Category: Travel

• Netball: The other New Zealand Sport.

  Now if you thought rugby was popular. Check out netball. If you go to New Zealand in the winter you will pass girls playing netball often. So Focus. I need to say right now that I know almost as much about netball as I do about rugby.  So don’t go yelling at me. I did…

  Cecilia Mary Gunther

  October 29, 2011

  Travel, Writing

  boys, mean girls, netball, new zealand, Silver Ferns, women’s basketball

• New Zealand Week: watching the rugby from the prairies!

  As you know we do not have cable TV. But because the rugby world cup had low ratings in the States, it was being shown on the free TV channels out here on the prairies. So we got to see a bit of it. John decided to take an interest. What is that dance thing?…

  Cecilia Mary Gunther

  October 25, 2011

  Humour, Route 66, Travel

  goals, new zealand, prairies, refs, rugby, rules

• New Zealand Week: Fish ‘n’ Chips In honour of the rugby WIN.

  OK It is possible that in the far away or near future, you may take it upon yourself to go to New Zealand to visit. Mainly because we have the best rugby team in the WORLD!  In that case you are going to need to know some things to  avoid doing embarrassing stuff. First you…

  Cecilia Mary Gunther

  October 24, 2011

  Humour, Travel

  Barbies, fish and chips, new zealand, Sausage sizzle, travel

• Salmon and Shrimp Chowder because I can’t go Fishing on the Prairie.

  I have a friend, who lives by himself in a beach house on stilts, up the East Coast,  in Hawke’s Bay, New Zealand.  It is a beautiful bay, deserted for most of the year. He is on the beach every day . Surfing mostly. Or looking for surf. When he goes away to work he…

  Cecilia Mary Gunther

  October 2, 2011

  Life, Living the life, Meals, Recipes, Travel

  chowder, crayfish, fishing, gathering, salmon, shell fish, shrimps, surfing

• The Table, the Cat and Kids with Balls

  We have leapt a generation in this piece. But you know how sometimes a story will get stuck in the front of your brain and revolve around in there until it is down-loaded to clear the way for another. This is a persistent memory, but only of a moment really. So I have taken you…

  Cecilia Mary Gunther

  September 28, 2011

  Living the life, Stories, Travel

  balls, Divorce, kids, Oak Table, potatoes