Pukerua Bay
Perfect timing by Kate. She arrived home barely minutes before a heavy shower of rain.
Being busy
Together Tuesday drop in morning teas
Yuk. The rain is coming in sideways at the moment. Definitely a day to stay home unless it’s an emergency.
Busy weekend - soccer club breakup and community 'placemaking' under threat in Porirua
Is it too soon to say we probably won’t have a spring drought? Rain, rain and more rain.
Community newsletter for Pukerua Bay
If you’re interested in what we’re doing in our little community, check out our two-monthly community newsletter (edited by my clever wife).
The latest issue of Kōrero (kōrero is Māori for news or talking) is online.
Here you can find information about the PKB Hub’s Pop-up Parlor, the Climate Action spring series, and a link to Maringikura Mary Campbell’s Facebook page with her artwork.
Also, lots of informative articles. We hope you enjoy it.
Birds in the garden
It’s nice going out into the garden in the morning to fetch the paper and hear the tūī going for it in the trees. We have a growing number of them in Pukerua Bay.
Dedicated amateur pest controllers – i.e. residents with rat traps in their gardens – have made the village much safer for the birds. We also have lots of kererū (wood pigeons) that have come over from the wildlife reserve on Kāpiti Island. There are so many, they even have their own ‘Slow down’ road safety signs!
The rain is back! Just in time for Kate to go out to do some messages and go to the beauty parlour.
Another gloomy day here in Pukerua Bay, although the rain seems to have eased off. I think there is more forecast for later in the day. Remarkably, we are producing 615W of power from the roof from the light seeping through the clouds.
No solar power today
As expected today, with heavy cloud cover and rain, our solar power production and self-sufficiency is a big fat zero!
Rain, rain and more rain
We were talking to our dinner guest friends last night about how dry it has still been this winter.
No longer. Rain started about 10pm last night and hasn’t let up since. I woke up several times overnight to the sound of relentless rain. Fortunately, there has been no strong wind. Time to get those vege plants in the planter box. Maybe tomorrow.
City Council is reporting flooding in Whitby and Porirua East. Don’t go out unless you need to.
I guess we won’t get any solar power produced today.
Kate has just come back from a swim at the beach with her friend. She reports that it was “terrible” and she got knocked over several times. It’s fairly windy, which made the water choppy.
Interdenominational religion in action
I think our little intersection corner of Pukerua Bay must be the most religious in town. By 10am our neighbour had gone off to the spiritualist church her family goes to; the Methodist church immediately next door on the other side had the full Tongan congregation there (beautiful singing as always); and I was upstairs here doing some Buddhist prayers.
This is how religions should accommodate each other. Not every religion will work for everybody; when we find one that touches our hearts, we should be able to explore it.
