Yesterday was the first day of spring when I could sit outside in the sun and find it warm. I finished reading 'Small Island', the lovely book by Andrea Levy, and then dipped into a book of Songs and Poems of Queen Salote of Tonga. Today has been grey and about 5 to 7 degrees cooler.
We have completed our flight bookings for our December 2005/January 2006 trip to New Zealand. Now we've begun to book accommodation, with our first three nights at Villa Bruce, in Paihia, and five nights over Christmas, at the farmstay Tara Valley, near Rotorua.These are places we know well now, and know the people.
The Paihia days will allow us to go to Whangarei to see the house we bought there last July, a house we have seen only in photos. How I long for the day when we can go and live there...
