Author: Cecilia Mary Gunther
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Bye Bye, Bach. Bye Bye, Beach.
Bye Bye beautiful Bach. Bye Bye beautiful Beach. My Mahunga. Remember to take one last look so we can come back again. Tomorrow I leave very early to drive back to Napier to catch a plane to Auckland. We are on the last leg of our journey. So I have posted this last look at the…
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Home, my other home
To get to my favourite beach on earth we must first take a tiny peek of my favourite view where I grew up. Napier. New Zealand. The fishing boats. I rode past these boats on the way to school… every day for years. The beach where I grew up was too glary for a good…
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My Sister has a Farmy
Yesterday I said my last gulping goodbye when Senior Son dropped me off at the airport, with my lightened luggage, to collect my little zip zip rental car. Wellington is very easy to drive out of especially from the airport and even in the misty rain and low cloud. My little zip zip car and…
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Icecream and a Beach on the Eve of the first Goodbye.
As I write my beautiful daughter is in the air flying back to Melbourne. The joys of arrivals are heightened by the knowledge of departures. Good and Bye. I thought about the presents my children gave me for my birthday this year. One son gave me Gumboots so my feet would stay warm and dry…
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Cat as a Hat caught in a Driftnet
We had a bit of a driftnet gathering yesterday. (Our kind of Drift-netting means that you invite everyone you see over a period of time to arrive at different times of the day, slowly staggering them into the net. This way very diverse groups of people meet and mingle. Drifting in and out. Captured usually…
The Kitchen's Garden 