The Bush Telegraph is in tip-top condition

I really do live in an awesome community.  The outpouring of love and concern for Carol and Pete over the loss of Sebastian has been beautiful! Who would have thought that a hound could become so much a part of so many people’s lives ... but he did.  Pete (Village Co-op Pete,  not Carol’s Pete .... gosh - why do they HAVE to have the same names!!) put it quite succinctly when he gave Carol a hug this morning.  He said that Sebastian, as with all the other hounds that make the Village Co-op their home, was one of the family. We’re all part of that big family and we all share in the loss that Pete and Carol are dealing with.

The viewing platform ... and it's SO dark still!

He reduced Carol to tears ... but that’s ok .... crying is the body’s way of grieving and healing.  The girls at the co-op gave Carol flowers and a card yesterday and several of our fellow Humans with Hounds have given her cards too.  


The Bush Telegraph is in tip-top condition -

Lance (the foreman at the building site) came across to offer Carol his condolences too ... as did Max and his human ... and Christine and Jet. More tears from Carol but very necessary ones.


Our weather has been grim the last few days - rambling with the hound has been a wet and cold affair, but Carol has joined me both days and I’m thrilled that she has. She needs to visit all of Sebastian’s favourite spots and witness the love that so many people had for her exceptional hound.


Photo opportunities have been few and far between .... the rain gods are conspiring against me.  Just as I take the plastic bag off the camera, the heavens will open, put

the bag back on and the rain eases. I’m quite obviously only meant to view my world through a rain-splattered lens at the moment.


It’s difficult ENOUGH trying to capture my world waking without the rain’s intervention, there is NO natural light around at 6.30am, only street lights, car lights and the occasional flashing light of a bicycle. The hound looks like some deathly reincarnation -  maybe The Grim that lives downstairs (a term only understood by HP afficionados) - as her eyes are aglow with a deathly white light!!

Daylight saving officially ends on Sunday 1st April.... I can’t wait ... and nor can Julia!  Not only will it bring our sunrise forward to 6.30 but it’s also the end of Summer restrictions on the beach. Our hounds and their buddies can delight in the freedom of being off-leash on the sand until 10 in the morning!! The beaches

will definitely be busier!


The longer I live in this little village, the more I realise just how special a place it is. This village is more than just the buildings and the views and it’s position at the end of Tamaki Drive ... this village is about the

people and the special relationships they have with one another.  It’s not about the age and the character of the buildings, it’s not about the inappropriateness or otherwise of the new modern construction, this village is about the human souls that inhabit it .... they give it its heart!