Lovely Evening

It is 20 past 8 on Sunday evening. The sun has just disappeared behind the hills. The birdies are twittering madly and music from a Christmas Carols concert down in the Botanic Gardens is wafting up the hill to me.

No rain or wind, is comfortably warm. All the windows and the front door are wide open. I'm wearing shorts and a teeshirt. And my neighbour isn't playing his electric guitar!

Tonight we have a truely Lovely Evening. It is officially Summer here from tomorrow.

Not Impressed

Okay m'dears,

So it isn't even Summer here. And right now at 12.42 am on the 25th on Nov it is 19 degrees C with 97% humidity here in Wellywood.

Way, way too early, shouldn't be here until late January (as was always in the past, just in time for my birthday).

Raining heaps and windy outside. Where is the nasty cold southerly that is bringing snow to the South Island right now, Huh?

Dear Blog Friends in the Northern Hemisphere, please send some of your snow. Wouldn't alter the humidity, but at least would be cooler.

Rain is still persisting down.

Hurrrr...umph... and ...... .breathe ..... hope you all have a happy Tuesday, with a chillier start than mine.

Huggles from Mickle, silent sleeping from Zebby-Cat

Back to Normal

First a wee correction - Aussie made 214 runs. Turns out this was a good score.

Normality has resumed - today NZ were all out for 156. Aussie are batting again - and it is only day 2 of the test match.

"First Day Honours to the Black Caps"

Wah....

The EN ZED blokes cricket team (the Black Caps) has dismissed the Aussie blokes cricket team for 114 runs on the very first day of the test match, today. Astounding.

Coo, the black caps had better not do a "calypso collapso" with their batting today (is 12.10 am on Friday the twenty oneth here).

And I can't watch it on tv - all good sport here is only available on "pay to view" sky tellingvision. Mutter, mutter.

Will get chance to view this come Xmas visit to the long suffering parents. Dear Dad only watches the cricket - yes he mutes the sound so he can really enjoy the action.

You don't "get" cricket?... never mind, I'll still care about you.

Whoops.....Ouch?

My dear lad was snuggled on our cosy bed late this afternoon. Only he does often snuggle really close to the edge. Too close today - the daft darling fell off the bed,

No, he didn't land on his feet.

Has since been spooked for most of the evening, then finally settled down - right where he fell off from. Mickle intervened and moved him inwards a bit. Now have the other bedtime hassle -

"Hey Diddle Diddle, Zeb's in the Middle"

Just as well I love and adore my daft lad. And yes, Zebby-cat is now snoring once more!!!

Light Relief

"A Palmerston North road is blocked and police are warning of delays after a truck carrying a load of bananas overturned.

The spilt bananas are being picked-up from the road by hand, which police say may take some time."

Polling places in odd spaces

See - the booth is made from cardboard.

Come over to NZ and you can have them in your own home!

"Polling booths can be found in the most incongruous of places. Charmaine and Dave Hammond's house is a polling booth in Kaikoura.

The couple's Marama Rd home is one of 70 polling stations in the Kaikoura electorate. People have voted there, on and off, for about 50 years. Voters will collect their papers at the kitchen table before making their choice behind screens in the lounge."

I'm off now to weild the orange marker pen.

Postscript: there were 2 orange marker pens tied to the booth I used - one for each vote?

The children's artwork was excellent, included a whole wall where each had drawn a picture of a big vase of flowers, all to welcome a returning teacher