Sometimes you look and see a great time unfolding for your roadschooled/worldschooled child and can’t help smile right down to your soul. Last weekend was such a weekend for TJ. It started by finding some Conservation Zoologists modifying nesting boxes for the small blue penguins while wild camping around the edges of Wellington. TJ took off […]
Back on the North Island of New Zealand just before TJs 12th birthday. Lizzy’s flatmates were all gone for the weekend and offered us the run of the flat, thanks guys. We also got to park the truck just 2 doors down at the Newtown Bowling Club. Excellent! You know, sometimes it doesn’t hurt to […]
When I was younger, when we lived in Orkney, I thought reading was something that could be fun but I never had the time for it because of the boring books my school assigned for me, ones where I’d argue with the teacher about how ‘Jan’ was pronounced because it was a Swiss boy and […]
It looks like we are about ready to leave the South Island of New Zealand and head north again. As always there are more things that we would love to have done. That is for next time. Andrew has only a week and a half working the hop harvest while I have been woofing at […]
When I am in the middle of something great I just don’t have the time to write about it. Right after I am just numb and filled with awe. Later on I look at the photos and say, “Dang that was great”. Here is me writing about one of those great experiences from last year. […]
Before we had our first child, from the comfort of our own old brick flat, surrounded by rose bushes with the knowledge of a siberian refugee family renting the big old house we owned on the other side of town, we made a vow. The vow was to each other and to a loving higher […]
We arrived in Motueka and pulled the truck onto a field at Riverside Community in Lower Motuere. Really nice people here. Riverside is probably the oldest intentional community in New Zealand, being started by Methodist pacifists in 1941 and now operating as a multi-faith community on 500+ acres. Last weekend was the Riverside Music Festival. […]
I know you are cold. I know you probably have snow. I love snow. We love snow. I tell you it seems that most of the Christmas songs are about cold weather and snow. Here in the Southern Hemisphere it would be quite weird and probably a bit scary if we had snow on Christmas. […]
We are not moving much these days. The vineyard has said that they don’t need me anymore. Andrew is still working there doing the more physically draining job of wire lifting. As the plants are not larger and taller the job requires someone with a bit of height as well as strength. Andrew loves it. […]
I woke early in the day we were going to Indonesia. I made sure my backpack was packed and waited for the others to wake up as well. It was hot in India. It was only me and Mum, Gwennie and Priscilla. My dad and other 2 sisters were in Egypt. We were going to […]
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