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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Hello lovely family and friends! I will start off with art, and end with a personal well-being challenge! Of course, making art both challenges and boosts one’s well-being. Here are WIP shots from my second “Who would like some more ice?” painting,...

Hello lovely family and friends I hope you are keeping well wherever you live in our beautiful world? In the Southern hemisphere we are officially in autumn, while it is Spring for you Northerners. We have a Southerly blowing, which means chilly winds from the...

Hello lovely family and friends! Happy post-Easter. I hope you celebrated, thanked God, kissed your family and ate chocolate! I have almost recovered from the Easter weekend. My husband and I (plus other slaves) volunteered in the kitchen at an Easter Youth Camp,...

Hello lovely family and friends Greetings from chilly Wellington. It has recently been 12 degrees here which feels cold to me. I know, I know, all you arctic dwellers are feeling patronising right now, but I am nesh. (Google: Nesh is an English dialect adjective...