*With continued apologies to Alistair Cooke
Kia Ora, folks. Woosh… the blink of an eye and it’s that time again. I wonder to myself if it’s worth continuing with these updates, and, if they are read. So I attached a visit-counter to the website and I now know that it’s visited more often than I thought. It’s been visited 15 times this week alone and around 1000 times in total so far. Probably not a very significant number in ‘Internet-Site-Visit’ terms, however enough to convince me to continue for a while longer. As you will have noticed, I’ve stopped firing out emails to the world telling them that the site has been updated because feel it’s a bit presumptuous. I’ll just try to have an update around every 4 weeks or so.
Well, what’s been happening? The weather has been taking its toll. The ground under some poor families’ home ended up sliding down a hill. This resulted in the houses having to be demolished for safety reasons. The landslides here are called ‘slips’ which I think doesn’t quite cover it…
http://www.stuff.co.nz/stuff/0,2106,3758665a11,00.html
We have our own defence against the cold!
We had our own ‘slip’ the other day, part of a hill slid down onto the inlet road that we use to get to the railway station in the morning. We had a bit of a detour over the top of a nearby hill and were able to get to the station in time for the train. ( “Thanks to your psycho driving” says Adam!)
It’s a sunny day today, however you certainly know when the wind is blowing from the south. It’s inevitable I suppose, given that it comes straight off the Antarctic tundra..
http://www.niwascience.co.nz/pubs/wa/11-3/images/link1_large.jpg/view
Still, if this is winter then, no sweat. Ultimately, it’s our intention to move north to live where the climate is a little warmer most of the year round.
All is well in the household, Adam is still working long hours and enjoying the bits that don’t involve the train, bus and walking parts of the day.
Liz has discovered an organic vegetable delivery service that drops the stuff off at your door. We have to admit defeat in attempting to name or recognise some of the vegetables that arrive in the box, however the age-old system of chop, cook and eat appears to work.
The cats are getting much bigger now and are very entertaining, when they are not attempting to get onto or into anything that’s out-of-bounds. I think it’s getting near the time for Max ( & Cleo) to take the long trip to the vet and return a little lighter..:-(
Liz was trying out some meditation CD music the other night, it certainly had an effect on Max & Cleo!
Well That’s all for now folks, I’m going to have to keep a diary to log things of interest to put in the updates so that it doesn’t just dry up.
Regards to all, hope you are enjoying the heat wave in UK
Remember, if you want to see how the cats are doing:
http://andersoncats.blogspot.com/
N.B. There is a 5.9 earthquake happening as I'm publishing this blog!! Is it a sign to stop?? Perhaps I should keep quiet about wanting things to write about..
