That was Saturday - cool but sunny - so off we went across town to have a sticky beak at where the GG resides. Strolled the banquet hall and the guest rooms and the library and the conservatory etc. Admired landscaping and a convict built wall (yes we had 'em but they were home grown convicts, not transported).
We lounged on the lawn with a coffee and listened to one of the school pipe bands for a bit. Then headed off to the Newtown markets for some fruit & veg shopping and lunch.
Mish works Sunday and Monday now, so I pottered around the yard on Sunday - pulled up the beans and some spuds and the evermore zucchini (not planting so many of those next time). Planted more beans and peas and garlic yum yum. Etc. It's a nice wee veg patch to potter in, and we're harvesting more than we've done in bigger patches.
Tonight there's a storm coming up from the South Island, but at the moment we only have a bit of wind and rain, and there goes a plane overhead, they're still landing. Lyall Bay was pretty foamy tonight, seas up onto the footpath and the Picton ferries are cancelled, but all is calm in Newlands so far.
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| Conifer garden on main drive |
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| Mish on the front lawn |
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| Pohutakawa with Mish and aerial roots |
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| At Government House, one of NZ's first squash courts has been upcycled into a theatre. |
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