Thank goodness it's all over...now the fun begins!

Western Springs-Auckland City
The garden progress......spuds and tomatoes

Here are some of the beans with yet more tomatoes and some coriander and parsely.

In case you had not noticed, I have installed a site counter on this page.  This is because I was wondering if I had any visitors at all!

It is made by a firm called Statcounter, which is free to use and I have been using it on my other Autocad blog, where it seems to be working OK.  It works by somehow linking to their site, all I did was go to my Layout page and choose "Add a Gadget", then cut and paste the code they provided into the window.

Went tramping last weekend and  wore a hat which prevented me from seeing the tree branch coming, so ended up with a scraped head.  Further disasters awaited in the form of three lady trampers who I thought had gone up another track so I thought it was safe for me to go skinny dipping in the nice bush pool....but no, they came back!  Luckily for me and them the water was not that clear and they were not that close.  (Usual smart remark from friends who came with me was " It's alright, they would'nt see much" were of no help-they said the water was too cold for that sort of thing.)

So now we have a nice shiny new government.  Time will tell, but seeing how the DOW is going, I might just get the spade out  tomorrow and dig up even more of my lawn and plant some silverbeet and any other winter veg that can be planted.

Time to Make Your Mind Up, Swinging Voters!

Well, I have made my mind up....I did have some money in Hanover Finance, which, while it has not officially gone, has disappeared in a moratorium on repayments. This has been a major part of swinging my vote: The purpose of a government (at least from a constituent's point of view), is to LOOK AFTER it's citizens. They have not done.

As far as preventing finance companies from falling over, the present Labour government has done spectacularly badly in my view.

That said, I would imagine National would have done just as badly.

In the last few weeks, I have witnessed an apparent desire on the part of National NOT to be the government---well at least they should have locked one of their members in a chicken coop for the duration of the election!

It is all a bit deja vu, Helen promised 9 years ago to cut government spending, now John Key looks like coming in saying the same thing.

I've now taken up gardening-seems like a skill that may be in demand in the coming year.