Cancelled plans for today, looking after the GD, and waiting for the front that is causing havoc over the whole country to get here. It was supposed to get here late this morning, but it just hit at 4.00pm - thunder and lightning, slow moving and a big dump. It might be over pretty quickly.
Lots of tourists come to NZ for summer, but even though it is officially summer, hot dry weather is still 6 weeks away. You can't tell them to plan for later - surely if it's summer, you'll have summer weather ?