Staying at Alan and Greg's place

Such a fabulous time with Alan and Greg in their lovely home in Rolleston.

Greg (left), Alan (right). Greg is an NZer, Alan is English

Selfie clearly not taken by me because my arms are not long enough!

 

This is Bentley - an English Blue. About 13 kg ...

This is Emily. She is Bentley's full sister and much smaller. However she is still portly ...

 

Bentley and Emily are very well-travelled cats - they have come out from the UK when Greg and Alan moved to NZ, then they went back to the UK when the guys moved back to the UK for a period. And now they are happily ensconced in Rolleston.

The pellet fire - we are keen to investigate getting one of these for our lounge... It burns little pellets of wood that are purchased in 15kg bags. And the most exciting thing for the computer nerd is that it works on bluetooth and you can start it up from your phone from a long way away ...

See - bluetooth enabled! Yay!!

It is always lovely to meet new people and it is especially lovely to find people of similar thinking and shared values.

Chatting, eating, a couple of gins (but who was counting?), a lot of chat and a lot of laughs.

I made a cheese tart and a lettuce salad as part of dinner and lemon syrup cake for dessert. Greg made foccacia bread (yum!), new potatoes and lots of asparagus - cooked in Alan's favourite pot apparently: oblong with a trivet in it.

I wish we were going back before we leave the South Island because we need to meet their neighbours. It's going to have to wait for our next trip down - at least though, we will be able to bring down jet plane sweets from Moore Wilsons for Greg ...