This is the tenth entry from my draft manuscript, working title: Spring in the Cottage Garden. You can read the first instalment by tapping below:
The weather had been getting warmer and the spring flowers were well into their blooming season when we had a snow day! A āpolar blastā was how the meteorologists described it and it certainly felt like an apt description.
It started on Wednesday with snow falling from the sky during my work day, though it didnāt settle. The temperature was colder than it had been for several weeks and while the forecast had threatened more snow I was a bit dubious. Weād had a brief and pitiful attempt at snow earlier this year (which was still exciting for me, having lived thirty-odd years in subtropical TÄmaki Makaurau/Auckland) but to peek out the window and see that magical blanket of snow that is referred to so often in books and movies and on the front of Christmas cards was something else altogether.
Puketapu, the maunga(mountain) that overlooks our towā¦
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