You can never have enough...

[JanW]

The cauliflower crops were 99% wiped out - my favourite veggie - the frozen steam fresh cauli is OK if you smother it with cheese sauce .That cauli rice is a big seller along with the carrot and beetroot noodles - they are so expensive but they sell .Leader brand lost all their crops again in Gisborne they are the largest growers of broccoli and salad greens so veggies will have to be brought up from the South Island .Kumera crops have been wiped out - my grandmother used to grow them with seeming ease might give them a try - there used to be huge caterpillars amongst them am sure they had a horn on their head.Sweet Corn is another leader brand crop they grew for the frozen market that will need to be imported - Leader brand have an operation down south maybe they will have to shift down there
completely.
I am 18 and a half today nearly - I am a leap year baby - no birthday this year - used to hate it when I was a kid - my elder sister used to have me in tears when she looked at the calendar and saw I had no birthday - she was a terrible bully - never understood her but I do now she was bullied terribly at school by the teachers because she was left handed - we ended up in the same class when we were about 9 can still see her up at the blackboard being strapped for not being able to write with her right hand - awful
Lots of cats and dogs are turning up - amazing stories they would have to tell if they could talk .Mike King has arrived and set himself up with a lot of volunteers - there are a lot of children who are just bewildered - we were so lucky the Council put big pumps in the inner city after the 2020 flood