With a little place on Bank's Peninsula called Poranui Beach. It's a stoney beach and a tiny place 25km from the nearest grocery store. But it's fantastically, fantasically beautiful and the whole place just felt warm and safe and like crawling into a warm sleeping bag.
Sock is being very annoying. I can't work out what she wants but I fear that I have been rewarding whining - she sometimes sits by the door and cries so I let her out to the bathroom, but she has started crying for the window down in the car/bones/pieces-of-watevayoureatin. I shall have to re-educate her over the next few days. She learns fast, both good and bad habits.