October & November's Talk

As I write this the country continues to rattle as most regions are still experiencing after shocks from the heaviest shake that I can ever recall feeling. A part from a few products that fell off the shelf, we were pretty unscathed. We opened for business, which I think was great for peoples morale considering the night we all just had. With schools shut, we closed a little early so staff could be home with their families. MetService have forecast strong winds and heavy rain late today for Wellington and other areas, Aotearoa.....stay safe!

Did you have a ticket? Were you there....? If you were, you would have had a great time and enjoyed the show. So many people who attended, including those who helped or were in the show gave positive feedback on how much they enjoyed it (Even the men). To date we are still receiving praises because people enjoyed it so much. I'm just glad that all the hard work that went into it, we were able to achieve and exceed our goal of raising $10k for Life Flight. Thanks to all businesses and supporters for helping us to achieve this goal. NB: Pics below taken by various people on the day.

Knowing how busy we get leading up to the festive season. I thought it would be 'relaxing' for the team to celebrate Christmas a bit earlier this year. So we spent Labour weekend at Ferryman's Cottage in Martinborough. John and I went over on the Friday evening to prepare for what we were going to do the next day.. a hangi. On arriving at the cottage it was somewhat cold for this time of the year. But nothing a flick of a switch to turn the gas fire on didn't fix...
Much to our surprise the next day turned out to be beautiful and John was able to set our UFO up (Don't think the Parrot would have appreciated us digging a hole in his back yard).
The girls eventually arrived after a busy day in the salon ... lots of beverages were poured, obviously to help wash down the yummy food we had. I think we all tried hard to eat as much as we could... we played a few games of 'banana' which is similar to scrabble - except I don't think some of the words Alli was making you'd find in a dictionary (nice try thou).
The next morning was a too nice of a day to sit around so we thought we would take a cruise after breakfast to Ngawi & Lake Ferry. Ngawi had a Fishing Club day happening, lots of fisherman were weighing their catches for the day. Lot's of other people were camped up, enjoying the weather and the view. Moving along we made our way to Lake Ferry, sunny but a bit more breezier. We had a few drinks and a light snack before heading back to Martinborough where we continued socialising until late in the night.
Monday morning I had plans to cook a hearty brekky for everyone before departing home. But I decided a nice brunch at one of the local vineyards was in order. Except when we arrived at Margrain Vineyard none of us were overly hungry..so this is a small brunch..yeah right!
Martinborough you turned on another great weekend for us city people...we look forward to the next time.