 🌙 17 °C
Sadly our plans to go for a bday drive to Central with Mary were curtailed due to rain and gale force winds.
Due to this K decided it was a good time to spend a couple of hours “tidying up”. ThisRead more
An early start and Elton John
February 4, 2020 in New Zealand ⋅ 🌧 9 °C
Today started early with a meeting with Otago Regional Council about some trees ( our responsibility) during which time we had to work out how to get out of bed without flashing Gary and the possibleRead more
Elton John - the concert
February 4, 2020 in New Zealand ⋅ 🌧 9 °C
Great concert - he has still got it at 73! As did the drummer Ray Cooper- what a legend?!.
Still raining and wheelie bin bags did us well getting back to the truck. The great car park had us out ofRead more
Work,work,work,work,work!!!
February 5, 2020 in New Zealand ⋅ ⛅ 13 °C
After a bit of a sleep in, it was up and at it by 10am. Make hay whilst the sun shines, so in this case it was mow lawns to be able to pile and sort timber, lift and sort timber, sort lots of stuffRead more
Coffee, caravan and cracking tickets
February 6, 2020 in New Zealand ⋅ ☁️ 11 °C
Today started off with bringing the caravan up to ours and one last final spruce up in preparation for 2 viewings.
Next it was off to the Kaik for coffee with Jenny and Raymonda- this was specialRead more
Tidying up the bottom paddock
February 7, 2020 in New Zealand ⋅ ☁️ 13 °C
Had a slow start to the day by the time we had filled up with fuel ( have to drive 20 mins for the cheapest diesel!), bought some eggs from the egg farm and went to the roadside vege stall for rhubarbRead more
Tidying up the bottom paddock Day 2
February 8, 2020 in New Zealand ⋅ ⛅ 10 °C
Same as yesterday really. It was freezing first thing this am and then the sun came out and it was boiling- the forecast was rain all day which is why we cancelled going to Dunedin for our weekly ParkRead more































































































































































































Traveler
Safety thongs and all!
Traveler
Beautiful photo
TravelerHome are lovely x