Happy Valentines day

I couldn't resist dressing Sheep up for Valentines day. She doesn't know it is Valentines, she is recalling her past life as a wolf. She is remembering the Lupercalia festival. Held in honour of Lupa, the she-wolf who suckled the infant orphans, Romulus and Remus. Sheep doesn't know she is not a she wolf anymore much to Floyd's disgust.

New Zealand part 3 Raglan with Lis

New Zealand part 2 Pahia town and Boat Trip

Still on the same initial bus tour I stayed in the town of Paihia (village) stayed at an ok but not great hostel which had the most beautiful Strelitzias growing in the garden. I took a boat trip that day and saw a famous 'hole in the rock'.

New Zealand part 1 Cape Reinga and Hundred Mile beach

The first place I visited in New Zealand on a bus tour was the the Northlands. Here are some photos of the Ninety Mile beach, we drove along the length of the beach and ended up at Cape Reinga. On the way back we did the obligatory tourist activity of body boarding down the sand dunes, it was messy.

Winter cabbages

Today we have dug over the patch where cabbage white butterflies massacred all our purple sprouting broccoli and sprouts plants a few weeks ago. We have now planted some winter cabbages that WILL NOT go the same way as their predecessors because this time we have added a net. We are very proud of the way it looks now it is finished but are slightly worried that a certain puppy will go charging through the net and bring it down. Just as we were hammering in the wooden posts to support the net a lone cabbage white butterfly flew overhead this omen spurred us on to get it finished so fingers crossed that it will stay up.