Week 11 Omaha River Retreat.

Well, a very quiet week with little to report.
On Friday I drove down to Auckland to pick up Jonny who was here until Monday morning. Rob stayed here for the 3 nights that Jonny was here and took him back to Auckland,early on Monday morning. On Saturday morning Jonny and I went into Warkworth with Jess, Jill's daughter, so that she could do some shopping.
Sunday morning Nigel, Jonny and I went to play mini golf at Point Wells. Jonny enjoys playing and is certainly improving. I am not sure if it will be open for much longer, though, as the autumn leaves are littering the course.

On Monday we had a lot of rain and wind and the weather continued like that for most of the week. The rain diminished as the week went on but the showers were very heavy. Thankfully in betweeen the showers the sun shone so it wasn't all doom and gloom! On Thursday we went in to Matakana, to the cinema, to see"Salmon Fishing in the Yemen" which we both thoroughly enjoyed.
So as I said not a lot to report this week.
I will leave you with the thought that there are 30 million possum in New Zealand which is perhaps something that you have never thought about! They were introduced here in 1837, from Australia, for the fur trade. They are now considered a pest as they have no natural enimies here. As they are nocturnal we don't see them very often apart from squashed ones at the side of the road. We do though sometimes here them on the roof at night.