FINDING MATARIKI

 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, which is where we're headed today, now that the sun's doing its thing.

https://www.google.com/search?q=kirks+bush+papakura

Yes, I'll take the camera!

A DAY TRIP ON A SUNNY DAY.

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!