Category: Travel
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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…
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Will The Real Wellington Please Stand Up
No, not you little Basil, you can stay sitting down. Yesterday Wellington changed its mind and took the sun back in. Yesterday the other Wellington came out to play, the darker side. The windy side. Yesterday, undaunted, we braced the elements and walked around the bay to another cafe. Then we peered into the window…
The Kitchen's Garden 