Aging is an extraordinary process, where you become free to be the person you always should have been – David Bowie.
I am now moved into my new flat. And I don’t want to move house again. Having said that, I haven’t taken my last breath yet, so there’s a good chance that my desire might not translate into reality. The last couple of house moves my bro and his wife – for whom I work …
Continue reading “I never want to move house again” – said for the umpteenth time.
Scott is my builder, and doer of all things that require tools and a bit of practical nous – something distinctly lacking in my own toolkit. I don’t consider myself entirely useless with a screwdriver and hammer, and I have even been gifted a sledgehammer by my sister¹, but the truth is I’m tool-challenged for …
There’s been some new things going on in my neighbourhood in recent months. I live fairly close to the Avon River, where much of the land alongside it got ‘red zoned’ after the 2011 earthquake. Land which was red zoned was deemed too badly damaged to make remediating it for building on again an economic …
Continue reading Fungi, chooks, shipping containers and coffee in my neighbourhood
Last Friday I met a fella named John. I met him quite unexpectedly as I was cutting through the lovely grounds of the local community house - a converted mansion - whose location has to remain secret for now (I’ll explain in a wee while). Being a nice autumn morning, I was walking the long …
New Zealand has a new public holiday – Matariki. Matariki is the Maori name for the constellation of stars also known as the Pleiades/the Seven Sisters/Messier 45. When it rises in the north-eastern skies in late May/early June , it signals to Maori that the New Year will begin. It was a very important time …
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I’m a Boomer. A Bad Boomer - because there is no other sort, according to popular rhetoric. I have mixed feelings about this. On one hand, I don’t feel like a bad Boomer, but I acknowledge the advantages that go with being a Boomer, and have taken advantage of the advantages. On the other hand, …
The weather report said it wasn’t going to be raining on the West Coast for a few days, so I hoofed it over there to visit Sis in Westport. Rain and the West Coast of the South island are inseparable. Rain, annoying though it might at times, is what makes the West Coast what it …
Happy New Year! What a year 2020 has been. I, like many others - I suspect - am crossing my fingers for 2021 to be better. I’m not sure if it’s my imagination, but the last few years seem to have ended with a much bigger collective sigh of relief, and a much bigger collective …
Continue reading Bringing in the new year with an attitude of gratitude
It’s that time again, when I look back on the year that was and do a write-up on it. This is ‘truth time’. I.e. the truth of what I both have and haven’t done, although what I have done is decidedly easier to write about. However, by doing that it may get me thinking about …
Sometimes I wish I was a gardener. Admittedly, it’s a fleeting wish, but occasionally it does flit across my mind. I love the look of a lovingly tended garden, whether wild, wacky, or manicured, but I don’t love being the one making it like that. Actually, I do have a wild garden, but it’s wild …
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