Country Life for Friday 15 May 2009

9:05 PM.Brian Megaw runs River Valley Lodge near Taihape. Eighty-five percent of its visitors are from overseas. Audio

9:11 PM.The North Island was battered by cold, wet weather and in the South Island dairy farmers are drying off earlier that usual. Audio

9:18 PM.New Zealand school principal Sheree Alabaster is the current world champion wool handler. Audio

9:32 PM.Artist Sally Burton in her studio on the Waimea plains near Nelson on her latest body of work. Audio