After picking more bee balm, unloading the trailer of celery, spinach and watermelons, and picking the rest of the plums, Heather made us a glass of her orange and lemon cordial up, and showed us round the barn which she wants to do up for her crystal work again. She got us to pick up a crystal, and told us what it meant. I picked up rose quartz and Heather asked me the first thought that came to my head which was marigolds for some reason- she said last night sh...

Heather went with Hamish on a school trip to Kaiteriteri beach, which is in Abel Tasman national park, and there wasn't anything really she could leave us to do without being there herself, so we had quite an easy going day. We were going to go for a walk, until Alice phoned her parents and realised she had quite a lot to sort out, so I finally managed to get into my Australian Superannuation account and get the application for that sent off, and updated my blog....

I think we must have had a conversation yesterday about how Alice ate oats with cinnamon and raisins, as this is what Heather made us for breakfast this morning, and I dared to try her jam on my toast afterwards which was very nice. Because she was in a rush to drop Hamish off at the bus stop, when he returned she needed a fresh cup of coffee, and so we sat around and talked for a while, which meant we didn't start work until 9.30. We started off picking the bee ...

It was absolutely freezing in our room when we woke up, so it was even harder to get up for breakfast at 7.30. Heather served us some porridge, which Alice started putting jam onto, until Heather said that the amount on the table was all we had, so we had sugar and dried bananas instead. We then each had a slice of toast each, and then tea and coffee whilst Heather took Hamish to the bus stop for the school bus. Apparently the colder the morning, the hotter it ge...

Jacquie's boyfriend lives near where the farm we have gone to work on is, which worked out well as she was happy to drive us there in her ex-husbands van (she only has a small convertible, and it would have been very hard to get there any other way). We took our bags into the little cabin that's off the side of Dave and Heather's house, which is where we'll be staying, and then had a drink of water/ coffee with them a bit, before meeting a few of Heather's animal...