The Auckland Pride Festival – an annual celebration of gay, lesbian, transgender, bisexual and other people of alternative gender and/or sexuality – has grown to more than 80 events this year. We went to the opening of the Lady Love art exhibition at the lesbian Charlotte Museum on 1 February; great to catch up with old friends and meet new […]
A cautionary tale…
February 19, 2015 by Leave a Comment
Our HP All-in-one Desktop has suddenly died, without any warning-and it’s not even two years old. So we’re working from a laptop and web mail only. Thank goodness for Earthsong expert Grant, who has eventually found all the files (but no directories) and saved them on an external disk to be re-labelled and transfered to a new HDD. […]
Diverse Delights
January 18, 2015 by Leave a Comment
In this last week, we’ve enjoyed dance, food and drama from around the world. We went to the Okareka Dance Company’s Summer School final performance, exploring the theme Kiwi Ingenuity, by 15 talented secondary-school age students, coached in contemporary dance by Tane Mete and Taiaroa Royal. www.okareka.com On the way home, we stopped to eat […]
Summer at Earthsong
January 18, 2015 by Leave a Comment
We’ve enjoyed the last few summery weeks at Earthsong. Many families are away, no meetings or community meals have been scheduled. So we’ve had time to swim at Te Henga, to watch tennis and to be with friends. Steph and Annette took time off from their dairy farm at Whangarei Heads to stay a couple […]
Charmaine in Sydney
January 18, 2015 by Leave a Comment
My birth mother, Pat Tapper, turned 90 on 27 December 2014. I went to Sydney between Christmas and New Year to celebrate with my extended family there. Pat is in good physical health, but has memory loss. Mostly, she knows when she is surrounded by loving family members, and always holds her arms out for […]
Mr Turner – hilarious??
January 18, 2015 by Leave a Comment
We went to see Mr Turner, a film about Joshua Turner, the painter, which has been very positively reviewed. David Larsen of The Listener described it as “one of the funniest films I’ve seen this year” and as “hilarious”. What we saw was a film about a man, albeit a painter of genius, suffering Asperger’s […]
Summer Solstice Greetings to you all.
December 19, 2014 by Leave a Comment
The longest day is here, with huge lemon-scented magnolia blossoms… We will celebrate Summer Solstice with family and friends, at Earthsong. Tanya will harvest a bed of garlic, and we’ll be feasting on our new discovery – delicious blueberry-cashew ‘raw food’ cheese cake – plus savoury snacks and colourful summer salads… On Christmas Day we hope […]
Wonderful Wild West…
December 19, 2014 by Leave a Comment
It’s wonderful being Westies, with the Waitakere Ranges on our doorstep and its beaches half an hour’s drive away. We’ve just had a three day break at North Piha, in a comfortable old-fashioned holiday home, Tai Haruru, run by the Forest and Bird Society. We were totally surrounded by flowering pohutukawa, with tui hurtling through branches, kereru swooping around the house, birdsong […]
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