Update from Aidee and Talor
31 December 2021Kia ora tātou,
As the year comes to an end, we wanted to send you mucho gratitude for your support this year. We hope you are reading this from the beach or some relaxing location as it really has been a very crappy year. As well as the lockdowns and flood and loss of our work, there has been a lot of death on Talor's side of the family which has been very sad indeed.
Unfortunately and frustratingly, we have very little to update you all on the house. We still have no idea whether we are dealing with a total rebuild or whether we can save part of the house; worst case scenario would be we can't build at all. The council has been as MIA as you can get and the house remains red carded and inaccessible as our belongings rot in the garage, yet the fallen trees are growing beautiful leaves inside it - it's all very strange down there. The sleepout and trampoline still lie 50 metres from where they used to stand and we are eager to start clearing all the fallen trees. Although we know very little, the geotech engineers did indicate that we will have to re-divert the stream to where mother nature wants her to go. We think there is little chance the lake will be restored to how it was so we will just have to get creative when the time comes.
Thank you so much again for all your donations and kind words or acts of support. My sister and brother in law gifted us their car, many people lent a hand early on and cooked us food; friends Masako and Kate and Anna all helped with accomodation. We have moved three times since the flood and luckily our daughter is unbelievably resilient and has just gone along with the flow, always referring to our house as the 'broken house that we are gonna fix'. But a huge thanks to you all and I know a lot of you are keen to help when we do a working bee - but that may still be a while off - hopefully February/March.
If you are on Instagram, we will do more updates at @parekuradreamlands if you are at all interested in the (slow) progress.
Wishing you a much more straightforward (but still fun) 2022 and again we feel so lucky to have so many amazing friends, acquaintances and complete strangers who came to our rescue.
THANK YOU X
Aidee, Talor and Awa xx
