In between the work (1)

It's late Thursday afternoon here and the weather broke today, which was quite a relief. Typically, they had just introduced a 'sprinkler' ban here in Dunedin as they have had very little rain and are suffering water shortages - where have we heard that before?

On Tuesday evening I was invited to Kerry Shephard's house - he's the Director of the Higher Education Development Centre, where I'm based. He has what's known as a 'lifestyle property', meaning that it's way out of town (30 mins) with a lot of land. He has cows, sheep, hens as well as a lot of land and a hill with magnificent views. He also has a small dog called CoCo who I got to meet. After meeting Tony, my host's, dog Lucy the evening before, at least I'm not completely deprived of the company of dogs! Excuse my shadows in the photos - I've not had time to edit them out.

I had a very pleasant walk round the botanical gardens and aviary last evening as it's only five minutes from my hotel. Talking of which, here's a picture. It's very noisy as I'm on the ground floor and next to some traffic lights at which cars rev up to race each other away, even at 3.00am! The triple glazing doesn't seem to make much difference.