Rain....

We saw between 300mm and 500mm of rain fall in around 24hrs recently.... Turned areas into lakes!!



Few days later..... All the water has gone!

Pupcakes!!

To celebrate Barneys 3rd birthday we made yummy pupcakes...! Well really doggie cupcakes as he's nolonger a pup!!



With a choice of doglicious frosting's either peanut butter or cheesey mash both with sprinkles..!


Doesn't look too impressed at our efforts!!



But when it came to trying them they went down well! Only problem couldn't get a picture of Archie... He's camera shy when it comes to close ups!

Veggies

A bit late but this was the veggie garden a few months back...!


Things that grew well were the cucumbers, gherkins, cos lettuce, chillies and tomatoes. Things that didn't go too well were red onions, garlic and peppers. I think that we put tooo much stuff in. Next year we'll try less.



Oh and this was our strange double decker cucumber...



Just waiting for the Olives to ripen now!

New Car ....

Well new to Dan! It's a Toyota MR2 few years old, been sitting off the road for around a year, as the previous owner could nolonger drive a manual due to a motorbike accident.


It's not road worthy yet, a few things need fixing.... Was going to be a project car for Dan and Tony to work on and Dan make a few $$$, but that's all changed now and Dan will keep it..! I think that we knew that was going to happen anyway!!


Just out of interest we went online to Tesco's Insurance to see what a quote would be for him to insure it 3rd party etc etc if he had this car in the UK... We knew that the quote would be high and thought it would be couple of 1000's GBP the actual online quote for a year was 11,500 GBP!!! Here it's around 300 NZD for the year!