Erika helps out by volunteering at the Howick Historical Village on the third Sunday of each month. She enjoys it but hates the loud musket fire that the soldiers re-enactment of skirmishes creates. She and I were invited to help film as part of a Japanese series on places to see in NZ. The Japanese film crew loved her and I got a couple of pictures of her dressed up for them to share...
We admired the flowers in front of Puhinui house.
To be truely in 'period' 1850s costume she should have been wearing a sun bonnet, but this was much cooler and looked cute too.
Puhinui House is a beautiful old homestead which was brought into the village in 5 separate pieces from Clendon - made of pit sawn kauri logs which were floated up the river almost to the site that the house was on before it moved to the historical village. It housed the McLaughlan family who were the first to bring organised hunting to Auckland.
Erika thought she was a little stronger than she really is :)
Erika is washing the clothes in a copper, they way they would have boiled their clothes clean in the 1850s.
Fortunately we didnt have a fire under the copper or she would no longer have toes. It wasnt something that the little children helped with. They were more likely to pump the water for mum to fill the copper with.
It was very fun - and she might be famous in Japan!
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