The big yearly event in Alexandra is their Blossom festival, anyone from Lincolnshire just think of Flower Parade and you've got the idea. It all kicked off on the Friday night with a Mardi Gras night. There's a race up the clock on the hill with a kids relay race and the adults raced by themselves but had to go through the river rather than other the bridge. There were; bed races, best dressed bike competition and pulling a fire truck competition which were ...

We had come to Alexandra with the promise of two weeks work but I haven't finished pruning in the orchard I was doing and Murray our boss said there were a few things he could get me to do after that as well so we have another couple of weeks of work which is great. We had to move out of the sleepout at Murray's house as he had some travellers coming to woof (housework in return for free accommodation) at his house. This meant we moved into a four bedroom h...

So we got to Dunedin which is a pretty big city on the South Island which we thought might be a good place to find some work. We spent the first few days finding all of the work agencies and registering with them. They all told us the same story - there is a not a lot of work around and then we did a lot of looking online, calling people and generally keeping ourselves busy for a week and a half. Then when were just about on the verge of giving up and moving on...