Tag: failure

• Life as a Wall

  

  A climbing wall. As you can see from the lead image even children can climb this wall. Little tiny children. Yesterday my daughter suggested going to a climbing wall in Lower Hutt, Wellington, New Zealand. She said: Give it a try. I said: I am too tired. She said: But you must. I said: I have no shoes. She…

  Cecilia Mary Gunther

  October 21, 2014

  Photography, Travel

  failure, new zealand, rock climbing, success, travel in new zealand, wellington

• Pneumonia takes Piglet.

  One of the piglets has died. The little one. He had pneumonia. Pigs show no signs of pneumonia until they are far advanced. No coughing or runny nose. Not even a hot nose actually. Just a creeping lethargy I suppose. Lack of appetite and then eventually no appetite at all. I noticed the night before…

  Cecilia Mary Gunther

  August 10, 2013

  Farming, homesteading, Life

  dealing with failure, failure, farming, pneumonia in piglets, swine parasites

• Human Error Kills Bees

  Yesterday afternoon I spent some time researching the bees problem. Trying to work out how my two hives died over this winter. I checked all the links you sent me (thank you) and these links took me to other links, I made notes and collated information and a miserable picture has appeared. After playing colour…

  Cecilia Mary Gunther

  February 4, 2013

  Bees, Farming, Life, Photography

  bees, bees dying in the winter weather, dead hives, dealing with failure, failure

• ‘Success is the ability to go from one failure..

  … to another failure, with no loss of enthusiasm’. Winston Churchill.  I love that one, it describes us all so perfectly.  It certainly describes this cheese as it proceeds with its  metamorphosis from cheddar to puddle. Ah well. Churchill also said something about ‘success not being final and failure not being fatal.’   But that…

  Cecilia Mary Gunther

  August 27, 2012

  Life, Photography, Sustainable farming

  cheese, date loaf, failure, farm animals, life, rain, Small house