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Blog Time. Said with a slight sigh. Another Long Blog Post is coming.

Ok, so Friday night we headed down to Catherine's again after two days back at the farm, she asked if we could cme back and help her with a market on saturday. Her daughter was in the city doing one market, and we were at Hillary's Boat Harbour doing another, a full day market. We ended at around 9pm.
The reason the market stayed open so late was that the harbour was celebrating summer, it did so with a 'DJ' on a Jetty and some spectacular fireworks. We didn't do too badly at the market either and made a few sales after the fireworks, I knew they wanted the Oil and the Olives even if they didn't.

We spent the day trading next to a Swedish ex-pat who was selling some Swedish Chocolate Balls. She came and saw us earlier in the day to see our set up and rewarded us with one of her produce. It was Amazing!! A chocolate, buttery, Oaty ball coated in hard sugar. A secret family recipe but the balls are known all around Sweden. And now known to us. She is doing a great thing to the world!

So Sunday, we woke up and headed off to this church we'd heard about. Darryll's wife Donna's sister was a worship leader there, so we thought we'd give it a go. We were given the most amazing greeting and hounded (in a good way) by lots of people. I think we'd been spotted as newcomers as we had one guy come up and say are you the people from Canada? hehe. It wasn't quite Hillsong though they did play some of their music, but it was a good experience. The size was better than Hillsong, you feel as though your a newcomer every time at Hillsong, whereas I can see you being welcomed as a regular after your first visit. The pastor took some time out to speak to us after the service and we had a great conversation about nothing. Cassie Davis who is a newcoming singer from Australia is the Pastors daughter.

We headed back to Catherine's house and hadn't realised that her daughters had set the alarm as they left with their grandparents earlier. So we let ourselves in and stood back as the piercing alarm stunned us both. It was very embarassing and we called Catherine to figure out what to do. She gave us the code and we dissarmed the alarm. It's definately funny now.
So we headed to the beach in the afternoon before church and played in the bathwarm water. It was really windy and the waves were pretty big, we played here for about an hour and headed straight to church. After the service a guy called Isaak came and spoke to me saying he was moving to Scotland to be with a girl he'd met while on holiday earlier in the year. He had a very interesting story and invited us both out for some Noodles at the Boat harbour where we'd done the market the day before. We had a great night talking with him and some of his friends, enjoyed some good noodles and good company, a really nice night.

So monday we headed back early to be here for work. I jumped on the little tractor and finished my mowing i'd started on friday, Holly headed into the Mango plantation and continued the pruning after mourning the loss of the grey cup. (Canadian Football for the British Followers) It was an average day on the farm untill Holly found a snake near the roses, she was weeding there and it was slithering towards her. Darryll caught it and we got some photos. Even he didn't know what kind of snake it was, though he thought it was a baby Dugart. A poisonous snake, we tried looking for fangs but it's mouth was too small. Don't worry parents we were unharmed.

We headed off with Darryll to herd his cows and move them to another of his leased land blocks. It was great fun herding them, they are such placid animals and will always go for an open gate. Too easy. We loaded them onto the trailer and carted them to their new home. In the 5 minute journey they'd managed to poo all over the trailer, even above head height. Of course I was amazed.
Daryll told us to head to his house and Donna would fix us up with something to drink and some food. We had a really fun night and really enjoyed their company. Darryll tried to teach Holly to say his name properly which was entertaining. We stayed the night and spent all day today (Tuesday) doing some trimming of climbing plants, moving some grinded limestone to their pathway and stomping it down. After lunch we loaded the farms Semi trailer (Lorry) with some junk from their garage, a sofa, an old cooker, a dresser and heaps of carpets etc...I then drove it to Lancelin's Rubbish tip, we opened both sides of the truck and heaved all the insides out leaving a nice gap where the truck was standing.

So....I think that's it. There is more detail but you've probably already run out of time. We'll keep busy and make sure we have more interesting news to Blog about.

Uru :)

David & Holly