Daily Archives: 2005-05-21

Lambs into the orchard – they’ll stay there until we get back. Ewes will also be allowed the night out in the long grass.

Morning tea with Alan and Julie Ladbrooke. Alan and Karola signed the lease; I admired Julie’s bantams, frogs, goldfish, budgie etc.

Johnny Ormond had invited us to his farm, Wallingford, for Saturday night banquet and Sunday breakfast, This was a mini-reunion of the movers and shakers from the main Ormond reunion at Easter; a chance for the Mahia Maori cousins to see Wallingford and for the committee to wrap up the finances etc.

After lunch we motored down to Wallingford, going on past the farm for another 20km to the Porongahau beach. There we met up with several other attendees and found ourselves bedrooms. The place was crawling with rabbits outside, which made Bicka quite excited. Around 3:00pm we left for Wallingford – speeches, drink, and later a beef banquet.

Weather: 12°C—19°C, northerly and no rain.