Brigitte’s autumn hideaway

Yesterday we drove over the Pass to visit Mitre 10 Mega again. This time not to bring back a broken tool, but to buy a shredder

The kids had fun at the beautiful indoor playground.

Aileen gave a performance of an Irish step dance (she is fascinated of the DVD ‘Lord of the dance’ with Mikel Flatley)

After that everyone enjoyed something sweet from the Mitre 10 Cafe

Christoph found some goodies for the future…

He couldn’t resist to buy some plants… this time he bought three different Feijoa’s

The flower looks amazing! I am excited to see another exotic plant in our garden.

At home the boys build their ‘machine’…

… and everyone watched excited (but in a save distance) when Daddy started to ‘feed’ the shredder.

When he started to feed big sticks…

… it got really loud.

And yeah, the shredder is still working

It was fun to see the whole family work together
This was better then roasting chestnuts or doing something inside. Here we had the clean New Zealand air and a lot of fun with the ‘machine’ who did a fascinating job

Some of the shredded stuff went around my berry shrubs and some is for the raised bed, which still is in production.

We have been very surprised to find an awesome plant under all the twigs.

This plant survived maybe years under this pile of twigs and other stuff.

We were happy to have a plant for the empty space in the front of our house (I already made fuchsia cuttings, but they will need some time…)

After we planted this amazing flower I went on searching and found out it is a Renga-Renga (Arthropodium cirrhatum)
Maori used to cook the fleshy root as food.