Firstly… we’re ok. There has been an extraordinary amount of rain in our neck of the woods this week. So much so the word unprecedented has been bandied about quite freely. But it isn’t everyday you see people wading through the airport up to their knees or water cascading over motorway barriers like a infinity pool or sloshing about inside buses. Sadly this has been … Continue reading It’s been unprecedented
We had another storm… I think I’m getting used to them. They are quite unavoidable here on the wild west coast. There was about four days when the wind howled a hooley and freezing cold rain came in sideways. You could watch the squalls form out at sea and come in across the waves and pound at our window. The strongest gust was 100 km, … Continue reading Storm schorm
We are now in summer and I was hoping to put all my troubles behind me. Of the first four days of the season, there hasn’t been much to complain about except a two-hour window of intense craziness on Tuesday. There we were, minding our own business, enjoying what was promising to be another delightful summer day. Never ending blue skies with a hint of … Continue reading Aftermath
A few weeks I asked this question in jest in response to the winter weather conditions. I now know exactly how bad it could be. We have just been through a terrible storm and it would seem it isn’t called the ‘wild west coast’ for nothing! Now I’m not naïve and I knew there would be strong winds, I just thought I’d have at least … Continue reading How bad can it be?
Well that was a close shave. After all the warnings from the Civil Defence via the media, we were all set for Cyclone Pam to wreak havoc, and after all the tragedy it caused in Vanuatu, it left a lot of us a little worried. But it sailed passed us with no more damage than our ordinary storms. There were trees down, choppy waves and … Continue reading Is there such thing as too many tomatoes?
I am watching rain going across the hills in the distance sideways and now it is so heavy I can’t see the hills at all. Seriously, when is all this going to stop! There is water everywhere. The ground is sodden and I don’t think it can take much more. In the last three days we have had over 40mm of rain, but not that … Continue reading Holding out for a pea!
Not last night but the night before we had a huge storm the wreaked havoc throughout the country. There were 170km an hour winds and some areas got a month load of rain in a day. It was pretty wild and a lot of damage has been done. I missed it. I was so tired I slept through it all. Which was probably just as … Continue reading You could say we had a bit of rain…
Gosh it was so hard to sort out my crop rotation – I nearly worked up a sweat! Actually no – it was so simple. A couple of years ago I came up with a three pronged crop rotation system that gets all the crops to be moved along, while gaining or creating value for the plants before and after it. I think I have … Continue reading The start of daylight savings is a great time to rotate crops.
I have become a bit complacent. The greenhouse is still not quite finished. It is just a couple of roof panes that need to go in, but I can’t do it by myself as I really don’t want to be climbing ladders with glass all by myself – it just seems a little bit too dangerous. So the plan is to climb the ladder safely … Continue reading That had to be the worst night ever!
As far as storms go – it has been quite sunny. There have been loads of rainbows, loads of strong winds and loads of that big fat raindrop rain, thunder and lightning and we got hail – loads of hail! Around 2:00pm the temperature dropped to 6°C but for the most part it was sunny. For some of my fellow kiwis, it is a bit … Continue reading A multiple choice heading: A) This is a strange storm; B) I gave the mice too much credit; C) The worst cake ever!
