by Barbara Podmore | Jun 2, 2023 | Blog Post
Hello lovely family and friends When we arrived in New Zealand, we asked our local friends how to pay for using the bus service. “Easy as,” they said, “You go to the dairy and top up your Snapper.” Dairy, what dairy? You have to go out to pay at a cow farm to be able...
by Barbara Podmore | May 25, 2023 | Blog Post
Hello lovely family and friends! Thank you very much for all your kind comments on my beautiful website. Some of you have congratulated me as if a whole new world is opening up for me. Actually, I had a less glamorous website previously, I have been out there in the...
by Barbara Podmore | May 18, 2023 | Blog Post
Hello lovely family and friends, Greetings from wonderful Welly and welcome to my new website! Here I am leaping into the Century of the Fruit bat, no, I mean, the 20th Century, um, or is it the 21st Century? I lose track of these things. Anyway, Welcome! In my...
by Barbara Podmore | May 12, 2023 | Blog Post
Hello lovely family and friends Greetings from characterful Wellington. We have been here almost four years now. Sadly, we are getting more able to understand the Kiwi accent. Sadly, because it made life very interesting when we first arrived, trying to figure out...
by Barbara Podmore | May 6, 2023 | Blog Post
Use public transport! If you are actually able to do so without endangering life and limb. Some forms of public transport, in places that we know and love, do not promote longevity. Welly transport is generally safe and clean, but a bit unreliable at the moment as we...