A little back track to Warkworth, the Kimberley days...

Hello!

I just realised I didn't write much about what we got up to after Kim joined me in Warkworth. Things carried on much a normal in terms of jobs, except with the addition of some very sweaty and mucky composting!

We had to empty a full compost bin ( about a metre cubed or so of decomposed poo, hay, and a few mystery creatures thrown in- we joked about them being failed wwoofers....eeek!) onto the flower and herb beds. This was pretty stinky and tiring work involving some annoying wheelbarrows and obstacles, but we felt a big sense of achievement and some pleasantly aching abs at the end of it all.

We then had to fill it up again which was a bit less arduous but way stinkier and involved hanging out in a bit of semi-dark bush with lots of mossies and mud and poo. We emerged out smeared and sweating, blinking in to the brightly sunlit greenery of the garden, like we'd copme out of a mine or somesuch. Very wierd and exhilirating after all the graft.

So we were finally breaking in some real farm girl muscle and learning about the dark side of the idyllic organic farmlife. All not too bad though, relative to the bush clearing on Waiheke! We've got quite accustomed to shovelling horse poo in one form or another. It's freakishly meditative and rarely smells of much. Wierd I know... fear not, we are taking a few days off from wwoofing soon but more about that later.

In terms of fun and games. We had a lovely trip to the beach one super hot evening, and a fish and chip supper to follow which was heavenly. They are big on kumara (sweet potato) chips here, with aioli! mmmm!!

We had lots of our usual hilarity and spent a fair amount of time and money on crafts. We got really into Dukit- which is a polymer clay that comes in heaps of different colours, quite like Fimo (for those in the know). A friend of the family is a wonderful artist and makes sort of picture pieces with Dukit. She spent an intense afternoon pouring out all her Dukit expertise, including how to 'Gild' it with gold mica powder, how to impress objects and take perfect moulds- which you can then bake and use as moulds to recreate the original object in Dukit- amazing!!

gtg eat now but will continue more soon....