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Wheelchairs
Posted on September 29, 2015 Leave a Comment
Plain and simple, I shouldn’t have done it! But I did and now it was biting me in the butt…literally 😦 Visits to the best chiropractor around had helped but it still wasn’t playing ball enough to allow me to get home. He had been suggesting it each day and i had been pushing the […]
The Calling Card
Posted on July 1, 2015 Leave a Comment
Coming to, I was greeted with the sound of gentle dove coos. Laying there with eyes still closed just listening and drinking in the moment. I love doves. My dad built me an aviary when I was a girl and I had four white turtle doves. The bobbing and cooing are all tied up in […]
Smelling Divine!
Posted on June 30, 2015 Leave a Comment
I don’t think too often about God’s ability to smell. Do you? But he must… Otherwise why do we have references to being a ‘soothing aroma’ to him? Or a ‘stench in his nostrils’? Some even say they have physically smelt the presence of God. I can’t claim that, but as I walked into the […]
The Blessing of Boots
Posted on June 25, 2015 Leave a Comment
On wet winter days I would come home with feet soaked and cold from walks with the dog.She didn’t seem fazed but I wasn’t finding it too exciting. My darling dearest woke up one Saturday morning and announced that we were going shopping for a new pair of tramping boots (hiking for those of other more demure […]
She Had it Covered
Posted on June 22, 2015 Leave a Comment
That daughter, she’s got a gift! An eye for design with the ability to perform on a very tight budget…’large family’ training coming to the fore right there 🙂 I tend to arrange what we have, rather than knowing how to make what we have better. So when she gave some ideas for making our […]
Do you Enjoy the Weather?
Posted on June 2, 2015 Leave a Comment
What’s your favourite kind of weather? Are you a fun-n-the-sun kind of person, or a brave the elements and walk the blowing-a-gale kind? The beauty of the tropics is waking up every morning knowing that a gorgeous day of cerulean blue skies and gentle breezes is your daily fare…unless it’s the wet season and you are […]
A Little Bit of Envy
Posted on May 28, 2015 Leave a Comment
Yes, I admit it. Aunty Shelagh’s plant was causing me a little bit of envy. Each time I visited, there it sat in the dappled light flowering profusely. Lovely purple tubular flowers popping out on long stems. And it just looked just gorgeous in the Mediterranean styled pot she had it sitting in.. No, Lynda! […]
Nepal and Sir Edmund Hillary
Posted on May 20, 2015 Leave a Comment
Nepal is suffering the effects of two major earthquakes in quick succession with multiple large aftershocks. We feel for the Nepalese…the Christchurch earthquakes of 2011 are still with us here in New Zealand as a poignant reminder of how devastating these can be. Our friend, Jeff Keily, from Sunshine Coast, Queensland, has recently taken many […]
Magic Mushrooms
Posted on May 5, 2015 Leave a Comment
Doing our normal route we had walked past the wide-spread tree every day admiring it’s changes in colour, first golden now fire red. But today was pouring…umbrella up and jacket pulled close. In order to miss the slippery track we circumvented said tree from the opposite side. What a treat waiting for us! A patch […]
Out of my Comfort Zone
Posted on April 14, 2015 1 Comment
I knew she would love it. Domain park in Auckland city. Grand old trees, columned buildings, bit of family history with the site for Nanna & Poppa’s wedding photos at the Wintergardens. Harbour views and out to Rangitoto Island. Large open green lawns She liked it. But when she saw the bandstand with it’s canopy […]
Lynda Symons Artistry 