Working Hard or hardly Working?

Well at last, I am a lady in uniform and I can feel like a real local in my Pareu (flowery) shirt, my CI News work shirt having been altered now fits perfectly. How I chuckled and dished out many Magnum PI quips when we first arrived and Chris was presented with a Hawaiian style shirt for a work shirt... I should have known karma would give to back to me. The bonus with my shirt is it's also handy camouflage should I ever require it, see below.

Picture 1: All Unformed up and working studiously at my CI News desk (can you see my feet tucked under the desk - I'm wearing jandals. And sometimes, sometimes I even kick off the J's and go barefoot. Ahhh the good life) Picture 2: Where am I? Where am I? Work shirt / Camo gear.

Spoke too Soon

The air con at work conked out again. Poot!

Winter on its Way?

Currently it's 9.42pm at night and we are sitting on a mild 25.6 degrees with 77 percent humidity.

Today was the lowest recorded temperature since records began - which was last week when we brought back a shiny new thermometer from our recent NZ trip - a chilly 24.7 degrees, with the high not going over 27 degrees.

Most of last week the temperature hovered around 30 degrees during the day, with our hottest day reaching 31.2 degrees. Oh & did I tell you the air-con broke down at work last week? Thank goodness it was fixed promptly.

Oh, & I have worked out that Cat Hot is roughly 30 degrees.

Tonight's Sunset

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Frangipani

My favourite flower on the island - the Frangipani. I didn't know until I came here the frangipani is a flowering tree (you know, like magnolias). I walk past these ones in the evening on my way to volunteer at the the Cook Islands Library.

Meet the Crew

The new uniforms at work have been delivered. Here is a photo of the CI news team in their lovely new shirts. Mine didn't fit :( but it's being fixed.

Near Miss

We have just come back to Rarotonga after a 2 week holiday in Dunedin on Saturday. Chris and I realised something odd had happened while we were away when we drove past the Met station on the Sunday and saw a few trees shredded and a large piece of roofing iron impaled into the above branches. We thought WTF?

The mystery was solved when we watched the local news. While we were flying home to Raro the weather was leaving its small but dramatic mark on the landscape and lives of several Raro families. A very localised storm, possibly a twister, struck the island (next to the Meteorological centre- ha!) and proceeded inland and ripped the roofs off three homes in a ten minute blast.
Fortunately no one was hurt.

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