ANOTHER bath day.

Hello Mummy,
Some friends of Sharon and Elaine's have just moved up the road to Best Island, so today Elaine took us to visit. Well! Is it paradise or what! You have to drive over a causeway to get to the house, and it is RIGHT ON THE BEACH. There are only about 30 houses on the whole island, and a farm, a golf course and a pine plantation. We went for a walk - HEAVEN - there are rabbits! My nose couldn't believe its luck - I am going to talk to Elaine about going back there in the evening - I BET I could catch my own dinner (NOTE from Elaine - over my dead body!)
I ran and swam and rolled in gorgeous smells, got SOOOO muddy, and had the best time - so did Louis.





Of course, when we got home, Elaine gave us a bath - she just doesn't appreciate the finer things in life!!

Hairy Maclairy and Muffin Maclay....

One of the things I like about living here, is that I can see who is going past (very occasionally it is fun to bark at dogs that are going past).

Every now and again a group of children from the childcare centre along the road come to visit. They are a bit confused though... they keep calling me Hairy Maclairy, and Louis Muffin Maclay.

For those of you who don't know about these stories, they are written by Lynley Dodd, and are about an adventurous wee dog called Hairy Maclary and his friends. Here is a pictue of them.
Hairy Maclairy from Donaldson's Dairy, Bitzer Maloney all skinny and boney, Bottomley Potts all covered in spots, Muffin Maclay like a bundle of hay, Hurculeas Morse as big as a horse and Schnitzel von Krumm with a very low tum.

...ANOTHER river walk....

Hey mummy, when you said I was coming to Nelson, you didn't tell me that there are sooooo many wonderful rivers. Last weekend we went 10 minutes down the road to the Appleby River. There has been LOTS of snow - as you can see in the photo, and the river was quite high because of all the rain.

It is such fun zipping around chasing sticks. - Can you see where Louis finds something DELICIOUS to eat and I steal it? - Too quick for anybody to stop me!!!



I hear that you are going walking without moi! I will have woofs to say about that when I see you next!! In the meantime I am staying fit with the Nelson girls, ready for when you come home in the new year.
Lots of love, Bollie brave-girl.

THE BIG STORM!

Well Mummy, we have just had 3 really really big storms in a week. The first one was the deepest depression thay have seen in 30 years (people died in that one - all in the north island. It was vicious and fast moving, and Nelson wasn't hit too badly. The next one was as big as the Tasman sea, not quite so low, but very slow moving, and caused flooding and wind damage in the North Island, and absolutely decimated Nelson before it headed south and caused flooding all over Canterbury - SH1 is still closed and so is the railway line near Kaikoura.
Anyway, on wednesday it was pretty windy in Nelson, and Elaine got stuck in Christchurch because the planes couldn't fly into Nelson. Sharon got home from work and decided to take us for a quick walk, but when we got to the park, the wind was worse and the trees were making cracking noises, so we went home and battened down the hatches. And just as well we did. We were safe as anything in the wee house, but there was devastation all around us! I couldn't believe it the next day! The big park up the road lost over 100 beautiful old trees. Just a couple of hundred meters up the road 2 houses got smashed by trees, and the railway reserve that we love to walk in just up the road lost lots of trees. The water supply to Nelson got smashed and won't be fixed until tomorrow, so we are having to be careful with water.

Here are some pictures from the Railway reserve which is about 200m from our house.

I hope are enjoying summer, while we survive this terrible winter!

love your Bollie. XXXX