{"id":624,"date":"2017-01-02T21:29:10","date_gmt":"2017-01-02T21:29:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lrd.co.nz\/wordpress\/?page_id=624"},"modified":"2017-11-04T04:29:28","modified_gmt":"2017-11-04T04:29:28","slug":"june-2016","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/lrd.co.nz\/?page_id=624","title":{"rendered":"June 2016"},"content":{"rendered":"

Haere Mai<\/p>\n

The start of the month saw Ann panicking when one of her students kindly poured his water bottle over her laptop (and she hadn\u2019t backed it up for months).\u00a0It took 2 days and Peter\u2019s technical know-how to fix it \u2013 then do a full back-up!<\/p>\n

We had a lovely long weekend celebrating the Queen\u2019s birthday on Monday 6th June. Then we discovered that Honey is able to jump the 1.2m high wooden fence \u2013 eeek! We can\u2019t build the fencing any higher so we had to borrow an electric fence from the friend of our next door neighbour. Yes we expect lots of you to gasp and tut. A few years ago we did the same when someone suggested we use an electric fence to stop Maxie from escaping. But logically we\u2019d rather Honey had one brief experience with the fence than a permanent one with a moving vehicle. Honey encountered the fence the following evening when she got all excited by next doors\u2019 Ute driving off. She hasn\u2019t been near that fence since. HOWEVER \u2026\u2026 she managed to escape out of another part of our section which was well fenced before we planted hedging. Although we couldn\u2019t see a gap in the fence Ann thought she knew where Honey might have escaped based on where she was last seen. So Ann had to get into her car and drive around into the nearby set of sections to look for the Houdini hound. And yes there was Honey \u2013 desperately trying, and failing, to get back into the garden. Honey was so happy to see Ann that it was impossible for us to tell her off.<\/p>\n

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One evening we decided to get a takeaway from the Noodle shop in Te Awamutu instead of fish and chips from the pub in the village. Normally Peter goes for the takeaway with the girls and Ann stays behind but this time Ann went too. When Maxie ran over to the Ute and saw Ann sitting in the front seat where she normally sits\u2026.. well – to say she was unimpressed is an understatement. She looked from Ann to Peter and back again, sighed and slowly climbed into the back of the vehicle.<\/p>\n

We\u2019ve now replaced the ake ake and flax that we had removed a couple of months ago. We\u2019ve planted more camellias (camellia setsugekka) which has a beautiful white, scented flower in late autumn\/early winter. It should start looking gorgeous over the next few years. Peter has also cut the corokia and kanuka hedges and he’s slowly working his way along the red robin.<\/p>\n

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\nOne of the places he worked in was the aviation hall.
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He was not impressed with the hotel restaurant – he was the only person in there and it still took them 45 minutes to serve him a simple steak. Fortunately his favourite pub, Galbraiths<\/a> was only a 15 minute walk away so he managed to get a decent meal one night.<\/p>\n

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Mike had a lovely holiday in North Wales with Carol, David and friends.<\/p>\n

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