I allowed myself a cheeky little lay in this morning but was still up about 9am. I grabbed a shower and then helped Jade with making Shane and Krishmas room up as we were picking them up today and they were staying for the night. We sorted out the macaroni for dinner too before heading off to Jades mum and dads farm to do some work. Jade had to mark up which ones were dry or not producing enough milk to be culled in the next few days. Whilst she did that, I had t...

The alarm went off at 5.45am and thankfully, the past few months have got me quite accustomed to early starts so it wasn't too hard. We wrapped up warm and I put my overalls on as apparently cow s*** stains. We took our cups of tea down to the cow shed where the cows were already being milked. Jesus there was a lot of them! I had a go at putting the cups on their t*** to pump the milk out, which was a little bit weird. I felt where the milk went through the pipes...

We got up early this morning, not to do the cows as it was wet and miserable (plus Jock said the cows had s*** everywhere due to the bad weather and it wasn't a nice place to be this morning), but to get ready to go back to Christchurch for Jades orthodontist appointment. I was aware that I'd just come from here the day before but it was nice to spend time with Jade and also to see the route that I'd driven yesterday from the passenger seat. It's hard to take in ...

I woke up this morning after a cold nights sleep on the air bed. Gareth's girlfriend got up and went home and I got up soon after. I was driving to the west coast today so Gareth cooked me a BBQ breakfast so I was well fed before I went! It was a gorgeous morning, sunny and warm, so we ate out on the balcony. We chatted for a bit but I wanted to get on the road as it was going to take about 4 hours to get to Jades. I filled up again and hit the road. I drove via...