Daily Archives: 2017-06-28

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After breakfast on this rather chilly morning: Bangle – orchard – apple.

Karola got a call from James Russell who will be coming round to look at, and we hope buy, the six wether lambs. “Jimmy Rural”, James Russell & his dad, (022-376-7507).

All three of us then went off to town. First stop was for Karola to have a specimen taken from a “funny” toenail. Then to the Stortford Lodge Post Office and on to the Hastings Sorting Office – chasing up a missing book sent from the UK last month by BookDepository.com. On to New World for a bit of food and Karola then waylaid me into having a coffee and cake for morning tea. Lemon & ginger friande with cream, delicious, but not a recommended diet option. Finally to Mitre-10 where we bought a small fluorescent tube for the cottage kitchen, to replace one that seems disproportionately large even though it is a mini-fitting.

A replacement remote for the cottage garage came today so another hour or so was spent enabling it, and then re-enabling the others which had been disabled by the process.

Early afternoon a nice guy called and came round from AONet. Apparently Lachlan, one of the owners of AONet, had noticed our signal for Internet connection was particularly bad so he asked his man to po round and adjust the dish. It was leaning at an angle, mainly facing the ground in fact, so pointing it correctly to Te Mata peak where the transceiver is strengthened our signal considerably.

We all went over to the Macrocarpa after lunch and put up the rest of the railings. It’s now sheep proof, the whole Front paddock, although the railings still need intermediate half-round posts to add strength and to keep the railings at their proper spacings.

Brimar Trimmers trimmed the outside of the Ngaio windbreak along the orchard drive. I spoke to the driver and with luck in a few days time he will not only trim the tops of the Ngaios but also do the inside upper part of the Casurina windbreak along our southern boundary, avoiding cutting Karola’s conifer and Kanukas.

New Railings – Just Lacking The Intermediate Half-Round Posts That Will Straighten And Strengthen

Oak Avenue Weather:0℃—13℃ 0.1mm rain [72.8]