Gill & Ben set off for their holiday in Perth this morning. Nasty cold and wet morning. Two more ewes lambed last night: #043 had twins #610 & $611, #229 had twins #612E & #613R.

I popped into town, running into the preparations and road closures for todays Hastings Blossom Parade, and as well as picking up this years sheep tags from Farmlands, also bought a new Makita 18v cordless power drill from Hector Jones and, from Mitre-10, 100 more big screws for fastening railings.

We pottered about but were driven back inside by bitter showers every hour or so.

Henare unexpectedly offered to come round mid afternoon and we added the small bracing posts to the repositioned railings – very helpful because the longer the railings are left without those intervening bracing posts the more likely that they will warp and bend.

Henare Completing The Repositioned Railings

Oak Avenue Weather:5℃—12℃ 0.2mm rain [76.8]