Life is supposed to be interesting, supposed to be exciting, an adventure but usually it is always pretty good but gets generally into a comfortable groove. Then the world changes, it changes everything and makes you think, mostly about what’s important. Your family , your health and your wealth and you find your focus changes, and or its changed for you. Sometimes things are outside your control ( well almost) . I had owed what I considered the perfect dog many years ago, a beautiful Lab/shorthaired pointer. After Nina, owning a dog wasn’t on the radar. Taking on a dog is having a co-dependent that you have to give all your time to, love them as much as they will love you. For me there was always too much else going on. After Covit lockdown I came across a lovely 6 month old pup who just fitted with my sense of what a dog should be, intelligent and damn attractive. It ended up that the owners couldn’t keep it which was a pretty tough decision for them, and I couldn’t stop thinking about her. She is now part of the Dainty family.

Life has changed, I’m not as free anymore to disappear for the weekends on my motorcycle, or photographic trips but life is enriched and New Zealand is in a new normal, so am I.

There is still photography and motorcycling but how its all going to be fitted in will be the new challenge, maybe a sidecar?