Spring really has sprung. You can always tell because the alpacas at Cornerstone Alpaca Stud take their first dip for the year.  Look at these bathing beauties!     Futher proof is this glorious pic from Garden Graphix – the spectacular Magnolia Iolanthe.   And students at Orini Combined School are getting stuck into the

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…in which N8N shares some highlights from around these parts.  Just look at this absolute stunner of a photo from Garden Graphix’s Anthony Skinner, taken from his studio.  We think these are mammatus clouds.  Could be.   Here’s The Mandarin’s Tree’s Claudia Aalderink out and about, on her way to or in Wellington for the long weekend.

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