June Post

We are into winter officially now.... it is still really warm though. Apparently temperatures are about 6 degrees above normal. Having said that it has bucketed with rain on a few occasions (one of those occasions being today). So our days are now very short. I am leaving for work (and arriving at work) in the dark and it is starting to get dark when I get home at night. It is the one thing I really find difficult about winter is the lack of sunlight ...... and the mud!!!

I have just had a weekend out of Auckland which was FAB. The girls and I went to stay with my friend Kerri and her lovely dog Walter. It was great as the girls are very relaxed around Walt and had a nice restful weekend. I drove down on the Saturday, it was one of those really, really wet days. I got there just about dinner time and had a glass of wine in my hand before I could blink. :-) Unfortunately quite a lot more glasses of wine followed. I think we were so busy talking we didn't realise how much we were drinking (that's my excuse and I am sticking to it ;-).

So we both were feeling a tad seedy the next morning and it took us a fair while to get moving. Kerri is selling her house though and there were people coming through to look at the place so that got us up and about. We took the dogs for a walk along the beach. The tide was really high and there was very little beach to walk on and the sea was really stormy. My poor girls have to put up with my complete paranoia and were not allowed to go in too deep in case they get into trouble.

 Brina looking MAGNIFICENT

 Walt giving special kisses.

 The girls swimming

 Papamoa Beach

 Sammie looking gorgeous

A monarch!!! In June!!!!

After our walk we went for brunch in Papamoa. It was blinkin' HOT for June - 23 degrees!!!! The girls tucked themselves under the tiny table to take advantage of the shade and they were much admired. :-)

Sunday evening we had NO wine but ate lots of nibbley things and watched a DVD. Monday was a public holiday so out we went for brunch again into Mt Maunganui. It was very tasty.   The girls and I had to head off pretty much straight after brunch as we wanted to miss the worst of the 'going back to Auckland' traffic. As it was there was still a whole heap of traffic even that early. It was a lovely weekend.

Tomorrow I am heading off down to Taranaki for a committee meeting. It the BMD Club. I could have attended by phone by I felt it was a great opportunity for me to get some Taranaki air back into my lungs. I am finding that I am very homesick for Taranaki at the moment and I hope that a trip down will ease that a bit (although I suspect that it will actually make it worse.)