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Apprenticed To My Mother
Walking Into Trouble
Dead Flies and Sherry Trifle
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My Father and Other Liars
Life In A Conversation
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Tag Archives: New Zealand
Kia Ora day ten – having a deco at Napier
Hands up how many of you have heard of Napier? Can you place it in New Zealand? And why was it a must visit on my itinerary? As with so much in the middle section of NZ the seismic activity … Continue reading
Posted in miscellany, New Zealand
Tagged 1931 earthquake, Art Deco, Frank lloyd Wright, Napier, New Zealand
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Kia Ora days eight and nine – trails and tribe’jubilations
Kia Ora said our guide/driver followed by hey and several other Maori words. Maori means life force and boy did he have that. Fr’instnce on the way back to Central Rotorua he had us singing ‘She’ll be coming round the mountain’ … Continue reading
Posted in miscellany, New Zealand
Tagged 1886, Buried village, Haka, Maori, mount tarawera eruption, New Zealand, pink and white terraces, Rotorua, Tamaki village, Tararewa, Tarawera trail, Te waiora
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Kia Ora: Day eight – and there shall be a day of rest.
Hmm, would someone tell the Lawyer please? I know I know. I’m lucky to be his companion. I’m only too aware that he asked all 917 ‘friends’ on facebook if they’d go with him. He even put a card in … Continue reading
Contrasting fortunes
Charli Mills continues to prompt us with a range of difficulties to overcome in our flash fiction. November 26, 2014 prompt: In 99 words (no more, no less) write a story using two objects, people or ideas that don’t go … Continue reading
Posted in flash fiction, miscellany, New Zealand, writing
Tagged flash fiction, Mary's story, New Zealand
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Kia Ora days three and four: a walk in the woods
Everyone we asked, when we said we were going to New Zealand, said ‘You must go to the South Island’. When we said we were going to visit both that said ‘Ah yes but spend most time in the South’. … Continue reading
Posted in New Zealand
Tagged Auckland, Cape reina, Fiordland, muri moti, New Zealand, sand surfing, Whangerai
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Kia-Ora days one and two glass bridges and a prickly pair
We made it. Me from London via Singapore and the Lawyer via LA and Tahiti from Lima. I brought us a mascot. We’re a wee bit dozy so decided on a walk around the Quay area. We found the university … Continue reading
Posted in art, buildings, food, miscellany, natural history, New Zealand, sculpture
Tagged Art, Auckland, Fashion, New Zealand, Sky Tower
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Another Millstone – Post Number 200
At my law firm we did annual appraisals. Of course we did. We were market leaders, a state of the art law firm. Even as far back as 1980. As a young associate solicitor I had my first in 1981. It … Continue reading
Posted in miscellany, New Zealand, travel
Tagged appraisals, Milestone, New Zealand, post 200
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