Well, we have now moved into our new house. We moved last
Friday, mostly dodging the heavy showers that have been
marauding around the country for the last week. We are slowly
unpacking – the place is looking a lot tidier now than it did at
the weekend, but it will take a while to find a home for every
object we own. Mizuna the cat has taken a little bit of
convincing about the move – but he has now emerged from under a
bed and seems more at home and is very happy that our ex-
neighbour’s cat is no longer is around to bother him. It’s a
two-storey house, so slightly unusual for New Zealand, but one
part of it is just one-storey with a very high ceiling. The
layout makes for an excellent demonstration of the fact that hot
air rises. (N.B. It’s hot air that rises, not heat, as is often
mistakenly said.) With the log fire up and going on the ground
floor, the area on the first floor above it gets really nice and
toasty, whereas the ground floor itself is not so warm. The warm
air has risen, has been trapped by th