I was remembering our time in Central Otago this morning, and started thinking about my friend Dorothy. Dorothy was the best chicken in the world. She turned up on our doorstep one morning, after rambling through an orchard filled with peaches, nectarines, apricots and other goodies...She was the biggest chicken I'd ever laid eyes on. She was a friendly chicken, you could pick her up & give her a pat, she'd sit beside me outside in the sunshine & keep me company when I was home & Shane was at work.
Her visits became more frequent. Each morning we'd get up, go out to the lounge of our dilapidated cottage, and see her silhouette lurking on the other side of the frosted glass front door. We'd open the door, and in she'd waddle, gobbling up the crumbs from our toast. (she was a good chicken & never left a mess of any sort!).
The day before we left town, she came down as usual, came inside, and laid the biggest egg I've ever seen in the corner of the lounge. A special parting gift. We ate it on the beach in Amberley as we camped our way up to the North Island...it was so big it wouldn't even fit in the egg carton, and as yellow as the sun.
Lovely...
Jarvis decided he quite liked a pretty battered old cardy of mine last week. Not really the kind of thing you want to be carrying around the place, not really the kind of thing I should still be wearing after about 5 failed repair jobs...and it was only a $20 glassons cardy to start with. Pair of scissors, piece of ribbon, bit of finger knitting & bish bash bosh we have a snake-worm-creature. Nice.
Not only fun to play with, but tasty!
The sunnies were meant to be for our holiday...but as it rained the whole time they haven't really been used til today! Quite stylish!
We'll need an updated picture as now they're way bigger, but here are the two teeth :) Poor wee guy has been quite unimpressed about the whole tooth thing, they must be really sore! Thank goodness for the wonderful Amanda & her homoeopathic teething spray...
We have returned! My grand ideas of blogging whilst on holiday were foiled by a disagreeable computer (which has now been remedied...I went shopping for my inlaws & they now have a fully functional computer!).
A few adventures to report on, so I'll do it in a few parts...I can't find the camera right now, so photos will have to come later. Finding it could be a challenge as the house is looking kind of like that horrible little tornado that got Ramarama yesterday has come a visiting. But with a roof.
My plans of getting Jarvis to use his awesome hut while we were away lasted a day. Mister tricky discovered that he could roll over, do a bit of a shuffle, and commando crawl out the door!! He was 'napping' on the first day of our holiday when we heard a rustling sound, looked in & found him halfway out the door. Hmmmm. He doesn't like being zipped inside, so the tent had to be abandoned in favour of the hammock - from which there is no escape.
He's really becoming quite mobile, rolling around the room to get to where he wants to go, doing crazy shuffly things on his puku, making me think he might not be a stay in one place boy for much longer...It was his six month birthday on Sunday, where has the time gone?!
