Bears in Shorts

 This will not mean much to those of you in the Northern hemisphere, obviously! But you might find it interesting.     https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hgxifXxMHAw It's looking like a bumper season for citrus as I saw lots of trees laden with fruit. These two are along b-i-l's drive.                                                  Mandarines Lemons We're still in limbo, as far as living-out-of-suitcase goes, as the ship bringing the rest of our goods and chattels has, apparently, been to Noumea and is not due in Auckland for a few days yet.  So we continue to walk the streets when weather allows and power through library books when it doesn't! I must say, the local library system is brilliant...books can be ordered, borrowed, returned between ALL Auckland area libraries. And down the road we currently live on there is a native bush park, w...

Glorious weather on Saturday so we left the still wet (from 3 extra rain rinses that caught us on the hop) laundry on the line and went for a drive... ...  https://www.aucklandcouncil.govt.nz/parkmaps/map-waitawa-regional-park.pdf It was all new to me! Quite a few people were dangling strings in the water; some had gaffer-taped their rods to the wharf railings and adjourned for lunch... The sunshine obliged all the way back to the house and the laundry was brought indoors to dry-off. (Isn't this exciting! 😄) Sunday was rubbish! Cold, wet and uninspiring. Today? A repeat of Saturday's weather.  Now, I'm struggling with little camera so I'll post this and see if I can get some better images fot the next post. Please don't go away!