As I make a final check of electric fences and such before departing, my dear Bella pants along for the walk. A tui shouts out from the winter flowering gums and a fantail flutters around too. Long before I can find them in the sky I hear a skein of geese calling to each other as they approach. It's a big group and I watch as they circulate their position in the formation to share the workload and continue to call to each as they fly. The call is still heard when they are tiny dots a long way off and then, as before, heard but not seen. It seems appropriate and comforting when I am about to fly to the other side of the world.
Driving to Wellington I saw a lot of new lambs, a calf a few minutes old being licked clean and lots of patches of sunshine as well as the snow on the edges of the road on the hill. It's a great feeling to know that when I come back the world will have been made new.
Lovely too, to have the chance to see Luke & Frankie, Sophia & Ayden and Ben on my way through. Sorry I missed you Diana.
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