It's the first day of March, it's only 7pm and it's completely dark outside. Daylight savings being over will take a bit of adjustment. Cher is sitting on the couch beside me staring because her dinner time is 7.30pm and she's confused - she doesn't know that it's only 7pm and not 8pm. The cat is too cool to beg for dinner, he's just sleeping.
March has been an interesting month. We have had several set of Airbnb guests - who would have thought that Wainui was a popular place to stay? Some are people passing though, just need a cheap place to sleep. Some want to have some quiet time and go for walks in the bush. And some are in Wellington more long term and need somewhere to stay while the look for somewhere to live. We've had one that could hardly speak English, an older couple from Singapore that were super chatty, told us about their lives and made me dinner, some young French people that shared our interest in fantasy books and sci-fi movies, and a young English couple, one of which has got a temporary job at MPI, just a floor above me!
Also in March we have done a lot of research about our trip to Europe, and finally booked flights. We're going to leave New Zealand on 12 September, go to Denmark, Germany and the Netherlands, and get back to New Zealand on the 5th of October. We're going to spend lots of money and make the most of it. I have a pinterest board so that when I'm browsing things to do in Europe I don't forget them. In Copenhagen there is the oldest amusement park in Europe - it still works just fine. And we have a friend with rich parents who have a fancy house near Amsterdam that we can stay in for a few nights. And we can visit Bremen, where I stayed for a month or so way back in the second year of my PhD.
Other March events. We went to see Star Wars with a live orchestra - it was awesome. Movies should always have a live orchestra. My tomatoes are finally ripening - they are still going. And I have some winter crops starting to grow - carrots and silverbeet, and more peas. They are doing the best so far. We are working on the area above the retaining wall, weeding it and getting it ready to plant. I got given a rhubarb plant and all the herbs will go up there, but mostly I'll just sprinkle a seed mix of flowers to try and keep the weeds at bay until the whole thing is planted properly. We figure that the area is not very useable, so we might as well plant useful things up there - herbs, berry bushes, small fruit trees.
March has been an interesting month. We have had several set of Airbnb guests - who would have thought that Wainui was a popular place to stay? Some are people passing though, just need a cheap place to sleep. Some want to have some quiet time and go for walks in the bush. And some are in Wellington more long term and need somewhere to stay while the look for somewhere to live. We've had one that could hardly speak English, an older couple from Singapore that were super chatty, told us about their lives and made me dinner, some young French people that shared our interest in fantasy books and sci-fi movies, and a young English couple, one of which has got a temporary job at MPI, just a floor above me!
Also in March we have done a lot of research about our trip to Europe, and finally booked flights. We're going to leave New Zealand on 12 September, go to Denmark, Germany and the Netherlands, and get back to New Zealand on the 5th of October. We're going to spend lots of money and make the most of it. I have a pinterest board so that when I'm browsing things to do in Europe I don't forget them. In Copenhagen there is the oldest amusement park in Europe - it still works just fine. And we have a friend with rich parents who have a fancy house near Amsterdam that we can stay in for a few nights. And we can visit Bremen, where I stayed for a month or so way back in the second year of my PhD.
Other March events. We went to see Star Wars with a live orchestra - it was awesome. Movies should always have a live orchestra. My tomatoes are finally ripening - they are still going. And I have some winter crops starting to grow - carrots and silverbeet, and more peas. They are doing the best so far. We are working on the area above the retaining wall, weeding it and getting it ready to plant. I got given a rhubarb plant and all the herbs will go up there, but mostly I'll just sprinkle a seed mix of flowers to try and keep the weeds at bay until the whole thing is planted properly. We figure that the area is not very useable, so we might as well plant useful things up there - herbs, berry bushes, small fruit trees.
