tails from the southland

Hello all, well not knowing exactly when i last wrote anything, lets just say that beverly and i have been having a ball now that we have moved from the rainy north island to beautiful Golden Bay on the north end of the south island. Beverly and i have spend a week right on the bay spending time with a family who bought 100 acres off of the Tui hippie commune five years ago. They have built what has been recognised as the most sustainable house in all of NZ. They also have the original hippie house which is a wierd house that is built on levels with no 90 degree corners, lets just say that i did my share of walking into walls and missing steps on the bizarre staircase.
We were asked if we could come back and spend the whole month of Feburary with them, which is the best time of the year-cant wait!
Next we came to the sunny Motueka Valley staying with a very nice family. Hear Beverly has learned how to butcher a goose. After deciding that we did not want to spend 60 dollars on a 12lb turkey an option to kill and butcher one of the pet geese was given, Beverly jumping at the thought of learning something "new." So after it was killed beverly helped with the plucking and gutting while i hid in the kitchen washing dishes. Beverly is glad that she learned how to do it, now she can do it in the future after the apocolypse.
Well hope all is good, have a happy turkey day-we'll be eating goose!