Daily Archives: 2016-12-26

A relaxed start to the journey, leaving around mid-morning and stopping at the Rashbrooke’s in York Bay until noon. Max and Madeline were also there. Everything very green in their garden, and in fact all around Wellington, quite a contrast with the hills of Hawkes bay.

I drove as far as Featherston, Karola the rest of the way. We had a refuel and bio-break with coffees on the upper outskirts of Upper Hutt and stopped at Featherston to change drivers, stopping again in Masterton for a bio-break.

All seems OK here. The sheep were temporarily in the Middle and Long Acre paddocks and I put them back in the Front paddock where they resumed their onslaught on the 2nd swatch of pasture. I let the wether and ram and geese into the Long Acre and Holding paddocks for a bit of variety.

Checked the house to see if there were any signs of what triggered the alarm on Saturday afternoon. No sign but a rat has made a significant pile of wood chippings in trying to gnaw its way under the door into the under-stairs in the house. Probably trying to reach the remains of the delicious (to rats) lure left under there when I removed the automatic trap just before we left for Wellington. Darn nuisance as the door will have to be repaired, eventually.

Oak Avenue Weather:10℃—23℃ no rain [?]