Spring has Arrived

September heralds the arrival of Spring down here in the Southern Hemisphere.  Our winter was not too bad this year, yes, we have had cold spells, wind and rain, plus a little snow on the back ranges, but overall I think winter was fairly mild.  Wonder what that means for summer this year?  As long as we get some sunshine to coincide with caravan holidays, we will be happy.

Someone who is a little unhappy lately is Robin, he has come down with some sort of lurgy, coughing, spluttering, aches and pains.  According to the Medical Centre when he went for his (unrelated) blood pressure check-up last week, it seems lots of patents who have recently returned from Australia have been presenting with the same symptoms.  Probably something picked up in the air flights, we all know that the circulating air picks up all sorts of bugs from travelers.  With a lot of TLC he is slowly coming right.

And this is a sign of Spring – our Kowhai tree is dripping with golden yellow blossoms.  We brought this tree as a young self sown sapling from our garden in Upper Hutt when we relocated to Levin five years ago (is it really that long?) and it has grown well in the back garden.