Lambs! Chickens Spring flowers! Fun activities!
Top tip here for school holiday fun - down on the farm day at Cobblestones Saturday 3 October Ride the Fire Engine from the Town Hall or stroll down to Cobblestones at 169 Main Street, Greytown. Meet lambs and chickens as well as experience some of the ways our early settlers’ celebrated spring. See washer women showing you how our pioneers washed their clothes, try your hand at old fashioned crafts and games. See spinners in the woolshed and make a mini sheep with some of the wool. Try your hand at milking
the model cow. To help celebrate spring there will be a display of beautiful locally grown flowers from Van der Put Flowers of Greytown with gorgeous Victorian posies and other flowers to buy.
Spot the early settlers walking around in costume.
Cobblestones’ famous Devonshire teas (and coffees) will be available as well as BBQ sausages and other goodies. . A great day out to keep everyone enjoying school holidays. Entry is by donation s. Open from 10am until 4pm with the activities from 11am until 3pm
What word sums up 2024, neighbours?
If 2020 was the year of lockdowns, banana bread, and WFH (work from home)....
In one word, how would you define 2024?
We're excited to see what you come up with!
Poll: Would you rather: Christmas in summer forever or winter forever?
Just a bit of a fun poll to get you thinking.
If you had to live out your Christmas days, would you prefer it was a summer Christmas or a winter Christmas?
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62.8% Summer
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35.8% Winter
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1.4% Other - I'll share below
⚠️ DOGS DIE IN HOT CARS. If you love them, don't leave them. ⚠️
It's a message we share time and time again, and this year, we're calling on you to help us spread that message further.
Did you know that calls to SPCA about dogs left inside hot cars made up a whopping 11% of all welfare calls last summer? This is a completely preventable issue, and one which is causing hundreds of dogs (often loved pets) to suffer.
Here are some quick facts to share with the dog owners in your life:
👉 The temperature inside a car can heat to over 50°C in less than 15 minutes.
👉 Parking in the shade and cracking windows does little to help on a warm day. Dogs rely on panting to keep cool, which they can't do in a hot car.
👉 This puts dogs at a high risk of heatstroke - a serious condition for dogs, with a mortality rate between 39%-50%.
👉 It is an offence under the Animal Welfare Act to leave a dog in a hot vehicle if they are showing signs of heat stress. You can be fined, and prosecuted.
SPCA has created downloadable resources to help you spread the message even further. Posters, a flyer, and a social media tile can be downloaded from our website here: www.spca.nz...
We encourage you to use these - and ask your local businesses to display the posters if they can. Flyers can be kept in your car and handed out as needed.
This is a community problem, and one we cannot solve alone. Help us to prevent more tragedies this summer by sharing this post.
On behalf of the animals - thank you ❤️
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