Monthly Archives: November 2014

Janet Scott came over and chatted to Karola.

Otherwise Karola was consumed with more Christmas cards and letters and getting the cottage presentable for Meticulous Maids tomorrow.

It was my day for the bills and so on which, attacked in a fairly relaxed way, took up most of the day.

I experimented with the planar/thicknesser woodworking machine I’ve had for a couple of years. Up till now only the builder, Paul Libby, had used it. I’m trying to smooth some planking for the foundation of a new much larger step for Karola’s summer house. First attempts are promising.

Oak Avenue Weather:8℃—23℃ no rain [81.4]

I spent the day relaxing and in education – more of the lectures on Practicing Mindfulness (Meditation). Practicing the exercises feels like very hard work.

Karola also kept inside on homely sewing and cleaning activities and mostly the preparation of Christmas cards and letters. She did go out briefly to catch the mid day post at Stortford Lodge.

What was lost was found. Months ago I mislaid the key(s) to a pair of padlocks, quite expensive weatherproof ones. Today I mused about an unrecognised third key on the ring to open the homestead garage and, just on the off-chance, tried it. Yippee, it worked.

Oak Avenue Weather:13℃—21℃ no rain [81.0]

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After breakfast we drenched the four lambs with Scandia (meat withholding of 10 days): #401R, #403R, #404R and #414E.

Then I spent an hour or so completing the mulch-mowing of the homestead lawn. I estimate that it’s taken me about 6 hours to mulch-mow that lawn – even longer if I had been “picking up”.

Karola washed the four lambs again and also gave #414E another dose of Maggo (withholding for meat of 14 days).

While Karola tied up some tree guards guarding her junipers in the Long Acre I popped into town for the weekend shopping.

In the afternoon I gave the ewes another cell of pasture and set up an electric fence and gave the lambs another slice of the Totara paddock.

In the evening we went with Peter & Charlotte to a film,”My Old Lady” with actors Kevin Kline, Maggie Smith, and Kristin Scott Thomas. Thoroughly enjoyable. We had dinner afterwards in the Thai restaurant round the corner from the Globe Theatrette in Ahuriri.

Invisible In The Long Grass, A Pukeko Family Including Two Chicks

Welcome Swallows Making Mud Nests On The Cottage Verandah

More Mowing Of The Homestead Lawn

Oak Avenue Weather:6℃—24℃ 6.5mm rain [80.8]

Blustery and quite warm. Karola out this morning for hair cut and some more Christmas shopping. I lurked inside. More lawn mowing for couple of hours – will finish the homestead lawn with one more stint I think.

Karola kept four lambs in the holding paddock after washing their back ends, #401R, #403R, #404R (boy), and #414E.

In the evening Karola went to a talk about Manuka and Bees. I watched another lecture from my “Mindfulness Practice” series; very interesting one about the relationship between Mindfulness meditation and some of the precepts of Buddhist teachings.

Oak Avenue Weather:9℃—25℃ no rain [81.1]

SwimGym then another sleepy morning. Karola went shopping.

It was too hot and windy to enjoy much outside today but in the late afternoon I mulch-mowed another piece of the homestead lawn.

Karola went to her Federation of Graduate Women Christmas evening barbeque

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I spent the morning online shopping – or at least online research and also some phone calls.

We’ve gone to the distributors of our large hot water cylinder and they have responded with a design for incorporating a heat pump and an estimate of around $14000. But it seems pretty sure that this is the only way our water radiators will actually work as designed and make us warm in the winter. Not so much for us as we’re pretty comfortable with an extra oli heater in the bedroom timed to come on 30 mins before getting up plus lovely wood fires in the evenings but when it comes time to rent the cottage out then working central heating will be a plus, we’re sure.

And I’ve bought a replacement battery for one of our Tivoli PAL radios. These are still going strong sound-wise and the battery gives up to 17 hours of continuous play should we be far from a power point.

And I’m getting a quote for installing an iPod connection into Karola’s Subaru radio – the nearest agent is in Wellington so if the price is OK it’d be installed after Christmas.

Karola weeded half the bay trees in the cottage garden – it looks much better.

We yarded up all 51 lambs and applied pour-on Magnum to repel flies (zero withholding for meat). Karola also separated out 16 for possible drenching in next day or so. Ewe lamb #414E was given a treatment of Maggo which fights active flystrike. She was particularly messy and twitching but no actual maggots were seen. (Maggo has a meat withholding period of 14 days).

The ewes had all day on another piece of the homestead lawn and were then given the 2nd tranche of pasture in the Front paddock in the evening. I rolled up Karola’s electric fence round the lawn.

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Then I slept until noon – these lively weekends certainly take it out of one. Karola did some shopping, returning to collapse exhausted on the verandah as the temperature was already nearly 30 degrees. Not as hot as Melbourne though.

We kept inside until late afternoon when things had cooled down a bit.

I mowed the small lawns and got on with yesterday’s chores. Karola did some sewing.

Oak Avenue Weather:9℃—27℃ no rain [81.2]

The day began early with Bramble wanting to play and be taken for a walk soon after 5:00am. She was destined to spend much of the day in the car so we ended up giving her three walks before 8:00am – on the lawn by the tennis court, on the beach, and over the hill.

Karola had already prepared for departure yesterday, vacuuming the flat, so today it didn’t take long to pack. I also cleaned out the small drain along the edge of the car port – it fills with Kowhai seeds and detritus but needs to be clear to avoid water from above us on the reserve coming into the house. And, seeing a noxious weed, a banana passionfruit, climbing up shrubs out of the kitchen window I went out and snipped through its 1cm thick stem. I also cleared overhanging vines and leaves from the front path just to make it look a little less unoccupied.

We set off well before lunch, over the Rimutakas and up through the Wairarapa. We completed our listening to the Anthony Price audible book, “The Old Vengeful”. Had snacks in Carterton and Woodville. Got back late afternoon and have now unpacked and inspected the livestock – all OK.

Janet Scott called in to show us the brochure for the new B&B along the road, “188 On Oak Avenue” – $240 a night for two.

Henare and Scott called round later so that I could book Scott’s bus ticket – he’s returning to Uni in Hamilton tomorrow.

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In the afternoon Karola went again to see Mary – we’d both been to see her on Thursday afternoon – while I helped Natalie & Bridget connect up their Sony Playstation 3 to my HD PVR digitizer and to their TV. This enables Natalie to record pieces of her gameplay on MineCraft and will, we think, allow her to publish it on YouTube.

Then Karola and I went into the city and found a parking space close by the Michael Fowler Centre. We then walked till we found a small restaurant for a meal. There was a party of mainly women at the next table who seemed to be on a group outing and to have also come from out of town, probably also for the concert.

Afterwards we walked along the waterfront, passing a ship, the Sea Shepherd, dedicated to impeding Japanese whaling – not affiliated to Greenpeace any longer according to the man on watch. We stopped at Circa for a delicious pudding of panna cotta, and arrived shortly before the doors opened at 7:00pm. The concert was from 7:30pm until just before 10:00pm.

When seated we found we were sitting next to the same people who had been at the next table in the restaurant. They recognised us and we quickly established that they too were down from the Hawkes Bay. Suddenly the younger woman said “You must be the people we sold our spare tickets to”. Two of their party had been unable to come at the last minute. Karola then found that they had acquaintances in common and the 30 minutes until the concert started were spent in animated conversation.

The concert was wonderful and of course very nostalgic. Judith Durham is 71 and she’s recently had a brain haemorrhage (May 2013) but her voice is still magical. The concert music was loud but not distorting and most of the songs were very familiar. A thoroughly enjoyable evening although being in an audience of 2800 pensioners was a tad daunting.

Karola In Her New Jeans In Front Of The Anti-Whaling Sip “Sea Shepherd”

Oak Avenue Weather:13℃—25℃ no rain [?]

No SwimGym today – but a walk up and over the hill instead.

Mostly Karola did weeding while I worked on my Mindfulness investigations.

We did go to Eastbourne for lunch – a very filling eggs benedict for me and eggs florentine for Karola – three eggs each.

Afterwards we took Bramble for a walk on the stone beach – where dogs can legally roam free.

In the evening Felicity Rashbrooke joined us for dinner at the flat – Geoff having just gone off to Fiji again where he is working as a consultant actuary for their large government insurance fund.

As arranged, Bridget came out from Khandallah for the night to see if her insomnia was related to noises in or near her house. Sadly she again had a fairly sleepless night. Well at least they don’t need to consider moving house.

Oak Avenue Weather:14℃—23℃ no rain [?]

A beautiful day in Wellington.

Family dinner at “Shed 5” on the Wellington waterfront: Karola & me, Bridget, Chris, Natalie & Alex, and Annemarie More (Chris’ mother) and Gill & Ben and friend Annette Offenberger.

From The Days Bay Flat Balcony, Looking North-West

From The Balcony Looking East

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Immediately we got back we loaded up the eleven ewes and took them down to the Stortford Lodge sale yards. They had been in the holding yard overnight which made it easy to get them loaded but unfortunately there was quite a lot of grass in the holding yard and so they weren’t as empty as they should have been.

It was still very windy. Mid morning we set off for Wellington – a nice uneventful drive down through the gorge and down the west coast – Karola drove all the way and we listened to part of another Anthony Price spy novels. Dinner was some grilled fish from “Go Fish” in Petone.

Aside: We think there are now four lambs who have lost their button:#415R, #428E, #440E, and #449R.

Oak Avenue Weather:6℃—23℃ no rain [?]

Karola went into Napier to do some Christmas shopping for the grandsons and post it in time for Christmas.

I worked on the cottage energy plans and booked two companies to come and give heat-pump quotes in next week or so. I also gave Bruce Emerson an update:

1) we like the idea of just using the kitchen verandah roof for the panels which means a max of 11. As you have been clear, this is not enough to drive our current daylight use of perhaps 15 – 20 kWh – the spreadsheet recommends 14-15 panels.

2) while my basic calculation of the returns vs costs is not promising, I think it’s still right for us because:
– chance of rises in the price of electricity is pretty near certain
– climate change will likely work in our favour – more droughts
– despite Consumer report being so negative, it still feels like a nudge towards more sustainable and environmentally sound behaviour and that would appeal to many who might rent or buy in the future too.

3) The immerSUN control will likely make a substantial difference.

4) We want to get the base line power use down to something that better matches the capabilities of a max 11 panel system so we are getting quotes for a heat pump to cut the average 40kWh / day to perhaps 30kWh / day. This makes the spreadsheet very happy: 11 panels and payback within ten years.

THE PLAN

Next week we’ll see if we can talk to one of the 10-panel customers you supplied us with. We also expect to get some advice and quotes for the heat pump in next ten days or so.

As prudent behaviour I’ll get a couple more quotes for the solar installation but I’m not anticipating any dramatic differences there.

Then we can decide.

Cynthia Chalmers called round in the afternoon and Karola returned shortly afterwards.

I mulch-mowed another third of the homestead lawn leaving only the piece currently occupied by the ewes.

Early evening Karola and I took the ewes down to the yards and drafted out the eight #900s plus #113, #150, and #245 – the eleven sheep destined for the market at Stortford Lodge tomorrow.

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Rolled up the electric fence on the lawn and also did a smidgen of mulch-mowing before it started raining. Later Karola put up electric fence round a fresh part of the lawn in between, and sometimes during, the showers.

More time investigating the solar PV systems. Spoke to Ben of The Cylinder Guy (022-176-1105) about the water heating system we have and issues with it and he waxed eloquently on the benefits of heat pumps, indicating they have come down a great deal in price over the past few years. Their local agent is Panton Plumbing (06-876-5057).

Also changed a couple of light bulbs in exterior lights and I think fixed the cottag garden gate latch which wasn’t catching if you just slammed it shut. And moved a pile of old decking planks from out by the hay shed to the dump near the 121 entrance – oh and some, which may become a new step for Karola’s summer house come gardening shed, are now laid out for inspection by the homestead garage door.

Oak Avenue Weather:13℃—20℃ 1.9mm rain [80.8]

Sunday again – Hawkes Bay hottest place in NZ again.

I spent too much time on the economics of the solar panel system. Talked to Chris More about some of the engineering aspects.

Karola has tidied up bits and pieces around the place, outside. We discussed which ewes should go to market on Wednesday – we need to lose eleven.

I mulch-mowed about a third of the homestead lawn to cut off the stalks left by the ewes.

Oak Avenue Weather:7℃—22℃ no rain [80.1]

Stayed inside most of the day it was so windy, apart from moving the lambs to a new cell and mowing the small lawns (a day early). The lawns have barely grown in the last two weeks, unlike the huge spurt of growth the week before. Must be the drying winds.

Karola also quickly popped back inside after briefly braving the tempestuous winds. She and Rowena went to visit a flower garden – 100s of pink roses I think – mid afternoon.

Karola’s Raised-Bed Kitchen Garden With Geese In The Background

Oak Avenue Weather:11℃—26℃ no rain [80.1]

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I then went shopping (do we ever have a day when we don’t go shopping?) for food for the weekend and some extra irrigation pipe connectors.

At 11:00am Bruce Emerson, the Hawkes Bay franchise owner for Harrisons Energy Solutions came and discussed domestic solar Photovoltaic systems with us for three hours.

Based on our consumption of electricity over the last 12 months he quoted for a 17-panel system for about $17000 to buy and install. However this meant havng panels both on the cottage kitchen verandah and on the north side of the cottage garage.

I had done a rough, very rough calculation that if we could cut our kilowatt hours in half (apparently 50% – 66% is common) then, using Meridian’s high cost per kilowatt hour, we could save about $1800 a year; $18,000 over ten years. And that, roughly, translates to the same as putting $12000 in a bank term deposit compounding annually at say 4% pa after tax. So I told Bruce I was looking more for something costing us around $12,000.

I then noticed that Bruce, knowing we were retired, assumed we’d use electricity during the day much more than people regularly going out to work. With Karola’s impatience at ever being indoors I suspect most of our use is around dawn and after dusk so I said that our profile was more likely to be much less than the 60% use during the sunlight hours he’d specified.

Assuming we use 45% of the 24-hours power during the day and assuming we only had panels on the cottage kitchen verandah roof this collapse nicely into 11 panels and a smaller inverter and a total price of just under $12,000. As the price you get for surplus power is modest, the trick is to have a system that doesn’t produce much excess power; building for more than you need is very wasteful.

There are significant unknowns such as rises in he price of electricity to consumers in New Zealand, changes in interest rates, and so on that it is pretty much a leap of faith – but a $12000 leap of faith is more prudent than a $17000 leap of faith.

The solar panels are made in Korea by LG; the inverter is New Zealand designed and integrates all the pieces required by New Zealand’s electricity system. It is sold by enasolar and their brochure says it’s NEW ZEALAND MADE. We’ll decide whether to go ahead in the next week or so.

What was left of the day Karola spent on tree guard maintenance and I spent re-erecting electric fence for the ewes on another big swathe of the homestead lawn.

Oak Avenue Weather:9℃—20℃ no rain [80.1]

Karola spent most of the day working on her tree guard maintenance – giving some trees bigger guards, weeding inside the guard, and doing repairs.

I went into town for food shopping and again later for some water pipe fittings.

After lunch I extended the farm irrigation and trough pipelines overground from mid-way down the ha-ha to not one but three access points in the vicinity of the Damson tree and the three gates at the west end of the ha-ha. Two points were in-line valves for troughs and the other was a garden tap. The in-line valves are an experiment as we have had a lot of trouble connecting troughs to garden taps – they all eventually leak or, worse still, come apart. With the in-line valve we use the tried and true alkathene couplings to connect trough to feeder and that seems to be working very well.

As shown in the photos below, each in-line valve can connect to a trough either side of a fence, servicing two paddocks, one at a time. The tap is for Karola’s garden hose to water, for example, plants to be grown in the octagon.

The Water Line Forks Where The Ha-ha Changes Direction

Garden Tap At The Western End Of The Ha-Ha

In-Line Valve On The Fence Line Between One Acre and Totara Paddocks

In-Line Valve On The Fence Line Between One Acre and Front Paddocks

Oak Tree Felled In The Avenue – No Obvious Reason Why

Oak Avenue Weather:4℃—18℃ 3.9mm rain [80.8]

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Karola went briefly to Flaxmere and visited Enid and Laurie McDermott. After lunch Karola cleaned all the silver plate cutlery.

Anticipating that the ewes would be given more of the lawn but excluding the area inside the drip-line of the Lyriodendron, I mulch-mowed the area under the tree while it was still possible with the new lawn mower. This also removed any attraction to the ewes who might have chanced the electric fence to get the grass there. If the sheep get inside the drip-line they eat the leaves on the lower branches and these don’t regrow until next year.

I completed mowing the old Island paddock with its thick ground cover of iris, much of it in flower but none at the berry stage. I also mowed the One Acre which, after being grazed by the lambs and then grazed hard by the ewes, comprised patches of very springy and dry stalks and seed heads.

Early evening I increased the size of the area of lawn for the sheep and let them graze it for a couple of hours. Having mown their main grazing area, the One Acre, they felt deprived and said so.

The Thick Ground Cover Of Iris In The Island Paddock, Under The Trees

The Island Paddock, Under The Trees, After The Mowing

The One Acre – Topped Of Stalks & Seed Heads

Oak Avenue Weather:6℃—18℃ no rain [80.8]

Lazy start to the day. Karola stayed up till almost 4:00am reading the latest Dick Francis novel and so she was a little less than lively today as well.

Karola gave her sheep a little more of the homestead lawn.
I mowed the Middle paddock today, well most of it. These days the Middle paddock includes the goose enclosure and the Island paddock as one large field. I still have half of what was the Island paddock to do. Karola would like to stop the iris dropping more of their bright orange seeds and so I am cutting all the iris while it is in flower and before the fruit has set. Unlike the goose enclusure piece of the Middle paddock which I did yesterday, today’s mowing was done with the blades set high so as to minimise cutting grass suitable for the sheep to graze.

Bruce Utting Sent This Photo Of His Chooks Eyeing Some Intruders

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I did a quick food shop in Hastings.
Karola put up electric fence and let her ewes into part of the lawn for the afternoon. Then Karola went back to her tree guards.

When it got a bit cooler I mowed the area that used to be the goose enclosure. The grass was being overwhelmed by iris and so this has knocked back the iris and the remains of thickets of nettles. It now looks very clean and park-like. Despite wearing a protective helmet with visor and ear muffs, my chainsawing hat, I got a sun-singed face and covered in dust – in my mouth, nose, ears, hair – everywhere.

Oak Avenue Weather:8℃—24℃ no rain [80.8]

Karola woke me at 6:00am with tea. She wanted to watch the replay of the All Blacks versus England at Twickenham last night. So we did.

It being Sunday the usual chores beckoned and these were accomplished in a leisurely fashion after I’d finished the little sheep ramp (see below). It comes apart into a base, the two sides, and the spacers across the top that stop the sides falling inwards or outwards.

Karola was inseparable from her tree guard duties.

The Little Sheep Ramp

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Leisurely day – a cool, calm, sunny day.

Karola continues with her tree guard maintenance. I built a little ramp for getting the sheep more easily onto the trailer and into the stock crate. It’ll take me some me tomorrow to finish it I imagine. It’s built out of scraps of plywood left over from building the cottage.

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SwimGym, alone again.

Finished off cladding the last gate from the sheep yards used for pushing the sheep into the crush pen. By adding a few 4×1 (100mm x 25mm) boards to the face of each gate the sheep are less likely to be hurt when pressed forward into the pen ahead.

The sheep yard rails and gates are now complete, including the improvements such as the gate cladding, and the next project to affect the sheep yards will probably be the establishment of a better water supply for sheep troughs and irrigation.

I moved the ewes into another cell and likewise the lambs. The ewes are on a two-day rotation, the lambs on four days per cell.

I picked up Karola from the airport at 3:30pm and we went into Hastings for the weekend shopping, arriving back at Karamu at 4:30pm. Bramble was very pleased to see her mistress back home again.

Three Gates Now Padded With Wooden Slats

Oak Avenue Weather:2℃—18℃ no rain [80.5]

Cold, blustery day with periods of rain until late afternoon when the sun came out, the wind dropped and it was really quite pleasant outside.

Spent couple of hours in communication with Bruce Utting (of Kirsty & Bruce fame) as he struggled with his obsolete PC and its obsolete Microsoft Windows.

Lit the fire and kept it going most of the day so inside the cottage stayed nice and warm.

Still a few fireworks going off.

Oak Avenue Weather:3℃—13℃ 2.8mm rain [80.1]

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I checked the sheep – 51 lambs and 35 ewes. I moved the ewes to another cell as they have eaten the first two cells down to the ground except for some stalky seed heads. The lambs still have plenty to eat.

I went shopping – to New World – including picking up the dozen eggs that got left behind last time we went.

Other than that Bramble and I pottered around doing nothing of much consequence. It rained a little in the morning, began raining harder late afternoon. I had a fire going all day as it was really quite chilly.

The smoke alarm went off in the cottage. I had not noticed that the cleaners had put the dustpan and brush for the wood burner on top of the wood burner and the brush caught fire. It was in no danger of catching anything else but I was relieved it happened after we got back from shopping. I turned off the alarm with the remote – just as well because it’d take me quite a while to find the pin number for the control panel.

Bramble spent much of the evening crouched by the TV and behind the end of the sofa – she does not like the November 5th explosions even though they’re a long way off.

Grey Heron Sitting On Edge Of Ha-Ha

Grey Heron Having Jumped Down Off The Ha-Ha

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I continued with my archiving of computer stuff in the morning; Karola cleaned ready for the cleaners and got ready for going to Wellington.

Joan Phillips left going north mid morning.

Mellifluous Maids came in the afternoon and cleaned the cottage. Soon afterwards we set off for the airport.

Karola In Koru Club – Hawkes Bay Airport

Oak Avenue Weather:9℃—19℃ 3.5mm rain [80.8]

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I moved the ewes into a new cell and the lambs into a new cell. I also spent half an hour spraying thistles – including some very invasive nodding thistles – in the Front paddock.

Kirsty & Bruce packed up and left for Otaki mid morning. Joan went out to visit friends in Havelock North.

Karola quietly got the place back to normal, returning stuff to the cottage from the homestead and clearing away in the cottage in preparation for Meticulous Maids coming tomorrow.

After lunch I mowed the small lawns.

I booked Karola a flight to Wellington tomorrow returning on Friday and a rental car for her time in Wellington. Karola goes to help Bridget with the grand-daughters this week. Bridget is beginning to get into the swing of her new life as an IBMer.

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All was quiet as two of the visitors went off to Woodford House chapel and the other two went with Bruce and with Cynthia Chalmers to the Hastings Farmers Market. Karola went out to pick up pre-ordered ice cream and fresh strawberries. I stayed behind.

Cynthia had come to help with the lunch preparations. Other guests began arriving from 11:30am onwards.

There was an abundance of conversation and a sumptuous buffet lunch punctuated with and followed by more conversation.

Henare came round and dropped off some scones from Denise – more food for the party.

Laura and her beau Simon dropped in, they had come over to Hawkes Bay to pick up an item they’d bought on TradeMe. I showed them round the farmlet and they took themselves on a tour of the homestead.

Carol-Jean left for Waikanai soon after lunch and others started leaving gradually until by 4:00pm we were back to Kirsty & Bruce and Joan. We had scrambled eggs on toast as a light supper and gradually wound down as the evening progressed. It seemed like a very successful party.

A Dozen Woodford Old Girls For Lunch

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Saturday and the ladies, Carol-Jean, Joan, Kirsty and Karola, set off at 9:30am for their day of reunion at Woodford House.

Bruce and I went over to Havelock North to the Arataki honey factory and looked round their quite interesting visitor centre. Then we went in to Napier and lunched at Divine Cafe. Bruce bumped into one of his sisters an her daughter outside – they’d just finished Christmas shopping and were also heading for lunch at Divine Cafe.

After lunch we went to the Meeanee Hall where another of Bruce’s sisters was manning a stall at the local Saturday market. We went back to Karamu after that and had a relaxed afternoon.

The ladies rang late afternoon and we rendezvoused at Pipi’s Restaurant in Havelock North for dinner. After that the ladies went on the Margy Maxwell’s house, also in Havelock North, for more Woodford Reunion high jinks while Bruce and I again went back to Karamu and relaxed.

Woodford House – 2014 Class Reunion Photo

… And This Says It All

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