As our weather is now finally on the
turn into spring with daffodils blooming and snow fast disappearing (I hope)
from the Tararua Mountains to the East, as beautiful as it looks we are
welcoming warmer weather after a long winter which has been very wet in many
areas causing lots of slips . During July we had a series of very bad storms ,
one put us without power for almost 40 hours , another lightning storm caused an
outage which had us with lights but no powerpoints after a transformer was
struck down the road .
Today is Fathers Day and we enjoyed
a morning out with my wife's parents at a place called the Red Barn just south
of Otaki . Marvellous morning with sun shining and cloudless blue sky, I was
awoken at around 6am to hear a Tui bird singing in a nearby tree, its another
sign life is returning after the hibernation of many. Around our home is an
abundance of wildlife and animals, and we are most fortunate to have a stream
flowing through the property . Occasionally we see eels and freshwater crabs,
and with the sound of water flowing over the small waterfall' s we built , all
makes for a consistent passive environment.
On arriving back from our' brunch
'we spotted the latest arrival , two ducks with their offspring all out for a
Sunday 'drive'heading upstream towards the farm next door. The photos captured
most of the family group .
This weeks 'goof'
story:
Wednesday morning the radio
was on at breakfast, a lady recalling the day war broke out and having to get
out of London. I made the call to the radio station , found a free dialling
number-hmm that's good I thought.
Rang and spoke to the announcer and
told him" today is also' Merchant Navy Day ', still to be officially recognised
in New Zealand !" About 15 minutes later he mentioned the
fact. Sometime later another listener rang in and said somewhere in New
Zealand they do recognise the date, but is was rather confusing and so I sat
down and emailed the facts as I have from the New Zealand Merchant Navy
Association. I did not mince words and plainly mentioned New Zealand 's
Government is dragging anchor on the issue, whilst UK, Canada and Australia all
now recognise the Red Ensign for the lost and fallen seafarer's who kept the
countries and allies fed and supplied.
Friday morning and I am busy in my
office as my wife gets ready for work , when she calls me to the radio. The
email I had sent was broadcast . Okay it got the message out, but what I did not
realise is my wife often changes stations and I thought the station called The
Coast was local.
No it was Auckland ,and
broadcasting national!!.
During the week we enjoyed watching
the film 'Elizabeth -The Golden Age' , about the Spanish Armada , and catching
up a series I missed when first screened ,' William and Mary ', a lovely
romantic British comedy.
I will write about the 'ALF'Sin the near future , if the Secret Service have not hauled me away and
wish each and everyone of you a peaceful and happy week.
regards
Wallace
PLEASE NOTE---
Wallace has kindly been worlking so hard for this site but must now concentrate on his own artistic commissions for a while . I have therefore advised him to take a short break from his blogg spot so he can catch up with his own work ---He will be back soon
Wallace i hope New Zealand will reconise the good the merchant navy what they did in the ww2 ,you need to keep pushing the NZ Gov and hoping they get it together. Regards Doris
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