After spending Christmas back in Adelaide, we returned to NZ on New Years Day ready to start a big year of projects here at The Courthouse.
What a welcome we received arriving at midnight and driving through the night to Fairlie with the Southern lights (pictured below) putting on an incredible show, certainly a warm welcome back!
Once back in Fairlie we immediately started planning our projects for the year ahead. Updating The Courthouse kitchen and bathroom is our number one priority and we are hoping both are installed before another cold winter sets in.
Our POD arrived, this has been 9 months in the making, working closely with Lowburn Sawmill in North Canterbury. It is a one bedroom, kitchenette and bathroom, perfect for extra guests and the perfect addition to any Courthouse is a holding cell. There used to be one in the backyard that is now sitting in the Fairlie museum. Quite the undertaking getting it into our back yard as you can see!
Hiking. We have some hikes that we want to tick off our lists this year and it was good to get back to my regular “hill buddies’ Thursday hikes. Kicking off with a tramp through Blue Mountain Station, views for days and days!
Snow in January! It certainly hasn’t felt like summer here in Fairlie with the sun barely in full view, constant cloud, rain and fog has made it a January and so far February to remember. I never thought I’d wake up to fresh snow on the mountains at this time of the year!
Road trips. As always we like a road trip or two and our first one for the year was to Central Otago, in particular the highest public road in NZ, Nevis Road. This is something we have both wanted to do and it certainly didn’t disappoint.
Golf. My goal this year is to play golf more regularly and consistently. If you had told me I’d win the Fairlie season women’s Opening Day I never would have believed it but I did! Everything seemed to go right, for once! Now to practice, practice, practice!
Finally the little old Courthouse found itself on the front page of ‘The Fairlie Accessible’ a fortnightly read that is dropped in letterboxes around the town. It was lovely to be interviewed, what I am most excited about is that locals will now know who’s living here and how much we love their historic Courthouse.
Two months into 2025 and we have been busy and loving it!
Thanks for stopping by! I’ll see you in the next blog post.
~ Sarah x
After spending Christmas back in Adelaide, we returned to NZ on New Years Day ready to start a big year of projects here at The Courthouse.
What a welcome we received arriving at midnight and driving through the night to Fairlie with the Southern lights putting on an incredible show, certainly a warm welcome back!
Once back in Fairlie we immediately started planning our projects for the year ahead. Updating The Courthouse kitchen and bathroom is our number one priority and we are hoping both are installed before another cold winter sets in.
Our POD arrived, this has been 9 months in the making, working closely with Lowburn Sawmill in North Canterbury. It is a one bedroom, kitchenette and bathroom, perfect for extra guests and the perfect addition to any Courhouse is a holding cell. There used to be one in the backyard that is now sitting in the Fairlie museum. Quite the undertaking getting it into our back yard as you can see!
Hiking. We have some hikes that we want to tick off our lists this year and it was good to get back to my regular “hill buddies’ Thursday hikes. Kicking off with a tramp through Blue Mountain Station, views for days and days!
Snow in January! It certainly hasn’t felt like summer here in Fairlie with the sun barely in full view, constant cloud, rain and fog has made it a January and so far February to remember. I never thought id wake up to fresh snow on the mountains at this time of the year!
Road trips. As always we like a road trip or two and our first one for the year was to Central Otago, in particular the highest public road in NZ, Nevis Road. This is something we have both wanted to do and it certainly didn’t disappoint.
Golf. My goal this year is to play golf more regularly and consistently. If you had told me I’d win the Fairlie season women’s Opening Day I never would have believed it but I did! Everything seemed to go right, for once! Now to practice, practice, practice!
Finally the little old Courthouse found itself on the front page of ‘The Fairlie Accessible’ a fortnightly read that is dropped in letterboxes around the town. It was lovely to be interviewed, what I am most excited about is that locals will now know who’s living here and how much we love their historic Courthouse.
Two months into 2025 and we have been busy and loving it!
Thanks for stopping by! I’ll see you in the next blog post.
~ Sarah x