MURPHY'S LAW

After living with the Murphy’s for few days we were happy to notice that this time our WWOOFing work would not consist solely on “girly” stuff. We were actually allowed and required to do some very small scale cow herding, heavy lifting and wood splitting.

One of Miia’s proudest moments was when we finished a new henhouse for the few chickens of the family. The other heart-warming though slightly exciting thing for our adorable “city Miia” was to actually go and collect eggs for our lunch from the current hen house.

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However, after these few exciting escapades Miia and myself got used to this comfy “country” life. Especially to the lovely, creamy milk in your afternoon coffee, in your morning muesli, in our host's self-made yoghurt or just in a glass with our lunch. The animals of the family followed our work on the paddocks and the garden relentlessly and Lotta could not but help to take few pictures of the creatures that by just spending their casual, animal lives made our days so much lovelier. Even the jobs done around the premises felt homey and after cleaning already clean toilets in Queenstown, all the work we did felt a bit more meaningful.

 

We did get a glimpse of Christchurch while we still had the car during our first week at the Murphy’s and the experience was both revealing and slightly depressing. As few of our friends probably noted from our social media posts (Facebook, Instagram and what not) neither of us had fully understood the gravity of the earthquake of 2011 which destroyed 2/3 of the city. We decided to take part to this 50minute tour around the red zone by Hasselfree tours to educate ourselves. The tour opened our eyes to the sheer magnitude of the consequences and made us realize that even though the quake claimed only 185 lives it will affect to the city’s population, infrastructure and economics for decades to come.

After the windy day in town we were happy drive home to our cozy little hut. We had noticed that the nights were getting colder and sure enough after few mornings of warm sunshine there was a slight frost on the lawn. As weird as it might sound it actually made us feel more at home.

But like all good things our time under the Murphy’s law came to end as we headed towards the capitol where we would stay for few days before travelling up to Hamilton and our next “home”.


With Love Miia & Lotta