Winter. Really?

1 June 2011

It's a sparkling start to winter, here in Whitianga. A pretty day, heading for a high of 18C. Doesn't feel like winter at all to a couple of Wellingtonians.

We're reaching the end of the kiwifruit packing season, with just a week or so to go. It's been a fairly tiring and somewhat unblogworthy month. On the whole we've worked six days a week, mostly on the 1pm to 11pm shift.

So basically, we sleep in (not something I'm very good at, although Craig is rather an expert), spend the rest of the morning mooching around drinking cups of tea and cooking food to take to work, drive 20 minutes to work, work for 10 hours, drive home, sit up long enough to be able to sleep, sleep, start the cycle again. We're not really as dull as that sounds, but not far off!

The work itself is repetitive and a bit physical. It's easy enough to cope with once you get your head around the tedium, and Craig and I tend to get moved around several tasks during the shift so at least we get some variety. And at the end of the shift - we just walk out and forget all about it. No finishing of reports when we get home, no fretting about what tomorrow will bring, no catching up on emails you couldn't get to; just switch off.

And our favourite answer if someone asks our opinion on a decision? "We're on minimum wage - you have to pay more if you want us to think."



Mercury Bay Holiday Park - such a pretty place to stay.

   

We love theses goalposts. Who needs perfectly straight
poles when you can just hack the branches off a couple
of trees?



It must be winter - all the action at the marina involves
fishing boats getting hauled out for a clean-up.

  

Such a pretty, sparkling day to start winter.

 

These things never look like they should stay in the air!