Lots and lots and lots of new photos

Check em out: http://www.flickr.com/photos/oddballproductions/

I'll catch up with pictures of my road trip with dad very soon.

Solstice

Even though I have experienced Shortest Days every year of my life, it still doesn't get any easier. Getting up in the dark, coming home in the dark. Here in New Zealand's North Island it's nowhere near as bad as the 4 hours of meagre daylight we get in Scotland but it still sucks.

At least it only gets better from here.

When two becomes three

A couple of months ago, Maverick Shitbag Histen joined the Odds-Histen household. He is a gorgeous, cheeky black and white cat with a bushy tail that he's clearly stolen from a much larger feline. Since moving to National Park from Taupo SPCA, he has got stuck up a tree and been rescued by the fire brigade, invited a friendly kitten into the house for a party, adopted several 'back-up' homes and discovered that the best toy in the world is a couple of bottle tops on a bit of wool.

He is an absolute joy, a total 'little dude' as Bex so aptly puts it. He's not been with us that long, but already we're completely besotted with him and would be devestated if we lost him.