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Gardening of a Different Kind
Posted on April 26, 2022 Leave a Comment
“Make a list of the jobs you’d like some help with and I will give you four days over Easter to get as many as possible done”. What a gift! It wasn’t hard to think of them. If I can chip away at something and do it myself, I will, but there are some jobs […]
Joy Sparkles
Posted on April 19, 2022 2 Comments
It’s not been a week of great events. Nothing out of the ordinary has really happened. Yet, I’ve found so much joy in seemingly insignificant things. The warm sun on my hand while driving. Autumn leaves swirling in the wind. The quiet. In noticing it, I’ve begun to wonder if, when big events happen, our […]
‘To My Dear and Loving Husband’
Posted on April 12, 2022 Leave a Comment
This week I heard about a mid-seventeenth century poet called Ann Bradstreet. Ann lived in the new world (now the United States of America) and was the first, not just woman but person, to have a book of poems published there. In her book was a poem entitled ‘To my Dear and Loving Husband’. If […]
Horrified!
Posted on April 5, 2022 Leave a Comment
Yep, I was horrified when I looked back to see when my last blog post was. September 2021! Eeekkk! 6 months! Scary to see how much time has flown by. Our world has been in a state of flux for some of that time with two kids coming home unexpectedly for a while between their […]
Abundance
Posted on September 7, 2021 Leave a Comment
Abundance is “an amount that is more than enough” according to the Cambridge Dictionary. Enough is ” as much as is necessary; in the amount or to the degree needed’. Wikipedia joins in and says that need is ‘something that is necessary for an organism to live a healthy life. Needs are distinguished from wants’. […]
Joyful in Sorrow
Posted on September 1, 2021 Leave a Comment
While chatting she asked the question, ‘Can you be both sad and grateful at the same time?’.It’s been percolating on the back burner ever since. Can I be sad and grateful together? Can I be joyful in sorrow? They seem diametrically opposed, but are they? Once upon a time I would have said a definite […]
Just in Time
Posted on August 18, 2021 Leave a Comment
Yep, we were definitely just in time! Just in time for our trip to Auckland to spend time with our kids before the country goes back into lockdown. Being grateful for things working out well… that hubby and I didn’t end up separated in different parts of the country, that we had this time together […]
What a Glorious Time! Pt. 4
Posted on August 6, 2021 Leave a Comment
Waking to another glorious day, I headed off with dogs all keen, to enjoy the morning sun on the freshly washed beach. That early morning sun on the beach is the elixir of life for me. I love it! However, it can be quickly drained away when rascally dogs don’t come when called. It is […]
What a Glorious Time Pt.3
Posted on August 5, 2021 Leave a Comment
Monday came up gray and cold. I guess it is winter after all. A very bitter southerly straight from Antartica. The locals were saying they had never seen it so cold. BUT, I had a dream and the show must go on. Surely us Tauponians could handle this?! I say ‘us’ because two painting buddies […]
What a Glorious Time Pt.2
Posted on August 4, 2021 Leave a Comment
The storm has passed and we are back at Thornton Beach. We’d packed up the day before so that we could leave early and get straight into it, but on arrival I had such a severe case of the munchies that, while my darling unpacked, I had the cooker out and cooked us up a […]
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