The weekend with Easter in Dunedin

 Hi,

What a lovely weekend to Dunedin. So good to see Polly and Toby and get a few things done. Thanks to Ange for looking in on the cats too.

We flew down from Wellington on Wednesday night; Thursday saw us working from home at Polly's place. That worked fine. I was upstairs and Mike was in the extension downstairs. Toby arrived on his early morning flight from Christchurch and settled in.

It was cold! Brrrr.

Took a lunch break with everyone to No 7 Balmac. Mmmmm.

Visiting No 7 Balmac

Cold our first day

Iced latte is good here

Good Friday saw us busy with skip loading. Polly had already done a lot on Thursday while we worked. But today we emptied the loft.

Skip slowly getting filled up

Old oils

Old 303 bullets

We found these bullets and gave them to Richard to store safely. He did some research. They were made in Melbourne. In Footscray. In 1942! Yeah - we don't know how they ended up in Polly's loft either.

And the loft is clear

We went to the museum and met Hamish and Ryan there. Loved looking around that place. And the iced latte got top marks.

Museum visit with Hamish and Ryan

Mike spies the background

And blows a kiss

This guy always fascinated me

Museum iced latte was top notch

Mummies

Whale

Look at the fin bones!

Casts showing human evolution

We went out shopping for a few things. And I took the boys to Vogel St kitchen. they loved it there!

Checking out food at Vogel St Kitchen

Good coffee

Old mills

We put petrol in the wee white car and I took a photo of the old Roslyn woollen mills. Now a self storage place.

Run to Roslyn

Easter Egg rolling

Copper iced latte

Easter Egg rolling on Sunday in the park down the road. And bumped into Sheila Williams on our walk back. Good to see she is keeping well.

Action shot

Hello Mrs Williams!

Monday Toby wanted to explore gold fields. So we borrowed the Jazz and drove to Golden Progress Mine to poke around there. So good. There is a restored miner's cottage and a huge poppet head over the 45m deep mine shaft.

Exploring central

Golden Progress mine

The poppet head

Riveting stuff - old boiler

Scenery

Hawthorn. No reflection on AFL support

Oturehua cafe and pub

Went to see where the Brass Monkey Rally is held and then popped in for a lovely lunch. Cheese rolls for me. Mmmmm.

Looking back at the pub from the store

Off to Nenthorn

Wedderburn

Nenthorn - the old hotel

Wooden sill still good

Would have been bleak in winter

Good view from up here

Weather came good

Little building

Not sure what it is

From lunch we headed to Nenthorn. I had never been there. It was great fun. Gravel road. We poked around at Nenthorn Conservation area. Not much there. An old hotel. That is about it. One other small building. No signs.

Then 40km from there to SH1 across excellent gravel roads with stunning views. There is a DoC campsite too not too far up from SH1. Remember that!

Back home to cook tea and then an early bed.

Up at 4.30am. Uber to the airport for our early flights to our respective homes.

And at work now.

Great weekend. Thank you.

Love,

Angela