Wednesday

Jon went to visit a kiwi fruit grower in Te Puke (Te Pookey) this morning and came back here mid morning with a tray of 30 eggs that the farmer had given him. They are free range, organic eggs from chickens that roam in the kiwi groves and eat corn so the yolks are really golden. He also gave him the biggest sack of kiwi fruit I have ever seen! I kept ten of the eggs and sent the rest in to the office and we took a bag, the size of a supermarket bag, of kiwi fruit and you couldn't notice the difference. Shame they weren't passion fruit!

I went out to the post office this morning, it is lovely to use the PO here - there are plenty of them and no queues! I sent off all my cards and a parcel to the new baby.

I then went up to the cafe and had a nice cup of coffee sitting in the sun. I then went and had a walk around the shops. I found a new pet shop which is very nice and they had some lovely puppies and kittens for sale along with rabbits guinea pigs, birds and fish and all very well kept in very clean conditions.

We had omelet and salad for lunch which was very nice but the kiwi fruit are a little sour and will need to ripen up. I just hope they don't go off before they ripen. I have never had to ripen kiwi fruit as they are usually ready to eat when you buy them in the UK. These would not pass the UK supermarket's quality control - they are all shapes and sizes.

Joan called to say the weather is going to be good again tomorrow and would I like to go for a walk on the Mount with her so we arranged to meet at 9.30 when the school run is over!