Lambs and daffodils are two sure signs that spring has arrived, and residents at Kaitaia's rest home were visited by both in one woolly bundle on Tuesday morning.
Lorraine Ryan and her sons Caleb and Jahn arrived with the special visitor, a lamb by the name of Daffodil, fresh from her morning bath and resplendent in a freshly laundered nappie. She even had her own morning tea, in a bottle.
Daffodil's life might not have got off to an especially auspicious start, Lorraine said, but things had looked up considerably since she became an orphan. She had made the move from the Takahue farm of Lorraine's parents (Stan and Audrey Buckingham), and was now very much domesticated.
She was a star at Pompallier School and Anne West Kindergarten, accompanying Caleb and Jahn on their morning 'drop-offs', but it was just about time to vacate the house for accommodation outdoors.
"She's getting too big to have inside the house, and she's started nibbling everything," Lorraine said.
