Now it’s just a matter of waiting till the 17 January for the lawyers to get back to work, and find out where we are with the house. I’ve got all the organising done I need to, I know who to deal with in Takaka and Motueka for everything I want, from the poly tunnels, to irrigation supplies, pumps etc. All I need is to be down there.
I’ll probably be sleeping on airbeds for a while, till I work out what I’m doing with the house. There’s a lot of finishing work to be done inside, and some changes to make it feel and look more like somewhere I’d live. Once I get a few rooms back to finished I’ll start looking for furniture.
The weather is going from sunshine and blue skies, to grey overcast, windy, rain promised, but the temp still manages to stay warmish. I can see winters down in Golden Bay getting colder for the next few years, but I’ll deal with that in a few months once I have the tunnel houses set up, and start looking for cheap heaters to go in them. I’d like a few of the old kerosene heaters we had in the glasshouses, but as they went back in the mid 60’s when we put electric fan heating in, I haven’t seen anything like them since, which is amazing considering the thousands that were in use then. Everyone I knew at school on the market gardens around Otahuhu and Papatoetoe all had the same heaters. You knew which were the market garden kids in winter, we were the ones half asleep from being up at 1am refilling the kerosene heaters in the glasshouses. I think we had 120 or 140 of them in the two houses, I know it took an hour to an hour and a half to refill them all, then back to bed and up a few hours later for school.
Still, being outside on a crisp winter night, seeing the halo around the moon, feeling the grass crunch under your feet, I actually enjoyed it.
Not a lot happening at the moment, I’ll keep this updated.
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