Heather let us take down the sweet corn plants first thing in the morning as it was very cold and so it was in a spot where we could warm up first. We braved doing 8 hours of work today, so the rest of the time was doing the barberry, but it wasn't too bad with my playlist I had made on my iPhone- singing along out loud (in private land so no one could hear us) made it a lot more enjoyable, although it only consisted of about 50 songs so I had to listen to it abo...

It was raining today, so what a shame, we didn't have to do the barberry. Instead we scrubbed the walls and ceilings, and did some dusting, along with Jana and Viktor, the Germans. Me and Alice thought we'd try and do a few hours of the barberry in the afternoon, as we want to get a day free to go to Abel Tasman, but unfortunately (although I think we were both secretly glad) it was still raining. I commented on Heather's totem stick that was in the corner which ...

Instead of working in the morning, David drove all of us to Motueka, as they have a Sunday market on. It was smaller than the Nelson one, with more of an alternative selection of stalls. I think the only thing anyone brought was some Neudorf cheese, although the Neudorf dairy is only down the road from their house! Whilst the Sands family went round New World, me and Alice had a look round the crystal shop nearby, although Heather says it's not as good as it use...

Being a Saturday, we got to have a lie in until 8.30. We weren't so good at herding sheep as we were with the one cow yesterday- we helped Heather and Dave try and get them out the gate four times, but every time they got near, they decided to run up the hill instead. Heather's dad had come round to help slaughter some of them, which I actually found really interesting. First of all they broke the sheep's necks, and then slit the throat. Even though they were de...

Since we were interested in seeing the cow getting milked, we helped herd Pearl (the milking cow) up to where the milking machine is. Now that there's the technology to machine pump it, I don't think we'll get a chance to do it by hand (especially as she's not producing much milk at the moment). We sliced up some plums to put in the dehydrator, in the hope of making prunes (although last time Heather tried this it didn't work so well), and then helped with the ...