Out of Communication

DEAR SPOOK It is great to hear that Wanaka still has a stong feeling of home despite your family bailing out on you. I love to hear that you cycled in the Sticky Woods with Pete and his son and bumped into Chris and his son on the way home and went to the pub with them. And that you are having dinner at Pete's tomorrow. It really is amazing the difference in climate. It is very mild here, but wild and windy. some of the hills are dark and rusty and others are yellow and orange with some bright green spots. Autumn is all on the hillsides. Although this wind might blow all the leaves off the trees before they get a chance to change colour. I pity the poor bride who is getting married today. Hard to stay dry and all in one piece. ~The house seems quite dark, so I am planning to paint everything white. But it is cosy and the landlady is quite friendly. Unfortunately, I have no phone, no mobile and no internet, so I feel I am in a remote location. I had my morning coffee sitting on the bench seat at the table and loved looking out our window. Yes, the rain was driving accross the view, but that seems to work over here. I haven't had the nerve to go out to the shed. The potential hairyness of everything out there is too scary a prospect. There are horses everywhere. I hope that is enough to keep your daughter content without rushing out to buy one. Uncle Jamie will keep her right on that. I forgot to say that Uncle Jamie and Auntie Al were round yesterday, as was Aunty Coila - not that anyone got much sense out of me as my head was spinning at high speed. So much for maintaining that lovely pace of life in the south island. I hope you bump into Mary, Maggie, Carrie and Mark. Has John found his way to your new abode yet???? and of course I know you will be round at the Turners when their holiday is over. I do love that you are still there, so that those people don't seem so far away iether. You don't need to be in the middle of our chaotic house just now. You are better in your wee sleepout while we make our house back into our home. Keep telling me every little detail. It would be very easy back here, to forget we were ever away. I'm not ready to feel that way. xx