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For the past couple of days we’ve noticed that the plum tree in the orchard has suddenly grown juicy delicious plums! However there is alot of competition when it comes to getting to the plums first because the little wild colourful parrots (can’t remember their name right now..!) try to eat them all up. Got there first today!

HAPPY NEW YEAR ALL!!! So the poppy seeds from the poppies have dried up! I spent a bit of time today opening up the flowers to capture the awesomess inside. And to top it off my super chef husband made bagels with them!!! Oh man, i think bagels are one of my favorite most missed food from Montreal, and these just made my day, week and month. YUMMMM!!! Take that St-Viateur and Fairmont! (PS – to see how to make these bready bits of heaven check out adams blog www.adamfanson.wordpress.com)

Hi guys! This Christmas was spent on the playa in the hot sun, surfing!! It was awesome!!! We decided to leave the farm for a few days to drive towards Opunake in the Taranaki region. We went to that exact area because it was the only place where there was going to be some decent swell. Unfortunately xmas morning was spent in the nearby hospital, as Adam ripped the skin between his toes, on a tent peg. Even though he was supposed to keep it dry, that didn’t stop him from enjoying a xmas surf however… Instead of stitching him up they put some weird tissue glue and he was all better. Not too many photos as we were pretty busy ripping it up in the water!!! And no photos of the gross ripped toe (I almost passed out when seeing it!). I hope you all had a great holiday season!!!

Hi guys, we had some adorable baby ducks born on the farm today, 19 of them!!! (From 2 mothers). They are the softest, cutest things ever. Adam found them floating around in the pond! I think he might have his eye on a few to eat though….

Hello hello! So I’ve been looking everywhere for these awesome old school straws, and recently someone gave some to me. I was stoked! Needed to use them in a photo! So here we are:

Hi guys! It was a nice warm weekend here in Wellington and Adam and I had a little time to go for a walk to a place we’d never been before, Eastbourne, the town opposite Wellington. The surf was not meant to be any good, but we wanted to see where we could go, once it does get good in Eastbourne. Unfortunately the road which we thought was accessible to see the break was only for walkers and cyclists.. Boo… But it was a nice long walk, too long even, and we never got to see the break. Instead we walked back to Eastbourne and ate some yummy gelato! Here are a few photos:

I forgot to say in my last post that it is my good friend’s birthday today. Nathalie is an amazingly talented contemporary jeweller. Contact her if you want some one of a kind pieces, she rocks!  Have an awesome day chica!

Bonjour, bonjour! We’ve been pretty busy lately.. so sorry for not posting anything in a little while. It really feels like summer now in NZ, but definitely not christmas! It’s getting warmer and sunnier, and people are putting their xmas trees up, weird!! Anyways, a few days ago we had another lovely wwoofer stay at the farm, Simona from Germany. She was a huge Lord of the Rings fan, so we took her on the Rivendell hike that we’d done before. We even made a day of it  and rented to Fellowship of the rings (1st time i ever saw it!) in the evening, to see if we could see any of the hike we did… There is only one little bit we noticed though, and it was the river… I also added a photo of a weta (after months, I finally found one!) what a cool creepy bug! Harmless though.

Hi guys! Just 2 wee photos today… Sorry I’ve been a bit lazy with the picture box lately… The pics are of the pets who aren’t aloud indoors. Even Minty knows she can’t come in! Her mother (Adam) trained her well. Good news about Minty, she is finally eating grass! And getting bigger and bigger. I don’t want her to grow up…    To see some photos i took of what we ate for din dins have alook at the chefs blog www.adamfanson.wordpress.com. Ciao!

Hi guys! So it was finally a lovely evening, which mean, cocktails!!!  I swear I’m not an alccy or anything… I just really love coming up with new cocktails with the Bees Blessing cordials. This cocktail in particular is quite easy to replace the Lemon Honey if you don’t have that lying around.  If you are in NZ then you should defo buy some Lemon Honey cordial though…  Thyme for another!!

Hi guys! Here are a few shots from the Bees Blessing Taffy Pop campaign! hee hee

Hi guys! So today, i must admit i was feeling a bit un-inspired… the weather was bad – very windy and tornado-ey feeling, sideways rain: the works (more like autumn than spring..!) We stayed inside making some delicious Ginger Taffy Pops however, which gave me an artificial sugary boost of ginger happiness.  I only have one photo today… of the wellies that kept me dry. (to see how to make ginger taffy pops go to www.adamfanson.wordpress.com) !

Hola chicos y chica! I hope you are having a good start to the week. It was crazy weather in Wellington area today, woke up thinking there was a tornado or something going on outside. It was SOOO windy and rainy. But i found out that this is quite normal for this time of year, the reason why it’s called Windy Welly! I took a nice walk this afternoon when the weather was better and went to check out the neighbor’s cool pig and friends donkeys. It’s weird how at home i feel in the country side, and am so thankful for being here, in such clean fresh air. Some pics from my walk:                        (to see what i ate today go to: www.adamfanson.wordpress.com !!!!)