Ha! So along with quakes ( and yes Col , we've felt many now even if you have not) ; bush fires from droughts ; water shortages and boil notices -Landslips ; missing roading ; floods and slash , we now have the latest of tempests to have us sleep well in our beds at night. The multi , once in `100 years, only in NZ , tornadoes.

Monday was rather nasty here and a bit alarming. We didn't sustain damage but the area did and MrBEVS is out with Civil Defence again as I type.. Hen coop tried to go on the run but hens legged it under the house. Sensible girls that they are.

We were actually due to plant 10 trees as screening against the encroachment from next door's elevated, over looming, houses bang smack by our boundary. Actually got them in later in the day and staked for their lives thanks to a couple of pals up the way and a good bloke that does this stuff.

So that'll stuff up the price of toms , pip fruit and lamb I suppose , what with pestilence , hailstorms and now torn paddocks.

Happy Tuesday. . The sun is out. 🌞

Plague of frogs will be next 😂😂

I quite like frogs. The sound is relaxing. Not that I have ever seen or heard one here in NZ. They hides their eyes and let out a squeal when a cat befriends them enough to want to bring one into the house. Had that reguarly in the UK. My old Hol was always bringing in the frog that lived under the garden shed.

We had 8 fantails in the garage this morning. Not sure that counts as a plague .

It's just never bloody ending, with one thing after another; as if another tornado was not enough, we also had a plague of ants marching through our pantry at the weekend.

Believe it or not, the collective noun is a "war party of fantails" 😁

Well if you will insist on having a p ant ry!

These ones are persit ants they seem to turn up like a flash mob at the oddest times and places; I thought they had moved on but they came back 24 hours later to have another nosey around.

Typical. I'd best wear a hard hat.

Are these the super small ones. They appear from nowhere, wreak a bit of havoc and then disappear again for a while.

Some of our ant hordes seem to prefer the loo roll for some reason. It doesn't matter either if it is upstairs or down.

Yes, they are like ninjas, they just arrive out of thin air and then quickly scarper as soon as they realise they are fighting a losing battle with me and a wet cloth.

I spray 'em with ajax. I'm a meanie like that. It's them or the loo rolls.