The bach has landed

You've seen the flying thresher and tractor, yesterday they hoisted a bach (holiday house) into the main exhibition space. It is one of the first prototypes of the port-a-bach and was built in the 1970's (I think) out of a shipping container - that's why it doesn't look like much here. But when it's all back together and opened up it has everything you need including kitchen, sleeping space and one of the sides drops down to form a deck. It had to have it's top taken off to fit through our loading bay, which it did with only millimeters to spare, one reason why I just couldn't watch the whole process, the other being that it took 5 hours. So here are some photos from the start of the process.

Arriving - if you look closely you can see the wall units inside

Up she goes

A tight squeeze - museum on the right, security fence on the left.

What do you do...

if you have arranged for an end of year class get together at the beach and the weather is best described as dead dodgy and more than a bit damp but not technically raining?

You go anyway, set the van up to block the breeze off the water, get out the BBQ, fire it up and have a great time anyway.


We started as just a small dedicated crew from our combined Te Reo classes BBQing in the mist but by the end we were about 30 students and whanau (family) and a good time was had by all.

Rhodofesting

Mum and Dad have been visitng gardens each day they have been here and yesterday we did an organised trip to 5 gardens including the big garden up at Pukeiti. All of them were beautiful in their own way as you can see, what you can't see is the howling wind that threatened to knock us over if we ventured into parts unprotected.

Today we walked part of the new extension to the coastal walkway including the Te Rewa Rewa bridge.

Tragic end to the week

Sipping bubbly and eating cheese and fruit...

in a lovely garden whilst listening to live music.

Hamlet gets his geek on

Each month I get the Wheeler Writers Centre's newsletter. They are in Melbourne and even though I can't go to any of their events it is interesting to know what's going on.

This month in honour of Nicki Greenberg's graphic novel of Hamlet they have given over editorship to the Prince himself. And the best bit? Right at the bottom...

Wouldst thou stay in Touch?

Lend thine ears for atwitterings

Locate thyself on foursquare

Befriend us in the manner of facebook

Impart this e-missive to a friend

Sounds lovely doesn't it? even if you have no idea what any of it means.