Sunshine and Whimsy

Ok - so I go to NZ to visit my son and daughter-in-law, all is calm when I leave, although the weather had been hot, hot, hot.  The cooler air of Queenstown was very, very welcome. Unfortunately while I was away, a very unpleasant visitor came to holiday along my homeland's coastline . . . Ray's "it's a bit windy here" might have been a slight under-exaggeration (is that a word?).

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The time has come the walrus said to talk of many things... Of shoes and ships and ceiling wax, of cabbages and kings. And why the sea is boiling hot, and whether pigs have wings. Oh those poor, dear oysters :( Do you know this poem - The Walrus and the Carpenter?   From Lewis Carroll's Through the Looking-Glass and What Alice Found There , 1872 - such an amazing author, one very imaginative mind.   http://ebooks.adelaide.edu.au/c/carroll/lewis/looking/chapter4.html