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| In the hills of Reikorangi |
After spending Wellington Anniversary Weekend with Clare's sister, the girls talking and breathing knitting, catching up with the family, choosing a car for Cate to buy and going to see the fabulous movie ... Jojo Rabbit .... we headed off to Carterton for a short sit. Who even knew Carterton was a place!?! It is, and quite a cute wee one at that.
Here we would be staying in a straw bale house looking after ginger Ollie.
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| Sharing some snapper with Ollie |
There wasn't much to do except a bit of garden watering so we just kicked back and had a mini holiday. Clare's nephew had given us some snapper he had caught in Wellington from his kayak so we made fish cakes and shared some of the fish with a very happy kitten.
Our next sit was on the other side of the Tararuas, back on the Kapiti Coast. Reikorangi is situated on the hills, inland from Waikanae. The property we were to be sitting was quite isolated and up a rather tricky driveway. Fortunately we are well versed with tricky driveways. We enjoyed watching the deer come in to feed on the lawn of an early evening.
Our companions here were Bee, a Pitbull cross (front) and 8mth old, full of beans May, a beardie cross (Rear)
In New Zealand, Pitbulls (and crosses) are one of a few breeds that have restrictions placed on them. One of these is that they must be muzzled whilst out in public. Luckily we did not have to take the girls off the property to exercise them. We really struggle with this law and believe that such restrictions should be dog specific not breed specific. Unfortunately, the problem is exacerbated by the fact that 'the wrong type' of owner is attracted to the breed because of their (usually) mislabelled reputation.
Anyway, a more gentle, loving and well trained doggy you could not meet than Bee.
She is such a lovely big sister to May, playing with her so nicely and helping to expend some of May's puppy energy.
And once all the energy had been expended, there was always time to lay in the sun.
We also had two cats to care for, Caster and Pollux. We didn't see Caster at all and were advised this would most likely be the case. But Pollux joined us every night on the bed, demanding lots of pats and shouting the odds if we weren't forthcoming. All in a days/nights work to us!
A great time was had by all. We certainly enjoyed spending time in an area of New Zealand we had not experienced before.
Our companions here were Bee, a Pitbull cross (front) and 8mth old, full of beans May, a beardie cross (Rear)
In New Zealand, Pitbulls (and crosses) are one of a few breeds that have restrictions placed on them. One of these is that they must be muzzled whilst out in public. Luckily we did not have to take the girls off the property to exercise them. We really struggle with this law and believe that such restrictions should be dog specific not breed specific. Unfortunately, the problem is exacerbated by the fact that 'the wrong type' of owner is attracted to the breed because of their (usually) mislabelled reputation.
Anyway, a more gentle, loving and well trained doggy you could not meet than Bee.
She is such a lovely big sister to May, playing with her so nicely and helping to expend some of May's puppy energy.
And once all the energy had been expended, there was always time to lay in the sun.
We also had two cats to care for, Caster and Pollux. We didn't see Caster at all and were advised this would most likely be the case. But Pollux joined us every night on the bed, demanding lots of pats and shouting the odds if we weren't forthcoming. All in a days/nights work to us!
A great time was had by all. We certainly enjoyed spending time in an area of New Zealand we had not experienced before.
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| Looks like the girls enjoyed spending time with us too! |
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