Parakuihi

parakuihi: breakfast. As in, kua whakareri tōku wahine i te parakuihi or my wife has prepared breakfast.


Dunedin continues to be an exciting and promising place to live. The last few weeks have seen some glorious weather, and we took a lovely trip to St Kilda to visit the ocean there. It is only a short bus ride away and promises some awesome surfing opportunities despite the threat of sharks (including white pointers, or "porkers" as Quint calls them, Hooper would say: "It's a Carcharadon carcarias, it's a Great white"). But Jaws quotes aside, the risk has got to be low, right?




The worm farm is slow to start as the little wormies chomp through the coconut husk bedding they were provided with and shun the relatively unpalatable kitchen scraps. I hope to wean them off the coconut within the next few weeks so we can start putting most of our green waste in there, rather than ini the straightforward compost heap. Whether you like it or not, I will keep you posted! We have also planted peas and spinach and have a healthy coriander plant growing. That's really exciting because it is supposedly quite hard to grow in colder climes.

Ellen has been very busy at work and has been enjoying fitting our new place with furniture and bits and pieces of kitchenware etc. It is all looking very good and we hope to be buying a nice couch soon so we can enjoy the winter evenings in front of our open fire. Both of us are thinking of the wedding nect year and how awesome it is going to be to have friends and family all together. Also, we happy many of the travellers from overseas will be able to stay with us here in Dunedin as part of their trip and to enjoy some of Otago's famous attractions.

I have joined a football team called Mornington and hope to get into the first team this season. It is a small side and not expected to do well. Come on the underdogs!