Slice of Life: New Zealand Mountains

(InnerSelf Enabled🎭) Meet the Maori sheep farmers... Kotuku Downs sits at the very end of the gravel road in New Zealand's high country: five thousand ewes, a woolshed older than anyone's grandmother, mountains on three sides and a lake the colour of a swimming pool. You've signed on for one season, lambing to the January muster. The head shepherd has six dogs and no patience. The owners' daughter has just come home from Wellington and won't say why. The shearing gang arrives in December with a woman who wants a world record. The nearest pub is forty minutes away and everyone in it already knows your business. Spring snow, newborn lambs in the back of the ute, dog trials, the A&P show, a woolshed Christmas and a long summer evening on the lake. Work hard, make friends, fall for somebody, or just find out what kind of person you are at five in the morning in a southerly. A warm, funny, high-country slice of life with a big cast, real seasons and plenty of room to belong.