The Honeycomb Cowl that wasn’t

I bought the most amazing (and, admittedly expensive) hand-dyed yarn pack at Napier’s Knit August Nights back in August 2016. The yarn seller had knitted up a beautiful cowl as a sample in a Honeycomb pattern. I tried it on. It was […]

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Tenacity

Tenacity, persistence, perseverance, determination, stubbornness … whatever words you use to describe “hanging in there” and “sheer bloody-mindedness”, this would be used to illustrate it in the picture-dictionary! At Maraetotara Falls, Hawkes Bay, there is a gnarled and twisted totara literally growing […]

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Rain, rain, beautiful rain!

The rain has come at last, and for my land at least it is not a case of too little too late. Having had only three showers of rain in March (and then only 1 mm/0.12 in at a time), the ground […]

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Yes, I can!

These are very powerful words in my household, and recently I found myself writing them on a piece of paper and sticking them to my bedroom door where I could be reminded of them many times a day. In January 2020, I […]

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